April 2003

Some unknown number of you are reading the Blog using aggregators and may or may not have visited the Website itself.  If not, you are missing out on nifty features we have used to decorate the from-the-factory Userland template. 

Starting from the lower left, above the Creative Commons license, is a link to ccTLD reference information.

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The Wall Street Journal’s Cranky Consumer column (Page D2 today, no link) compared search engines on various tasks – finding a specific product, finding a local business, etc.  Recommendations – Froogle for finding the radio,  AOL’s yellow page service for zip-code based searching of local businesses.  Singled out for criticism – MSN, for being

First the SARS virus.  Then the photo of the LV SARS mask with claims that this is real Vuitton.  Then the allegations of sub-viral marketing (no pun intended here).  Then the debunking.  Detective work here, here and here..  Via Boing Boing and Tech Law Advisor.

When read quickly, the first paragraph of this article:

“The Oakland Raiders have asked a judge to prevent the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Carolina Panthers from wearing their uniforms for games in California because they violate the Raiders’ trademark rights.”

suggests an absurd image.