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stoat | July 26, 2010mt discusses Denialism, Informational Conformity and New Coke. Go read it now, if you didn't when he first wrote it.
Paul Graham propounds the concept of the top idea in your mind which might partly explain why rolling out a broken AUP is a really bad idea; less for the policy itself, which people will just make jokes at, but because it distracts.
Can't remember where I got the pic from now (M-san has found the source).
Listening to Peter Gabriel - I have the touch.
Rabbett attacks that dork Cuccineli but the links to the docs are interesting.
Out in the cold says Nurture, The parlous state…
bioephemera | April 27, 2009
I'm off to visit the Supreme Court tomorrow, so I thought I'd share some law news for a change. In a landmark patent decision, Federal Circuit Judge Richard Posner has ruled that the sex toy shown above is "obvious."
You can read the explanation at Patently-O, but suffice it to say that the gap between the legal sense of the word "obvious" and its colloquial sense may be as wide as the gap for "theory" (as in, "but evolution is just a theory.") Honestly, I would not have known this was a sex toy if I hadn't been told. It looks like a bottle opener. Perhaps the dry design schematic leaches…