via Gizmodo:

Here’s a sad one: the Google Maps car took out a baby deer, and it recorded the entire process for all Google Maps users to see. For shame, Google Maps car!
As you follow the street view scene down Five Points Road in Rush, NY, you can see the deer run out in front of the car, get hit and then see it on the side of the road before the car pulls over. And that’s the end of the Street View data for Five Points Road.

My question is, they …

So, I was reviewing access logs for a server I maintain, and I noticed some incoming links to some of my images from a site I wasn’t familiar with. I did a little investigating and it turned out someone was hotlinking to some of my images.
The image is a simple VMware diagram that is available on the VMware website, but they felt the need to not only rip it from my site, but to link directly to it on my site, costing me additional bandwidth and server load.
So this is …

via Slashdot:
Kailash Nadh writes “The Internet archive, which has been storing snapshots of millions of webpages since 1996 has been sued by the firm Harding Earley Follmer & Frailey, Philadelphia. The firm was defending Health Advocate, a company in suburban Philadelphia that helps patients resolve health care and insurance disputes, against a trademark action brought by a similarly named competitor. In preparing the case, representatives of Earley Follmer used the Wayback Machine to turn up old Web pages – some dating to 1999 – originally posted by the plaintiff, Healthcare …