"The current look of this site hasn't changed much for the past two years, apart from a few additional CSS rules being used by default in article texts. Whilst the content here is hopefully of sufficient quality to allow the current design to be tolerated I'm sure we can do better. [...] So I've decided to see what the readers can do to help, and would like to see designs from people with better skills than myself..."

"the US Patent and Trademark Office is considering riding this wave of upheaval and making a tremendous change of its own: Last week, it announced its official support of a Web site whose purpose will be to encourage citizens to assess the validity of patent applications for themselves, and issue challenges where necessary."