Here's significant media coverage following up on the progression of the lawsuit that is taking on Google, Yahoo!, bloggers, and essentially the Internet. Here's the background to this story as covered by Slashdot.

Many bloggers like Michael Geist are standing up to those who would bully political (and other) bloggers. Mark is one being sued.

S.B. kindly demonstrates how a clueless commenter can unleash a can of worms if there is a libel-chiller in the pack reading (with a lawyer on speed-dial).

If you've EVER left a comment about a Canadian on your blog, you could be sued. Scary stuff, eh? Now please leave a comment about how stupid the law is right now in Canada.

So, where do you think this is all going to bottom out?

A bit early, but I'll award it to MouseR already...

Normally I'm amazed at how quickly Wikipedia is updated to reflect breaking news -- I was surprised to see that their article on Qwest still doesn't mention the new CEO who was announced nearly a full day ago!,P>

If any contributors are looking for a chance to jump in...

Giant statue of Hadrian found.

The Romans definitely knew a thing or two, no?

Speculation about Barry Bonds' use of steroids aside, biomechanics expert Michael Witte discusses another edge he may have: mechanical advantage from the protective gear on his elbow. (A device illegal for most players.) Readers disagree, as does the maker of the device; Witte responds.

Someone with points, please give Farmer Tim the +5 he deserves!

Blogger Carl Zimmer wondered if any of his readers had tattoos associated with their research or scientific enthusiasms. Terrifyingly, they sure do: atoms, animals, ATP, Necker cubes. The renaming of transuranium elements probably takes on new importance when you have a periodic table tattooed on your forearm!

Dhalka226: "And people here should be some of the "experts" on the license."

GPL Apostate: "The only thing people here are 'experts' on is flaming each other."

You'd say ripping John Carmack over a (supposed) GPL violation is absurd, but this is the site where someone once flamed one of his comments on a story about graphic cards! Meanwhile, email from a management professor:

<<questions one.doc>>

The original set was sent in wordperfect; I have since learned many of you don't know what that is.

Woo Suk Hwang's career swung from fame over his lab's claim of the first stem cells from a cloned human embryo to humiliation when the results were found to be fake. New research at Harvard on Hwang's cells has found that they are actually parthenogenic lines derived from eggs -- perhaps a more important and difficult achievement than what he had been claiming!

One of the Subversion heads received a bill from the Mathematical Association of America for $0.00. Naturally, he took the opportunity to send them a check for e^(i*pi)+1, which went tragically uncashed. Adding to the fun, it was check number 1729! (I'd provide clarification, but if you don't laugh at this as written, an explanation won't help...)

Imperial College astrophysics grad student Brian May is about to defend his thesis Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud after a hiatus of several decades to play guitar with Queen. He finished collecting his final data at the Canary Islands observatory this week.

Researchers at Northwestern University have combined the physics of gecko foot adhesion and the chemistry of mussel glue to create a "geckel" adhesive. The compound works in and out of water and can last through 1000 apply/release cycles. More detail at C&E News, paper in Nature.

I had to laugh at this:

Cheap domestic labor was another unexpected perq of living in Hong Kong. I had a full-time, live-in maid, who had a three-room suite to herself behind the kitchen. When I was working under deadline pressure, I would call my maid, have her cook dinner, pack it up, and bring it to school. She would wait while I ate dinner, and then take the dishes home. At home, my dirty clothes would vanish, only to reappear washed and folded. I had clean sheets on my bed every day. My apartment was spotless. Fresh-squeezed orange juice for breakfast. You can sleep an extra fifteen minutes while your tub is being filled. When I had a date over for dinner, I could say after dessert, ``Don't worry; the maid will get the dishes.'' This is apparently an extremely romantic thing to say.

Here at MIT, I scrub my own bathtub, buy my own groceries, take out my own garbage, and wash my own dishes. When I'm under deadline pressure, which is always, I eat delivery pizza, not curried shrimp and mangoes.

Also:

HKUST is a tech school, like MIT or Georgia Tech. CUHK and HKU, in contrast, are general universities, e.g. Duke or harvard. HKUST admitted its first freshman class in 1990 or 1991. The campus is out in Clear Water Bay, a beautiful location in Kowloon next to the movie studio where they make Jacky Chan movies (so your hacking can occasionally be interrupted by enormous on-set explosions from some firefight in a forthcoming action adventure epic).

The recently discovered fluorescent purple frog...