A YouTube Lawsuit! Gee, didn’t see that one coming.

YouTube.com, a magical place where anyone can upload and tag any movie they want with no screening process.

Read that sentence again if you don’t see where some people in the public may have a problem with this.

According to an article on ZDNet, a journalist and helicopter pilot are suing due to videos on YouTube.com that violate a copyright.

Now, I’ve always been of the mindset that it’s not YouTube’s fault if people violate their policies by uploading illegal content, but when it comes to the interwebs it seems that the courts will usually side with the copyright holder in these cases…then again, I don’t try to keep up with intricacies of the court system and therefore am no one to judge (no pun intended). I’d just hate to see YouTube go by the way of the dodo, it really is a great site and a load of fun.

I absolutely love AJAX. In fact, I’m going to be speaking at Oracle OpenWorld, a presentation entitled “Putting the Express back into Oracle Application Express with AJAX.”

I also like free. This article caught my eye today, as it’s talking about several free online courses over the period of three months taught by Sang Shin, Technology Architect for Sun Microsystems, that will provide some major lessons in how AJAX works with various technologies. You can view the syllabus here.

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Have you been trying to convince friends, family, co-workers, and asylum caretakers that you’re psychic with no luck? Maybe this is the program for you! According to an article on Silicon.com, new studies are using three dimensional virtual worlds to gauge telepathic ability in humans by playing virtual ‘guessing games.’

Personally, I’m hoping one of two things will come out of the studies…1) They find that humans have extremely high telepathic abilities and begin research to discover how to harness it, or 2) They use these studies to create incredibly realistic and all encompassing video games. World of Warcraft II anyone?