On a recent Delta flight (I believe we were on a B737-800), the seat-back entertainment system needed to be rebooted, so everybody on the plane got to watch the startup messages scroll by. It was a Linux system booting with Redboot, running on a single-processor system (to judge from the single Tux graphic on boot). I was entertained by the warning that the kernel was being tainted by non-GPL code.

Not content to tell you how to find out what has been claimed as a trademark, we’ll also point you at someone who’s paying way more attention than seems entirely called-for to new claims and posting his findings in Trademork.

Putting the band back together? Get your charts here.

My librarian sent me this review of math-related literary works some time ago. I’m putting it here so I don’t have to keep it in my inbox.

I had my first mouth guard related dream: “This bread is terrible!”

Earlier, someone in the office was playing some jazz that sounded uncannily like the opening music in Manos: The Hands of Fate. That is all.

Do you like Penn & Teller? Do you like the book World War Z? Perhaps you will enjoy this short film.

Ok, I clicked on the link to find a goofy web site for a project, but a spray dispenser for pancake batter is actually a really good idea: because you can make a single pancake just for yourself every morning for weeks!

Airborne, the anti cold preparation, has not admitted that it can’t actually prevent or treat colds, but is now refunding money! That sure took a while! So one only has to live through 9 years of coworkers enthusing about a cold nostrum with no possible mechanism to do what it says it does. Unfortunately, I think homeopathy is still protected from legal action for ineffectiveness by grandfather clause.