Another patent story I missed

Posted on November 17, 2005 by acb

OK – I only found it after the deadline. But some idiot in the US Patent Office has approved one for “a flying saucer which depends on antigravity.” In a way, that’s almost more shocking than patents on hyperlinks.

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4 Responses to Another patent story I missed

  1. Jonathan Lundell says:
    November 17, 2005 at 7:49 pm

    That problem with bad character encoding on article pages but not on the main page continues to show up. The dash on this page is a case in point, and I’m seeing it in other articles as well.

    Now if only I could get my flux modulation controller working….

  2. acb says:
    November 17, 2005 at 9:16 pm

    No — that’s my fault. It’s a cut and paste thing, though the dash should really have been caught. I’ll have another look at the macro that does the posting.

  3. Jonathan Lundell says:
    November 17, 2005 at 11:19 pm

    The links for the new test posts don’t work, fwiw.

  4. acb says:
    November 18, 2005 at 7:02 am

    I nknwo. I took them down, as boring, once I had checked it all worked.

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