From here:

The Association for Software Testing is pleased to announce its third annual conference (CAST 2008), to be held July 14-16. The meeting will be held in Toronto, Canada, a city which features enormous diversity in culture, businesses, educational institutions, and the arts. Toronto is the perfect location for a conference on this year’s theme: “Beyond the Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Software Testing”.

Interdisciplinary approaches draw from diversified branches of learning or practice, such that insights can be drawn upon and synthesized to influence a particular craft. The CAST 2008 Program Committee is now seeking papers that explain how one, two or more disciplines might assist with software testing.

Read more.

If you have an interest in software testing, and have a paper or an experience report showing how multiple disciplines might apply, please feel free to submit.

I just heard of a band called O.A.R — “Of a Revolution.” I happened to check out their wiki page, and was amazed at what I saw.

Apparently, this band — five students at the Ohio State University — ended up selling 1.2 million albums in their still-continuing career, attributing their success to what the RIAA would call “piracy.” My first thought was Holy crap, how is this a bad thing?

Now, I have no idea if this is just an edge case, or if this is actually congruent with the rest of “music piracy”, but it seems to follow that O.A.R benefited from people copying and sharing songs. Do all musicians benefit in this manner? Maybe. I have no statistics or scientific proof, but it seems obvious enough that copying isn’t piracy if the distributor wants their stuff to be copied.