The (Other) End of the Internet

The last stop on the information superhighway. All traffic must exit in 500 feet.

Archive for 2007/10/11


Sued for linking news articles

I’ve heard about some utterly asinine court cases before, but this one takes the cake.
The Associated Press is suing news-aggregation site Moreover and its parent company VeriSign for copyright infringement for snippeting and linking to its news. This harkens back to the early days of the Internet when news aggregators were routinely legally hassled for […]

A retraction

In this post I said that my wife got an email from thoof.com complaining about her blog posts not being written in third person.
I have since heard from the site owner of thoof.com and I’m going to assume (since I don’t have the email to refer back to any more) that he’s correct when he […]

Why you should always keep a backup

A short time back I bought a package of 50 blank DVDs on ebay. The package I bought happened to include a 128 megabyte USB drive (or jump drive or thumb drive or whatever they call it at your end of the internet). I really understand why my daughter complains that her 256 meg USB […]