Monika and Nicole on Lake Powell 

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RISC architectures (such as Mips, Alpha and PowerPC) provide a load-linked/store-conditional sequence of instructions for atomic updates.

Divided attention / In-car entertainment systems : "The CEA predicts about $547 million worth of car-entertainment devices will be sold by the end of 2002 by suppliers of after-market products, or equipment that is installed after a car is sold."

Monika lights up the sky in 2002 

FeedBurner - "Shows how to identify recent posts to your Blog with a HTML code snippet"

Reasonable and Non Discriminatory Licensing - encyclopedia article about Reasonable and Non Discriminatory Licensing. (Provided by the Free Online Encyclopedia): "One very successful area where RAND is in use is in the GSM GSM stands for Global System for Mobile Communications..."

Does a non-infringement opinion on a post-it note suffice to bar treble-damages?: "Knorr-Bresme Systeme v. Dana Corp and Haldex Brake -- Federal Circuit Overturns Adverse Inference Rule in Patent Cases. The rationale centers on the fact that the court wants to encourage candid opinions, warts and all. I other words, the court wants to encourage opinions that weigh the merits pro and con for infringment... and then permit those to be held as attorney-client privilege without applying a kind of 'anything-you-say-but-hide-can-be-used' rule."

Texas Instruments Unveils Industry's First 90nm Single-Chip Bluetooth Wireless Networking Solution for 2.5G and 3G Mobile Phones: "The BRF6300 is optimized to work with TIs OMAPTM processors and wireless terminal chipsets. It is also integrated into several complete reference designs with TIs OMAP processors and GSM/GPRS/WCDMA TCS cellular chipsets. "

United States Patent: 6,401,077: "The enabling system then retrieves from the source server the selected page description. The enabling system adds to the retrieved page description a user interface element that describes an action to be performed so that the additional behavior placing an order for the product..."

MS .NET Framework ..."XCOPY deployment"—meaning they could design, code, and debug on the development platform, and then simply copy their code to a staging server.

Now I know why I get so much junk mail Companies pay an average of $140 to acquire a new customer so the company doesn't want to lose you, particularly if you carry balances," says Consumer Reports Editor Margot Slade.

Ping? -- seldom does humor, software, China and ducks converge so well as this book review: Excellent, heart-warming tale of exploration and discovery. Using deft allegory, the authors have provided an insightful and intuitive explanation of one of Unix's most venerable networking utilities. Even more stunning is that they were clearly working with a very early beta of the program, as their book first appeared in 1933, years (decades!) before the operating system and network infrastructure were finalized. be sure and scroll down to picture of the yellow fuzzy duck

Infoshop News - Interview with TxtMob.com (Tad Hirsch, MIT Media Lab): "Because again TxtMob was one thing, but in addition to that you had all the regular messaging that people were doing. So, for example, I know that Sprint�s customers had this problem where they were getting messages many hours late, and I heard reports that AT&T�s network had very similar kinds of problems. "