Likening this to the scopes trial is disingenuous and whoever made the correlation first (I heard it on NPR this morning) doesn't know their history.

First off, scopes LOST the trial: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_Trial#End_of_the_trial.

Second, the trial was about "did scopes teach evolution" (which violated the Butler act) not "is evolution true". Now, Clarence Darrow did try to bring in evidence for evolution, but it was disregarded because it was irrelevant.

Linux users: play quake live I incidentally just tried it out on my ubuntu box last night. Pretty impressive for being browser based.

If you want us to stay out of the schools, stop funding the schools with tax dollars and let us use our tax money to send our kids to our own private schools. Sound fair? Our small, private, Christian schools outperform your public schools by an order of magnitude the way it is. >Nobody expects the preacher to give equal time to Darwin on Sunday. Again, our religion isn't (and never will be if we have anything to say about it) funded by taxpayer dollars.

... a stripped down, half baked version of dropbox Microsoft: going tomorrow where the rest of the world has been for years.

They are going to turn a regular apple usb mouse into a phone?

I think that the big reason software is moving toward the cloud is that the SAAS business model is much more friendly than the traditional buy-it-once-use-it-forever desktop app model for a couple of reasons. Not to say that there aren't advantages of the other way, but I can understand why companies want to move toward the web as a platform. 1) You control the machines you are updating. No need to worry about rolling out patches. 2) If you test against IE7, you can be certain that your app will work in the vast majority of cases. You don't have to worry about .net framework versions, 1000 different versions of JRE or if they have applied all their windows updates. 3) You don't have to worry about selling upgrades or extending the maintenance agreement every year to keep the bottom line healthy. Either the company pays up every billing cycle or get their accounts suspended. 4) You don't have to build in license key management or worry about companies making more installations than they have licenses for.