Thursday
Jul102003

Possible Baby Names:  Hammerhead?

From Babycenter: "'And then one day I had this feeling of a goldfish swimming around my belly, and immediately I was certain that it was my baby.' Be warned that as the fetus grows, that goldfish may start to feel more like a shark attacking your rib cage."

It's official, too much of this in the past two days to ignore. A regular chip off the old dorsal fin!

Thursday
Jul102003

Positively Keebleresque

One of copyright's bestest little elves is headed West! This calls for a cookie.

Wednesday
Jul092003

Deck Chair Shuffle

Here's the EFF's take on why the revised Kelly v. Arriba Soft (PDF) decision issued Monday is good for the development of link law. Fred von Lohmann: "By revising its ruling, the court removed a copyright iceberg from the main shipping lanes of the World Wide Web." [Via JD Lasica, who is looking for examples of participatory journalism.]

Wednesday
Jul092003

From The "It Had To Happen" Department

Or did it?

"This week on Fresh Gear, we'll examine the Brava, a high tech, non-surgical breast enhancement system promising increased bust size in a matter of weeks." (Another non-surgical breast enhancement system? Pregnancy. But it has, um, side effects.)

The earliest edge: "BabyPlus children have an intellectual, developmental, creative, and emotional advantage from the time they are born." (By the way, better brush up on your survival skills if you're the jokester who subscribed me to Fit Pregnancy. I don't so much mind the magazine, but you never stopped to think about the direct mail lists you'd be subjecting me to as a subscriber, now did you?)

I'm working tonight and tomorrow on finishing the legal panel's responses to Phil Wolff's good questions from the Weblog Business Strategies Conference, the first of which—"Does the blogspace axiom 'You Own Your Words' make any legal sense?"— will include my take on how Batzel shades this. Thanks for bearing with.

Tuesday
Jul082003

Lawlor Wants You (LazyBlawg)

John Lawlor is conducting research on blogging lawyers, and if that's you he would love 15-20 minutes of your time for an interview. He tells me he plans to use the material for surveys, seminars, books and other educational material about blogging. Shoot him an email if you can lend a hand.