Exhibit A: The end of the world is near

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/02/who-stop-drug-r.html

Decades of tuberculosis control efforts could be reversed by rising drug resistance. Especially lethal strains are spreading with alarming rapidity, and no country is safe.

That’s the disturbing message from the World Health Organization, who today released their fourth and largest global survey of drug resistance in tuberculosis, a respiratory disease that kills more than 1.5 million people each year.

The mainframe will continue to live

http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/I/IBM_NEW_MAINFRAME?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-02-26-11-14-38

Supposed to save energy too

The new System z10, with a starting price at about $1 million, comes as IBM focuses on lowering the price tag for running its storied line of data-crunching workhorses.

The Armonk, N.Y.-based company said it designed the new machine to help companies and government agencies that rely on mainframes - usually for critical data processing such as bank transactions or census statistics crunching - save money on energy bills and better handle a flood of Internet information.

The size of IBM’s investment - the company spent five years and $1.5 billion developing the new mainframe - also underscores its commitment to the long-term viability of the mainframe and efforts continue adapting the decades-old product line to the Internet age.