Michael Calderone, blogging at the Politico, had some reaction from the Grey Lady on the ethics oopsie by a marquee columnist.

Wolfram|Apha, a new online tool, goes a step further than Wikipedia. It seems to want to become a computational Google, if I can put it that way.

From its intro:

Wolfram|Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.

Wolfram|Alpha aims to bring expert-level knowledge and capabilities to the broadest possible range of people—spanning all professions and education levels. Our goal is to accept completely free-form input, and to serve as a knowledge engine that generates powerful results and presents them with maximum clarity.

Here's a link to some Twitter chatter.

Heard this T Rex classic the other night and have decided to disseminate it to my audience of millions:

For minor amusement purposes, you might also want to check out the first 14 seconds of this version (it's for a German Top of the Pops program).