Software Patent Applications: Peer Review

How can one guarantee the blindness in this case?

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office begins an unprecedented experiment this week that will allow you (yes, you!) to review software patent applications. The USPTO is hoping the wider community of programmers and engineers will do a better job of spotting bad claims and thereby prevent innovation-killing legal tussles. Read in the spectrum

http://spectrum.ieee.org/jun07/5275

LED Based Sand Timer

In the past, people had no access to atomic or electronic precision clocks, so they used sand timers and other things (maybe just counting their eye blinks even before that). Now we have presice electronic timing elements and LEDs, and we are making sand timers with LEDs, now which way we are headed, forward or backward. Clecik belo to see it (or buy it if you wish)

http://livesciencestore.com/56833.html

I am not at all againt this though, I am just aksing

Attention Students: Semester in Sea

I like that, and for 17 to 30 KUSD ? ! wow, a whole semseter in sea
Let us "see" what we are going to "see". Cleck he link for slide show

http://news.com.com/2300-1033_3-6190123-1.html?tag=ne.gall.pg