Month: April 2007

  • Utah Passes Dangerous Legislation To Ban Comparative Keyword Advertising

    The Utah legislature has quietly passed a dangerous law allowing trademark owners to prevent their marks from being used as keywords to generate comparative ads. If this law takes effect, a company like Chevrolet couldn’t purchase “sponsored link” space on the Google results page when a user types “Toyota” as part of a search query.…

  • Digg: iPod v. Insulin Pump

    Amy Tenderich writes one of (if not the) most influential blogs about diabetes, Diabetes Mine. Noting the news today about Apple selling its 100 millionth iPod and praising the exceptional industrial design of Apple products, she asks for Apple’s help in designing better medical devices, particularly blood glucose monitors and insulin pumps. Sounds like a…

  • Global Warming Quiz

    Russell Roberts at Cafe Hayek asks a simple question: Suppose we discovered that the earth was cooling rather than warming due to a natural cycle. Would you encourage people to drive more and use more carbon-based energy as a way of warming the earth?

  • Woman arrested for "second-degree self abortion"

    It’s illegal to practice medicine without a license when involving others, but what about yourself? Do you own your body or not? A broader issue is why things are so bad that the woman was forced to attempt an abortion on herself. Surely things aren’t that bad in the U.S.? read more | digg story

  • Digg: Why So Gloomy? There is no perfect temperature for Earth.

    It’s apparent that there’s no such thing as an optimal temperature —a climate at which everything is just right. The current alarm rests on the false assumption not only that we live in a perfect world, temperaturewise, but also that our warming forecasts for the year 2040 are somehow more reliable than the weatherman’s forecast…

  • Digg: The Violent Rantings of a lunatic bully over a Chocolate Jesus

    On Anderson Cooper the President of the Catholic League, William Donnahue calls a statue of Jesus made out of chocolate is hate speech. The artists responds by saying it’s not hate speech, it’s just a deliciously sweet Jesus statute. The artist looks absolutely crazy, but it’s the well-dressed Donahue that comes off like the lunatic.…

  • Digg: US-Iranian firefight in Iraq. Iranian casualities.

    “US forces were engaged by uniformed Iranian soldiers with small arms and RPG’s inside Iraq. At least one Iranian was killed and no American casualties were reported.” Does this sound like another failed hostage-taking attempt? read more | digg story