Archive 23. July 2008

Drivers in the EPO trap - "After an agreement between the World Anti-Doping Agency WADA and the Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche, this molecule was incorporated into the third generation of the blood doping agent Erythropoietin (EPO), which can be detected in doping controls." - smart!

Method and apparatus for creation and maintenance of database structure - a patent. On lists. In a database. From 2005. And now someone explain to me where the great innovation lies, and why we so desperately need software patents. Don't we already have enough trolls under the bridges, do we also need this shit? (and yes, the company that has this great patent is now suing web companies that store lists for users in databases)

Methods for tying knots in ropes - because I thought, just search for "tie your shoelaces". No shoelaces found right away, but a patent for knots. In ropes. So there are also crazy patents outside of software ...

Objective Caml Plugin for Xcode - unfortunately not yet with support for Intel CPUs.

Tetris - in sed ... (I can't think of anything else to say)