“The industry that makes deca and PBDEs is freaking out because they lost so severely in Washington state and other states will follow […] It really is a message from Washington state and policymakers that we won’t accept chemicals that build up in our bodies and our children.” [via]
“By the time those lobbyists were done talking, it sounded like ODF (Open Document Format, the free and open format used by OpenOffice.org and other free software) was proprietary and the Microsoft format was the open and free one.” [via]
“Since the human-chimp split about 6 million years ago, chimpanzee genes can be said to have evolved more than human genes, a new study suggests.” [via]