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Peter Troxler — Thu, 06 May 2010 13:16:12 +0000

Is this a bad sign for BP’s clean-up efforts in the Gulf of Mexico? Reading this report on the Beeb website, the message is all too clear:

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Meisterleistung der ETH

Peter Troxler — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:44:23 +0000

Es ist ein drittes Max-Frisch-Tagebuch veröffentlicht worden. Konnte man ja schon vor längerer Zeit im Sumpf des deutschen Feuilletons lesen. Heute erst wird bekannt, welche Mühen Herausgeber und das Max-Frisch-Archiv auf sich genommen haben müssen: “Das Tagebuch wurde 2009 in einem nicht zugänglichen Teil des Max Frisch-Archivs an der ETH Zürich entdeckt.” Vermutlich haben sie kurzerhand den nicht zugänglichen Teil des Archivs mit dem Large Hadron Collider des CERN als Parallelwelt simuliert. Oder so ähnlich.

Patent Humour by Halliburton Energy Services Inc.

Peter Troxler — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:25:51 +0000

Some while ago, Haliburton Energy Services, Houston, filed the following patent nr. 20080270152:

Patent Acquisition and Assertion by a (Non-Inventor) First Party Against a Second Party (i.e. trolling)

Methods for a first party to acquire and assert a patent property against a second party are disclosed. The methods include obtaining an equity interest in the patent property. The methods further include writing a claim within the scope of the patent property. The claim is written to cover a product of the second party where the product includes a secret aspect. The methods further include filing the claim with a patent office. The methods sometimes include offering a license of the patent property to the second party after the patent property issues as a patent with the claim. The methods sometimes include asserting infringement of the claim by the second party after the patent property issues as a patent with the claim. The methods sometimes include negotiating a cross-license with the second party based on the assertion of infringement of the claim, where under the cross-license the first party obtains a license to an intellectual property right from the second party. The methods sometime include attempting to obtain a monetary settlement from the second party based on the assertion of infringement of the claim.

Halliburton Troll Patent Filing

Hilarious, thanks to Jonathan Schwartz for digging it up.

The Eighth Untold Lie about Aberdeen….

Peter Troxler — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 11:38:36 +0000

“A CONTROVERSIAL bid by Aberdeen City Council to become the first local authority in Scotland to outlaw begging from its streets, has been rejected by the Scottish Executive.” (Scotsman)

The initiator of the bid, a certain Mr. Greig (LibDem … reflect on that abbreviation!), sees one of the main reasons for beggars to frequent Aberdeen City Centre at night time being that “people who are drunk come out of the pubs and clubs and feel very generous to humanity in general” (so he told the Scotsman). Any regular punter would, however, welcome this development, since traditionally generosity to humanity in Aberdeen used to express itself in attacks of the more violent kind on innocent passers-by.

(Via The Scotsman – Scotland – Aberdeen, full article here.)