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.Name allows monopolizing names

.Name has apparently abandoned their earlier policy of only giving out third level domains (e.g. you could register john.smith.name but not just smith.name — thus preventing any other smiths from using a .name address) and will now act as just another TLD. [ “(extlink)Hack the Planet”:http://wmf.editthispage.com ] It seems like perhaps a return to a ...

Dilbert’s Ultimate Cubicle

Dilbert’s Ultimate Cubicle – “Over the years, DILBERT fans have e-mailed me on all sorts of topics. And after a while, I began to realize that a common theme among the majority of them was the fact that most people are highly frustrated with their cubicles. So I started to think, ‘What would DILBERT want ...

RIAA Suffers Setback

RIAA vs. Verizon – The Circuit Court of Appeals Trims the RIAA’s DMCA Wings – There was a case decided on Friday by a federal appeals court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, that is so significant in its implications, at least to my reading, that I thought it worthwhile to ...

Gift Cards Have Redeeming Value?

A “special advertising section” of the Star Ledger Tue 12/16 had an article titled Gift card has redeeming value written by ‘Andrea Frucci – Marketing Staff.’ Ms. Frucci tries to paint the gift card as a win-win situation for people looking to buy gifts, less work for you, and then your recipients get to go ...

Let’s Get Married when we’re 40

p. A “(extlink)Salon article”:http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2003/11/18/marriage_pacts/index.html (subscription or ad required) talks about the increasing prevalence of contingency plans where singles plan with friends of the opposite sex to be emergency wedding partners, when they get older.