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According to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the digg trademark is in opposition by Lucasfilm Entertainment Company’s game “The Dig”.

Opposition here:
http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=91175510

Viacom Inc and Joost™ (www.joost.com), the world’s first broadcast-quality Internet television service, announced today that Viacom will be a key content partner and will offer a full range of brands and programming for free to consumers on the innovative Joost distribution platform. Under the agreement, Viacom’s divisions – MTV Networks, BET Networks and Paramount Pictures – will provide television and theatrical programming on the Joost platform.

More at pressrelease:
http://www.viacom.com/view_release.jhtml?inID=10000040&inReleaseID=227591

Abdul Kareem Suleiman Amer was arrested by Egyptian authorities for posts on his blog that were considered to be anti-religious and insulting to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. If convicted, he will face up to eleven years in prison. He faces his third trial hearing on February 22, 2007, during which a verdict is expected to be delivered.

More info at wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kareem_Amer

Pipes is an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. Using Pipes, you can create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant.

Check it out at:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/

More info:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/01/photogalleries/frilled-shark/index.html

It started out with a co-operated gadgetblog between me and Jezper. And it ended with 5 published items and realization of the dullness of re-write already published content. It’s more or less impossible to compete with the bigboys of gadgetblogging, so what do you do? Yepp, if you can’t beat em – join em.

Gearpilot is now a syndicated rss aggregator which tracks all changes on the nets gadgetblogs. Using top-of-the-line technology (by me! ) its now possible for you to stay up to date with the, way to fast moving, gadget community.

http://www.gearpilot.com

So, now i’m cruising the Internet on 100mbit, on my home-connection … do i really need this big pipe? Oh well, at least those linux distros will take about 5 minutes to download now …

My current speed-record is 83.58 Mbit/s, which i’m pretty sure i could beat if i just got some better network-gear and a proper router.

I’m sure everyone has heard it already, but this really is a funny blonde joke:
Best Blonde Joke

A pair of Japanese scientists have, for the first time, photographed a live giant squid in the wild, one of the most mysterious creatures of the deep-sea.

The Japanese scientists led by Tsunemi Kubodera, from the National Science Museum in Tokyo, tracked the 25-foot long Architeuthis as it attacked prey nearly 3,000 feet deep off the coast of Japan’s Bonin islands.

‘We believe this is the first time a grown giant squid has been captured on camera in its natural habitat,’ said Kyoichi Mori, a marine researcher who co-authored a piece on the finding in the Royal Society Journal, a leading British biological publication.

Ever heard of the game World of Warcraft? It’s a massive multiplayer online game, basically hundred of thousands people playing against each other in a huge fantasyworld. The developers, Blizzard Entertainment, decided to create a new boss which infected a plague on nearby players, the plague was intended to stay within controlled areas, but managed to escape and infecting almost every player on the server(s).

Often the best parts of a videogame are moments you don’t see coming, and sometimes the developers can’t even anticipate them! Personally, i think this is absolutely great. This is an element of gameplay that even if unintended, which might not be the case, can have far-reaching consequences.

Blizzard has already released a patch which cured the world, unfortunately, it was limited to the game-world only.