Blackberry nuttiness
If there are any smart libertarian legal scholars and economists out there who can enlighten me on the Blackberry patent case, I’d love to hear from them. From my understanding, a wildly successful company that produces hand-held gadgets that allow gazillions of businessmen and women to communicate with their clients and colleagues could be turned off because of a patent dispute.
Has patent law gone totally mad in the United States? Patents, let’s not forget, are created by the State to deal with the issue of intellectual property rights, a thorny issue for libertarians, some of whom defend patents and some who say they are a statist heresy. But destroying one of the world’s most vibrant businesses seems not what such laws are about. Crazy.
Here is an article about how patents have caused a shakedown industry of its own.
Read more 1 commentGene Simmons on Bush
On Cavuto on Fox Gene Simmons admitted to voting for the President twice and said: “I want a rotweiller in a bad neighbourhood not a poodle.” He went on to explain that he admires Bush for not giving a damn what his poll ratings are when he thinks he is doing the right thing.
In the words of Kiss: “Shout it, Shout it, Shout it out Loud!”
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The new SNN is up and the London Report is back thanks to my sorting out my recording problems. Cordite and Dogs have got their Carnivals up for the next week. Bestof is going nicely too. The Carnival of the Vanities is all smokey. There is a Bonfire of sorts…here.
And there is a new Storyblogging for your fiction pleasures.
Right Wing News has the 25 Best and Worst moments in American History.
Guido & the Monkey’s Podcast is Comments are off for this post
Street Life
come on with me cruising down the street
who knows what youll see, who you might meet
Windows Live Local is rolling out the beta version of its Local Technology Preview program, which lets you cruise around cities (so far, only Seattle and San Francisco) at street level. There’s nothing to download or install. Steer using the arrow keys or mouse (If your mouse has a scroll wheel, you can use it to zoom the overhead view in or out. Or use the +/- keys.). It tends to be sluggish at times, so you might want to give this one a pass if you’re on a dial-up connection.
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