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Aug 07 2007 12:00am EDT

Daily Brew

InformationWeek: Linux has yet to be sued by a patent holder and probably never will be now that Google has joined IBM and Oracle and other tech heavyweights in protecting it from legal charges of patent infringement while they themselves swap and trade in Linux patents. Ah, the beauty of open source!

Flickr.com: Flickr user Kentbyte gets into the democratic process by making the choosing of a candidate easier for the rest of us. Check out his chart of who supports what when it comes to hot-button issues like Iraq, Immigration and Energy & Oil.

Shield of Achilles: According to this blog, there are still 23-34 World War I veterans alive today who participated in the Great War, to end all wars.

UK Telegraph: David Blaine, one of your secrets is out! Physicists "prove" that there's no magic, only science, behind levitation.

Spinner.com: "Hello, Darkness, my old friend" is one of Spinner's 25 best opening lyrics of all time.

--Andrea Chalupa


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