Recently a video game archive was opened in the United Kingdom not only to store old video games but also to preserve video gaming culture. The project is a partnership between a university and National Media Museum in Bradford which will also be housing the gathered pieces.

I don’t mean Internet in the sense of a global network which can connect every person, but a market completely based on open standards and supported by open source software, of which no entity has complete control. Every company will be able to compete in such a market and the users would not be locked into any certain companies technology.

The RepRap (= Replicating Rapid-prototyping) is like a 3 dimensional printer, instead of printing ink on paper it actually creates 3D objects. The current version of the RepRap is capable of creating objects out of plastics only (such as Polycarbonate or Polypropylene) but future versions are planned to be able to use multiple materials to print even more complex objects and assemble them into a finished product.

Yesterday I was at PINC.9, it was an inspiring and interesting event. The subjects of the speakers were very diverse but all of them had something interesting to say.

The university of Washington has released a game in which users can fold proteins and help researchers better understand proteins and perhaps find cures for HIV/AIDS, cancer, Alzheimer’s or help develop better processes to turn plants into biofuel.

OOXML (stands for Office Open XML and XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language) is created by Microsoft as an open standard for office documents. They decided to do this in response to a governments and government organizations demanding the use of open standard office documents, which would exclude Microsoft Office as it uses its own proprietary document format.

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