Nick Johnson: Damn Cool Algorithms: Spatial indexing with Quadtrees and Hilbert Curves.
Carl Malamud: Intellectual Ventures, Google, The Internet Archive, and Public.Resource.Org Working Together To Make US Patent Database More Available. Good news for those of us who file patents for a living.
ZDNet: The importance of Sixth Sense going open source. “He has put paid to the canard that open source and innovation are incompatible, for all time.” Nice strawman, but open-sourcing something after the fact does nothing to address the claim that open source doesn’t create innovation.
Ars Technica: Blu-ray discs get Managed Copy; hardware support nonexistent. I’m trying to figure out what scarabs have to do with Blu-ray and failing. (Update: They’re dung beeetles.)
