Those crazy Brits are pissing off Apple. Apparently Apple is not such a big fan of their branding being repurposed for the sale of feminine sex toys...

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This judge should be disbarred and forced to pay the cost of the Chung defense team. If there is such a thing as spurious law suits, this is it.

Quoted: Sometimes something you take to a dry cleaner doesn't come back. An administrative hearings judge in Washington, D.C., is suing his dry cleaner for millions over a pair of pants. Sixty-five million, to be exact.

An announcement: "Please keep fighting for our rights to freedom of speech, just make sure not to use it."

Quoted: The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer, Wired News has learned. The directive, issued April 19, is the sharpest restriction on troops' online activities since the start of the Iraq war. And it could mean the end of military blogs, observers say.

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Quoted: "The reputation of the Army is maintained on many fronts, and no one fights harder on its behalf than our young soldiers. We must allow them access to the fight," Robbins wrote. "To silence the most credible voices -- those at the spear's edge -- and to disallow them this function is to handicap ourselves on a vital, very real battlefield."

I think this kind of funny. Australia has denied entrance to Snoop Dogg.

Quoted: "He doesn't seem the sort of bloke we want in this country."

As you may or may not know, Cisco is suing Apple for infringment upon the iPhone trademark. This blog post by Cisco PR strikes a delicate tone on the issue. I think it was really well done - clear, open, and most likely honest. It is unfortunate that Apple apparently decided to "ask forgiveness later" on this issue.

It'll be interesting to see if there is any open dialog between the two companies on this in the coming weeks or if it is purely in the hands of the lawyers from here on out.

Great blog. Horrible story. Man sells bikes on Craigslist. Gets suspicious check. Asks B of A to check if it is indeed valid. Gets arrested. Pays $14k in legal fees. Receives no recompense form B of A.

There's a bit of a protest over this going on. It seems a lot of people are closing their accounts.

Quoted: This Is Broken is a project to make companies more aware of their customer experience. Submit your own entry.

Wow. Michael Arrington and crew received a cease and desist letter from YouTube's attorneys. I read the YouTube agreement and their letter to Michael and I agree with Michael's interpretation. The letter refers to things which are not in the terms of use on YouTube's site. I hope Michael's attorney agrees as well.

Some notes on "fair use" on websites.

Quoted: Computers make us more productive. Yeah, right. Lifehacker recommends the software downloads and web sites that actually save time. Don't live to geek; geek to live.

I had never read this blog before but I was pointed here by Om Malik's blog. This is a post on the "self-owned internet" and its "ownership." My favorite quote is below:

Quoted: The relationship between the notes, rather than the notes themselves, is powerful in open networks. It is these relationships that create value.