• Most people think that Microsoft got by far the better end of the deal with Yahoo - partly because Yahoo didn't get an upfront payment. Still, the NY Times reports that the advertisers are happy. Well, if they're happy, then surely everyone is?
• Temperature data wants to be free. That's the arresting title of a post on Slashdot which points out - as we have from time to time at the Free Our Data campaign, but it's been hard to maintain the focus - that the UK government's Hadley Centre and University of East Anglia have refused access to the data used for their global climate averages and scientific studies. Until a copy leaked. To editorialise for a moment, not making the data available only helps the unhinged people who think there's a coverup over climate change calculation. This is one dataset which should be made freely available. Is it publicly funded? Yes. Why then keep it out of view of the public?
• We've got another Technology supplement out. Oh yes. Read it in full (or buy the physical thing and read it in the bath, though not shower.) I'd just like to commend two headlines from the physical version: "Evony and irony" on one of the letters (about our Evony story) - come on, that works on so many levels - and "Storm in an AT&T cup", over the blocking earlier this week of 4chan by AT&T. You think there's no need for sub-editors? Think again.
• And another story from the section to mull over: Do you need a TV licence to watch TV on your computer? The answer's not obvious.
