Tenuous Marketing Email from Amazon

From my Inbox:Dear Amazon.co.uk Customer, We've noticed that customers who have expressed interest in Secrets of Successful Web Sites by David Siegel have also ordered Telecommunications Law of Russia: Statutes and Statutory Instruments by Markova Olga. For this reason, you...

Sony bullying Blogger

Sony are being nasty to Jason Kottke over his posting of Jeopardy 'spoilers' - af all things. I don't really understand why they have any kind of control of what he says, he is presumably not in some kind of...

US Election 2000: Get Over It!

LOL! United States Supreme Court justice at the University of Michigan Law School when asked whether he would revisit the 2000 Election decision told the crowd, "I'm inclined to say it's been four years and an election. Get over it."...

UK Supreme Court 'on ice'?

Via Scots Law News : Don't know how I managed to miss the news that due to a problem finding accommodation the proposed UK Supreme Court will be delayed indefininitely. If this is true then it is ridiculous. Why not...

Lawyers and Poker

Notes from the (legal) Underground points to Greg Raymer's win at the 2004 World Series of Poker and a post by Greg Raymer on rec.gambling.poker from 2001 where Raymer (a.k.a. Fossilman) asserts that patent attorneys from southeastern Connecticut are about...