- ‘Neglect’ of codebreakers’ HQ - BBC news reporting on a call to save Bletchley Park has gone out from the UK’s computer scientists. More than 100 academics have signed a letter to The Times saying the code-cracking center and crucible of the UK computer industry deserves better.

- From many news reporting sites in the UK comes a story I’ve gotta get this one off my chest, it’s not exactly geeky but it’s women in bras. Ladies, scientists are reporting that badly fitting bras can permanently damage your boobs.

- Yahoo Not Only Shutting Music Store, But Orphaning DRM Buyers. I learned my lesson when I got burned from MSN Music and their DRM’d songs when I tried importing them into my Zune. Please, for god’s sake people, STOP BUYING DRM’D MUSIC. Get your MP3s from Amazon that are not associated with any user, no digital restrictions.

- Former Employees of Google Prepare Rival Search Engine. Oh yes, this is a hoot, sign me up. Husband and wife team (him a Stanford Prof, her a former GOOG search architect) flipped the switch and turned on Cuil. It’s being billed as a bigger, faster and better engine in every way. GOOG just topped 1 Billion pages indexed last week BTW.

- By Mike Musgrove of the Washington Post: “Among all the new applications I’ve downloaded to my iPhone this month, it seems that there’s something else new tucked in that I wasn’t counting on: bugs.”

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