• Microsoft is breathing a quiet sigh of relief today, after an American appeals court stayed the injunction that would have seen it have to stop selling Word. No word on whether Clippy has been similarly resurrected.
• More legal stuff! It's been a busy couple of weeks for those involved in Google Books settlement, but expect a flurry of activity today as the deadline for filing legal positions arrives. Latest twists? Google roped in a number of groups to say that digitising books was good for the disenfranchised readers of the world and the Authors Guild launched a scathing attack on Amazon.
• Friday comes again, which has got to be full of win - wherever you look at it from. I'm going to leave you for the weekend with this brilliant video of the history of visual effects, via Kottke. Worth geeking out to.
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