The patent meltdown we've been warning about is coming home to Web designers. It's virtually impossible to work with patent-holders like Eolas who don't market products and don't have customers, but we can hit other patent abusers in the pocket-book, and not let up until they use their power in Washington to change the law about software and business process patents. In other words, we are not powerless. [Scripting News]  

Future Cars: Audi Le Mans and Porsche Carrera GT [I4U :: Future Technology News]  

Salvador Dalí, the outrageous Spanish artist, considered Walt Disney a compatriot in subversive art. They tried to make a film together but shelved the project. Now, the Disney studio is reviving the very un-Disneyesque work 57 years later. By Jason Silverman. [Wired News]  

I've never spent much time tethered to an Exchange Server, other than on an experimental basis, so I'd forgotten -- or never knew -- that Outlook contacts Exchange on TCP port 135. That is, of course, the same port that Blaster has lately been partying on with wild abandon. I'd also heard that some ISPs had begun blocking 135, on the grounds that it's more trouble than it's worth. As this document from Cox High Speed Internet notes: ... [Jon's Radio]