Swine Flu 2009 Epidemic Map on Google

Apparently USA media outlets are neglecting to include the word “emergency” from the World Health Organization’s press release about the spread of Swine Flu.

I guess check this daily and decide for yourself how bad it is:

swine flu map on google maps (replaced with better map 5/2)

ps. Tamiflu can pretty much stop it from having symptoms more than a cold but a full treatment costs $100 plus a doctor’s office visit to get the prescription, so good luck to those without insurance like me… btw in India it’s only $60 and they have a generic version coming out for $30 but you won’t likely see it in the USA because corporations need their profits no matter how ill you are

Apple claims it invented and owns automatic software updates

I don’t care how much you love your mac, Apple is just as evil as Microsoft:

June 1995: Method and apparatus for automatic software replacement

Software patents are asinine and should not be legal.
I hope someone easily proves prior art and makes Apple waste their profits from overpriced hardware on patent/legal fees. The only reason why this really matters right now is Apple has started to threaten developers like the W3C

WordPress 2.8 might break login compatibility (again)

Remember how they changed the login cookie in WordPress 2.5 ?

Then they realized they got the security model wrong so they changed it again in 2.6 causing more backward compatibility problems. (then they finally added HttpOnly in 2.7)

So since it’s all working/stable now, guess what, they are tampering with it again:

First ever TalkPress powered website?

Unless I missed an announcement somewhere,
I think I’ve found the first ever TalkPress powered website:

http://ask-the-expert.health.com/

Looks really nice. I believe it quietly went live in the middle of March.

TalkPress is essentially Automattic hosted bbPress forums,
just like what WordPress.com is to WordPress blogs.
(it uses WordPress.com global logins/cookies)

Matt first mentioned TalkPress a year ago.

update: Yup, I did indeed miss an announcement, here it is:
http://watershedstudio.com/blog/2009/03/healthcom-on-talkpress-vip/