Reforming U.S. Patent Policy – Council on Foreign Relations:
The conversation on American competitiveness is often intertwined with the conversation on innovation. The liberalization of trade and the increasing influence of emerging markets such as China and India have meant that U.S. innovation is now competing globally. This global competition has raised awareness and concerns not only that our trading partners are lax on patent enforcement, but also that our patent system may not be optimally suited to compete on the global economic stage.

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This is one of the most important debates going on in our world and this report makes a substantive contribution.

Doom on the $100 Laptop:
Who needs textbooks when it’ll run Doom? Engineers from the One Laptop Per Child Project have posted videos of themselves playing the videogame Doom on the new children’s laptop.

Up next: the Darfur game?
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had to see this coming…. from education project to edutainment project to…..

Ride that Line:
There’s cool little app that seems to have invaded office cubicles everywhere – Linerider. It’s incredibly simple to use but the results can get as complicated as the limits of your imagination – and the physics of the thing is what really makes it a fun toy.

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I’ve posted it before, but now I’m reposting it from gga, line rider is nifty.

games1.org has other cool games.

Step-by-Step IPP based Print Server using CUPS:
This tutorial describes how to install a Linux print server with CUPS.
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