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Some scientists in Russia have figured out how to use all of that blood thrown away by slaughter houses all the time. They have a process to turn blood into imitations of foods like coffee, chocolate, and milk. They apparently do not differ in taste from the originals and they can be metabolized twice as fast… hmm.

Microsoft was suing Linspire, a company making a Linux distribution aimed at being a full Windows replacement, over their use of the name ‘Lindows’. Microsoft didn’t like how much ‘Lindows’ resembled ‘Windows’. During some of the ensuing court battles some judges started to question whether or not ‘Windows’ is even a viable trademark AT ALL. For instance, the original Macintosh was out before Windows 1.0 and it already had visual screen representations of applications and folders that were referred to as ‘windows’. It looks like Microsoft has decided to decline to follow up that line of debate any further and has settled with Linspire fairly nicely. Score one for the little guy?

The RIAA claims that record sales are down 7% since last year and claims it is due to filesharing and is using that information to lobby for legislation that would help them maintain their position. However, according to Soundscan, the company that tracks sales of albums at the register, music sales are up by almost 10% since last year. The discrepancy seems to be the result of some creative accounting and some blatant attempts to manipulate the situation. Tssk tssk.

Microsoft’s own Slate online magazine is now recommending that people switch to the Mozilla Firefox web browser. They mention security as well as usability concerns. Seems like as good a time as any to me!

You know those chain emails that say Microsoft or AOL or Intel (or all three) are testing some sort of new email tracking technology and will pay you money for every person you forward the email to? If you’ve been using email for any length of time, you’ve probably seen it once or twice (or more times) and/or some variations of it. Well, you probably know it’s fake and now you can learn the history behind it. Pretty interesting… they track it all the way back to the originator. It is now considered the most active chain email of all time.

Due to the gradual warming and melting of the ice covering most of the Arctic Ocean, researchers are hurrying to explore the icey waters as quickly as possible. In one especially remote isolated segment of water called the Canada Basin, they expect to find creatures that have not interacted with the rest of the world’s oceans for millions of years. Wow!

John Kerry appears to have a very talented daughter. She is a film director and is pictured at the Cannes film festival.

UPDATE: I changed the link since the Yahoo one expired.