Having discovered the perfect coffeemaker, a software engineer at a Silicon Valley startup declared the Keurig B70 Gourmet Single-Cup Home Brewing System to be "public static final". For those not familiar with the Java Programming Language, this means it cannot be changed and will exist forever. Many hope the coffeemaker will go LGPL shortly.
A new report by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation suggests spending $30 billion on IT infrastructure would create or save 949,000 U.S. jobs.