Monday, February 11, 2002

Judge Dubious About Link Patent British Telecom is less than cheerio over a small setback in the company's attempt to collect cash for the "unauthorized" use of hyperlinks. [Wired] ...more tales of corporate 'crack'. You just have to love the patent process when it leads to this kind of suit. I think the users of the internet should sue BT for stupidity..ooppss, they're a Telcom company, stupidity just goes with the territory (warning that link and this one will raise your blood pressure)...mj    3:00:11 PM

'Sexy Miss': Not a dream come true Amy Gehring: Cleared but now barred from teaching Adults may joke about the "sexy miss" cleared of indecent assault, but it can be hard to recognise that boys who have sex with older women are the victims of abuse - just like girls preyed on by men. If a male teacher had been accused of having sex with 14 and 15-year-old girls, he would no doubt be painted as a sexual predator and his pupils as victims of abuse. [BBC] ...living in the Seattle area I got to spend several years listening to the May Kay Letourneau story. It was sickening. The double standard is so true. If she had been a man, the story would never have gotten the attention it did and she would have been locked up and forgotten. The hard part is that when I think back on what it was like when I was 15-16, and I have to be honest...I would have loved to 'sack' some 25 year old woman. That's the problem and why this issue has no simple answers. In fairness we need to treat these women no different then we do men. If we fail, then we have supported another double standard...mj 12:14:51 PM

Did gourmet coffee cause dot-com bust? Blame gourmet coffee for the dot-com bust... That's one of the theories two Internet executives-turned-filmmakers uncover with a director friend in a documentary called "What Happened" that premiered Thursday at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival. "The advent of gourmet coffee contributed to a certain over-excitement and lack of questioning," Chas Mastin, writer of the film said, relaying one of the more popular and humorous theories for the bust provided by people-on-the-street and Internet players interviewed for the documentary. While the dot-com boom has become a thing of the past, the effort to dissect it is just gaining momentum. ...The new film points out that it cost $20 billion to invent the atomic bomb in the 1940s and another $20 billion to land a man on the moon in the 1960s. Dot-com start-ups burned through $20 billion in 1999 alone, according to "What Happened." [CNet News] ...FREE ≠ PROFIT!!! ...MONEY ≠ SUCCESS!!! ...you may now resume you regularly scheduled programming...mj 9:52:31 AM

Dr. Ian Malcolm: "Yeah, but John, if the Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists." Jurassic Park (1993 - Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcolm) 7:52:17 AM

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