Dooce so totally makes me laugh until I can’t handle it anymore.
There was a relatively brilliant moment in ABC’s last installment of “The Bachelor” when the bachelor, Andrew Firestone, and a contestant named Amber were sitting at a romantically lit dinner table searching painfully for something to talk about. It seemed… [dooce]
I am glad that this fellow is in jail. Good case, great article.
The hunt for an eBay scammer. Jay Nelson ripped off buyers on eBay and Yahoo until the Feds put him behind bars. We catch up with him in prison, where he’ll be until 2007. [Fast Company]
I used to think it was wildly funny and somewhat entertaining when some enterprising company ran out, purchased a patent or a portfolio full of patents from some smaller firm (or an individual), and then proceeded to sue a bunch of people over using that patent.
As I remember from my classes on US History – the patent system was intended to protect the inventor of a unique product from having that product copied – thus infringing the patent. I’m fairly confident that it was never intended to be used to patent things like HTML Navigation, One-Click Shopping, the transmission of data over the internet, and so on, and so on.
A group of my friends, who operate a variety of websites and a part of a large online community, are being pressured by Acacia Media Technologies Corporation to hand over large portions of their earnings for having streaming audio and/or video content on their sites.
I’m certain that there is prior art that makes this patent invalid – but who has the time and the funding to challenge this. These folks are all running small businesses and don’t have the time, the expertise, or the money to fight this out in court. So they’ll do what almost every other business that Acacia is going after will do…
Pay.
My younger brother’s divorce is final today. After about six months of fucking hell, he’s finally made it through everything.
Child custody is a complete bitch. Either act like an adult or give up living. His now ex-wife is going to make this an interesting ride, it appears. Thank god for aggressive attorneys.
I didn’t care much for Steve’s attorney when I worked in law enforcement, he was too critical and overly aggressive as a defense attorney. So naturally, he’s the first guy that I thought about when he needed an attorney to help him through his divorce and subsequent child custody bullshit.
Here’s hoping that things go better moving forward. I can still have hope….
And I fucking hate that Tammy Wynette song.
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Sites you might be interested in. Nanodot: Slashdot for futurists, managed by Foresight. Smartmobs: group weblog (needs a redesign). Daily Rotation: filtered newsfeeds from tech sites, including weblogs. [John Robb’s Weblog]
Nice knowing you. Glad you’re dead.
The US military says it is ‘certain’ its troops have killed Saddam Hussein’s sons Uday and Qusay in a raid. [BBC News | Front Page]
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