The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid. -- Art Spander Group 5 likely to disconnect $90m Telstra deal Telstra is set to lose its $90 million outsourcing contract with the federal government’s Group 5 agencies in the wake of a serious security breach involving the loss of backup tapes from the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (PMC). On Branding and Copyright--Open Source For Entrepeneurs Grant, got a link for TNN - it's an article about copyright and branding of open source software, which I thought you might be interested in - Kris Mac Supercomputer Just Got Faster The first supercomputer made from a cluster of Macs is on track to become the world's third-fastest machine, according to the latest test results. Leander Kahney reports from the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference in Santa Clara, California. I, Cringely: Catch the Wave: Why the Next Big Wave of Computing Might Be Inspired by Bees The size is smaller, but the scope is bigger, with the result that I believe a startup in St. Louis, MO, called Tsunami Research, which is taking the idea of distributed computing about as far as anyone can imagine. Sun delivers yet another shot at Earth As Earth's magnetic field weathered a strong solar shock wave this week, the sun unleashed another powerful flare that could herald more geomagnetic storms on Thursday. 'Smart' Wings Made Pterosaurs Agile Flyers Scientists have used CAT scans, a staple of modern hospitals, to peer inside the heads of extinct reptiles known as pterosaurs, the first flying vertebrates to emerge during the age of the dinosaurs. The findings, published today in the journal Nature, indicate that a specialized brain and inner ear structure allowed the creatures to fly and hunt down prey successfully. World Beard and Moustache Championships This. Is. Wrong. Plain Wrong. (C) Shouting Red Goanna Inc. A wholly subsidiary of Screaming Blue Wombat Inc. / Avenging Green Seahorse Industries