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Law firm crushes small startup over simple hypertext links

Erik Phipps — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:44:34 +0000

In a case that brings back a feeling of dread in my gut similarly to the judge fancy-pants fiasco, a large law firm has successfully shut down a small start-up who simply posted some run of the mill hypertext links. The lawsuit stated that the start-up was committing trademark infringement. Subsequently, I have infringed five times in this short post alone! Read on at the link below…

Linked Out – A case that threatens the right of Web sites to link freely.

Slate, Via The Consumerist

Plastic food containers are the socks of kitchen items

Erik Phipps — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:54:17 +0000

The title of this post says it all, but I’ll explain further. I was doing dishes while Naomi was struggle to find some plastic food containers to put our lunches in. She continued searching, all-the-while complaining that we had too many miss-matched pieces, and that was when it struck me. She makes the same exact complaint when sorting her socks!

Quirks mode buried but not dead

Erik Phipps — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:57:06 +0000

Good old Quirks Mode. It’s like an undead being slumbering in a forgotten sarcophagus waiting for some unsuspecting designer to stumble upon it. A few weeks or so ago, I began a UI project that, over the years, was designed for Internet Explorer’s Quirks Mode rendering engine. I hadn’t worked on markup for Quirks Mode for over a year and it didn’t take long for it to drain me of all my web standard’s complacent life-blood! Sadly, this project is still not finished with and will surely turn me into some blood-thirsty zombie-oid.