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Because I am very pro-patent reform and believe that software patenting has, in general, been very badly handled up until now, reading this made me smile.

Happy Halloween!

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Some of the costumes at the School of Information Science's Halloween party are good indicators of who's pissed off the librarians this year. Last year someone came in a costume made of vacuum tubes (the Internet, as imagined by Ted Stevens). This year we had a McCain, a Joe the Plumber and two Sarah Palins.

Other interesting costumes included:

Ugly Betty, with a loud Guadalupe poncho
A lolcat
Future Hiro
A Duracell battery
The Fourth Doctor (but with the Tenth Doctor's sonic screwdriver)

See any interesting costumes this Halloween?