Apple’s MobileMe service has proven to be a horror It’s been a curious thing to watch: Apple makes mistakes all the time, but they are usually small mistakes, easily swept aside in the tide of their own user’s enthusiasm. But MobileMe wasn’t just a cool service with some flaws: it ripped itself out of Apple’s [...]

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Article from Techdirt by Mike Masnick.
As TiVo and other DVRs became increasingly popular, various cable companies realized it probably made sense to offer similar features themselves. While some started selling home DVRs, a few realized that perhaps they could short-circuit around this by offering a remote, centrally-managed DVR instead. Time Warner was one of the [...]

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Article here, quoted below:
Espresso, Extra Bitter
Man’s Tiff With Barista Spills Onto Internet
By Joe Heim
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 17, 2008; B01

Who knew a cup of coffee could create such a tempest in a teapot?
Not Jeff Simmermon, whose request for a triple shot of espresso over ice at Murky Coffee in Arlington County turned into a [...]

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I posted at length about this story yesterday. It was first posted on BoingBoing & Metafilter. Now the Consumerist picks it up. Other notable Washington DC area blogs, DCist and The DCeiver are also covering it. It’s a hot topic on Twitter. Also, a commenter on DCist had found this old post about how the [...]

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By E. J. Dionne Jr.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008; Page A19 Never do I want to hear again from my conservative friends about how brilliant capitalists are, how much they deserve their seven-figure salaries and how government should keep its hands off the private economy.
The Wall Street titans have turned into a bunch of welfare [...]

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Friday may mark a significant milestone in the RIAA’s legal campaign against file-sharing, as it is the deadline for exonerated RIAA defendant Tanya Andersen to refile her malicious prosecution lawsuit against the record labels. Soon afterwards, discovery will begin, and all sorts of unsavory details about the RIAA’s legal campaign against suspected file-sharers are likely [...]

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