Ever had an idea that seemed kind of obvious and then immediately, given the current climate in which patents seem to be dished out like parking tickets, wondered how long it would take for a patent to show up featuring your ‘obvious’ idea?

If you have an idea that you don’t want to patent yourself but fear someone else might be able to push through the patent system pop along to Bleeding Obvious and make a page describing it. It’s a wiki so anyone can edit it - but it keeps previous versions so nobody can re-write history.