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Has "Fifth Generation Technology" really been trademarked? Kady O'Malley seems to believe so.

David Brin finds much to praise in Obama's latest State of the Union address. The rest of us might have missed the best part, if he's right.

Mark Zuckerberg puts his corporate foot in it again. Not without my permission you don't, boyo, and no matter what your lawyers say my signing the terms of service means, I still don't grant it! If the advertisers dealing with you want to quote me, they can just ask me directly and I will decide, case by individual case.

Closing note: Seems like this past week, I've become popular with spammers as a target hereabouts. I've deleted a spam reply a day on average for the last 5-10 days. Interesting.

This I do NOT believe:

At the risk of perverting a part of the legacy of Edward R. Murrow:

Shaving one's head in emotional support of cancer patients amongst their friends and/or family should not be grounds for anyone to be fired from their job.

Some days, I wish I'd done this for Dad in his last months. Reading the article in the link, I now wonder how some prospective employers would've reacted at interview time, as I was between day-jobs at that point back in the fall and winter of 2002.

(Granted, it's likely hard - possibly illegal - to come right out and ask a job candidate: "Skinhead or cancer in the family?" I'll have to ask some of my job-search assistance agency contacts about this to refresh my memory.)