Yep, this is 101 - "Ceeelebrate good times, come on!" ;)

Wired has a nice summary of Google's services and their potential and threats to competitors: Who's Afraid of Google? Everyone.
One interesting bit of information from it: "Within hours of the Base bombshell, eBay's market value dropped by almost $2 billion."
Base is Google's new service, that let's people submit items to the search engine.

The first thing I found out after waking up was, that there are americans who dislike their government enough to start a second declaration of independence. Starting the Second Vermont Republic certainly has something cute to it.
Even better is the plan of the Free State Project to gather 20,000 people to move to New Hampshire with the goal of 'taking over' the state whose license plates read "Live free or die".
Perhaps this idea could be enhanced for the finish people to gain control over the Republic of Karelia without war? ;)

.. and that is a little worrying. Usually they answer very quickly. I hope, I didn't piss them off - because then mailing them would have had the total opposite effect of what was intended.

Sony got a permanent place in the hall of fame of legal evil: Sony DRM on Groklaw
"I don't care, what people say about me, but they should get my name right!" - Promise: We will never forget you, Shony! :)