From the stupid-lawsuit file: British Telecom is suing U.S. Internet service providers, starting with Prodigy, for patent infringement. Why? Well it seems as though BT patented hyperlinks, like this one back in 1976. BT tried to persuade the judge to interpret the language broadly for the jury -- to include a computer mouse, for example, […]
Apparently there is a ruckus being raised over some remarks reportedly made by Attorney General John Ashcroft about Islam. "Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for Him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends His son to die for you." American-Islamic groups are calling for […]
The more I read about the wacky French, the more I think that President Bush should have gone further in his State of the Union speech. He should have named an Axis of Stupid -- topped by the French. (I'll take nominations for what other countries should be named to the Axis.) The latest stupidity […]
The New York Times has an article on one of the Americans who was held hostage at the United States embassy in Iran back in 1979. Sgt. Rodney "Rocky" Sickmann, then one of the Marine guards at the embassy, thinks that he and his comrades should've started shooting when student radicals invaded sovereign U.S. territory […]