The Washington Post's Leslie Walker has a column on Dead Dotcoms Walking. In it she discloses that Fucked Company will launch a new site next month, InternalMemos.com, devoted to internal corporate memos. [JD's New Media Musings]

Edward Law, of Orlando, sued the Wildside Adult Sports Cabaret last month after visiting the West Palm Beach club and finding that the lap dance room had no wheelchair access. This is not his first suit against a strip club. [Ernie the Attorney]

Parents Television Council Apologizes to Worldwide Wrestling Entertainment over Wrestling Death Case. A Florida teenager was convicted of the 1999 murder of a young girl. It was widely reported that death was caused by the boy imitating wrestling moves, and the case was widely referred to as the wrestling death case. The Parents Television Council (PTC) made the wrestling death case a feature of its fund-rasing efforts and approached Worldwide Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) advertisers, presumably in an attempt to either dissuade them from advertising on wrestling shows, or to influence its content. WWE sued PTC, arguing that wrestling had nothing to do with the murder. Apparently they were right. In addition to paying WWE damages, PTE has had to publish this public apology and retraction.

Gabriel Perle has an excellent chapter on libel and defamation in The Publishing Law Handbook. Regardless of your field of law, it's worth reviewing on a regular basis. [The Trademark Blog]

Apology issued for "Roasted Nuts" psychiatric hospital fire headline [Exploding Cigar]

Toyota Snubs Its Main Ad Agency. Toyota is snubbing its main agency, Saatchi & Saatchi, by awarding a group of smaller, creatively focused agencies an estimated $50 million assignment for its new Scion line of vehicles. By Stuart Elliott. [New York Times: International]

Enough Tom for You? Star Covers Lose Allure. After years of chasing celebrities, magazine editors have been left wondering whether the sexy, familiar faces are losing some of their newsstand magnetism. By David Carr. [New York Times: Arts]

A very funny site, Science Made Stupid.

Newton's Laws. Isaac Newton also used direct observation to formulate his laws. Newton was in government service for many years. His first law states: A body at rest tends to remain at rest, while a body in motion at a constant velocity in a straight line tends to continue in that motion. Clearly, this law is based on first-hand observation of a bureaucracy in action. One night, Newton became engaged in a heated argument at a local bar over a question of epicycles, leading him to punch his opponent in the nose. After being thoroughly worked over, Newton contemplated the results and announced his next law: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. In a well-known story, Newton discovered gravity when he was hit on the head while sitting under an apple tree. This tale is, of course, fictitious. It was actually a fig tree, and the result was his best-known theory: I bet you could make a swell cookie out of these figs.

[Boing Boing Blog]