Thursday Miscellany!!! | #Korea #Russia #Google #Homeopathy #Cubs #Linux

• When the United States sends two nuclear bombers from Nebraska to Korea and back for a training exercise, you can be sure that this was not simply a training exercise. This was, in fact, textbook battleship diplomacy. So, in fact, is Russia's sudden exercise in the Black Sea.


• Google is pledging not to sue free software or open source projects for infringing on some of their patents. Which sounds great until you remember that IBMvdid the same thing in 2005.


• Teach your kids chemistry and debunk homeopathic snake oil at the same time, here.


• Forbes lists the Chicago Cubs as the most profitable team in baseball. Which, ultimately, means that there's not much incentive for them to actually win games. Unfortunately, that's a more potent dynamic than any number of goat curses and reverses.


• A visual history of Linux user experiences, here. Notably missing: anything Android.