NBC May Sue Tivo for iPod and Sony PSP Plans

Despite the fact that it is legal to record free TV broadcasts on your VCR, DVD recorder, and Tivo, there are rumblings at NBC that they might sue Tivo for allowing those same episodes to be recorded on portable devices, namely the newest iPod and Sony's PSP.

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Rethinking Autism - Evolutionary Sociology research paper by Elizabeth Ross

Elizabeth Pyle Ross, relative of Rick Ross (founder of The Java Lobby) has published a multimedia research paper on rethinking autism.

Paper introduces concept of some forms of autism being a phenotype bestowing diversity to the human species. This is at odds with the conventional view of regarding it only as a disease in need of a cure.

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Firefox Canvas based First Person Shooter!

I just spotted this over on digg.com so I thought I would try it out. It works great.

Canvas is a new tag that is being supported by Mozilla, Safari,and Opera (plus emulators in Flash) to draw bitmaps via javascript. This site is a First Person Shooter game that uses the canvas tag. It's quite cool that you can do this sort of thing even with the small amount of drawing functions canvas provides.

People will probably want to start getting on the ball with updating their browsers to use the new version. To use the new generation of browsing things, you either need to be using the latest version of Mac OS X - or, if you use MS-Windows, Firefox 1.5 (currently RC 3 but the final version is expected out around November 29).

This is just a taste of what will no doubt be coming down the pike in 2006. Once more technical folks grasp how to use CANVAS element of HTML/XHTML, there will be no stopping them. Finally, they can start making fancy-looking, interactive applications without all the bookmarking problems that Flash presents.

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