I would have said “only in Marin” if I still lived there, but a Kona couple has received \$30,000 in a wrongful arrest settlement for being busted for growing pot. They were held for 8 hours. Nice work if you can get it.

 Predictive Algorithms for Browser Support of Habitual User Activities on the Web  on [Microsoft Research Publications]

Yeah, I'm sure most people will happily trade privacy for help browsing known sites and clicking on links.

I have never registered a piece of shareware faster than I did this morning after trying out Sciral Consistency. This is a to-do manager for repetitive tasks that can occur within a range of days (for instance, you need to do the bills twice a month, but an Outlook repetitive …

This is something I'd love to see running Tablet XP: a table whose surface is a touch-screen display running at 1600 x 1200. via \<a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/11/24.html%23a8707" ">Scoble.

Reuters reports that a pod of dolphins protected swimmers from an attacking great white shark off the coast of New Zealand's North island:

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Nice story, but I’m not sure I believe it.

Casey Chesnut, who’s my favorite Tablet PC programmer because he does all this stuff apparently without realizing that it’s supposed to be hard, has written a neural network based character recognizer for the Tablet PC ([via]{style="FONT-STYLE: italic"} [Tech Blender]). He normalizes an ink stroke in x …

Time magazine today named the Intel Centrino mobile technology wireless surfboard as one of the Coolest Inventions of 2004…
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::: {.Section1} There’s an early Simpsons where Mr. Burns somehow comes to believe that Homer is a fellow predatory capitalist. When he asks Homer how to improve the working environment, Homer says that he’d like the fish sticks in the cafeteria to come with more tartar sauce. Burns marvels …

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