Dominik's Tumblelog

Lies We Tell Kids

Wed, 14 May 2008 01:30:28 -0400

Brand magic

Tue, 13 May 2008 21:16:59 -0400

Torley points us to brand tags.

It’s a simple game where you pick one-word associations to go with major brands. The result pages are actually pretty inane, but the magical way each and every…

He can mean he or she, but she can’t mean she or he. Is that gender discrimination? I...

Tue, 13 May 2008 21:01:19 -0400

He can mean he or she,
but she can’t mean she or he.
Is that gender discrimination?
I don’t know, perhaps it’s poetry.

What do you know?

Sat, 10 May 2008 21:05:47 -0400

What do you know?: Three years ago, I published this list, which was very much a riff, not a carefully planned manifesto. It has held up pretty well. Feel free to reprint or otherwise use, as long as you include a…

"We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

Sat, 10 May 2008 00:23:52 -0400

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

- Albert Einstein

I brot youz a flower…

Fri, 09 May 2008 11:12:29 -0400

I brot youz a flower…:

I brot youz a flower… But I eated it…

but i do haz sum cookeez. remember iz mother’s dai on sundai. git flowerz nd card but no nom nom da flowers plez.

picture: dunno source, via our …

"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear—kept us in a continuous stampede of..."

Thu, 08 May 2008 10:58:00 -0400

“Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear—kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor—with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.”

- General Douglas MacArthur

Delanceyplace.com 5/8/08-Tea and OpiumIn today's encore

Thu, 08 May 2008 09:04:58 -0400

Delanceyplace.com 5/8/08-Tea and OpiumIn today's encore: Delanceyplace.com 5/8/08-Tea and Opium

In today’s encore excerpt—Chinese tea, the balance of payments, and opium:

“The British East India Company discovered that there was a market for tea in…

The Media markets

Wed, 07 May 2008 12:57:45 -0400

The Media markets:

The product they sell is drama.

When I went to business school, we spent an entire 90 minute class on how to read the Wall Street Journal. That’s a rare treat… being taught how to understand and…

What if I told you of a future where humanity obeyed the dictates of unfeeling, unthinking...

Fri, 02 May 2008 15:42:07 -0400

What if I told you of a future
where humanity obeyed the dictates
of unfeeling, unthinking machines.
Would you believe me?

What if I showed you
a traffic light
at an
intersection

"Rule #1: Never tell a girl to calm down."

Fri, 02 May 2008 13:26:05 -0400

“Rule #1: Never tell a girl to calm down.”

- Valerie, a classmate in Professional Responsibility

Z's book is out

Fri, 02 May 2008 10:07:18 -0400

Z's book is out:

JZ’s book is out. It is in the brilliant Yale Series of brilliant (and Creative Commons licensed) books (which includes Yochai’s as well). But you can (and will want to) buy it the…

Previously on "The Democratic Primaries"

Fri, 02 May 2008 10:07:18 -0400

Previously on "The Democratic Primaries":

APPARENTLY all the time you’ve spent following the Democratic primaries to date has been wasted; Slate has summed it all up in 7.5 minutes:

Air Marshals mistakeningly on no-fly list, prevented from flying on the planes they were supposed to protect

Thu, 01 May 2008 21:38:18 -0400

Air Marshals mistakeningly on no-fly list, prevented from flying on the planes they were supposed to protect

Let's skip the meeting

Thu, 01 May 2008 12:04:31 -0400

Let's skip the meeting:

Chris sends us this classic “ad.”

Today’s resolution: skip at least one meeting every day for the next two weeks. Watch what happens.

United States Patent Application 20070078663: Method and instrument for proposing marriage to an individual

Thu, 01 May 2008 11:19:32 -0400

United States Patent Application 20070078663: Method and instrument for proposing marriage to an individual :

The purpose of this invention is to provide an improved method of proposing marriage to an individual. The method of proposing to an individual generally comprising the steps of meeting the individual; exchanging names with the individual; dating the individual (not necessary); drafting a government document having a proposal to marry the individual incorporated therein; and showing the government document to the individual. The government document may be a patent application. The patent application may claim the method by which the proposor will make a marriage proposal to the individual. The proposor could then use the method claimed in the patent application to propose to the individual. The patent application could be the actual marriage proposal.

via PHOSITA

Grocery Store Wars

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:55:00 -0400

Grocery Store Wars

Self promotion

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:03:40 -0400

Self promotion:

Owen Wilson starred in a really bad movie that came out a few months ago. Most notable: he didn’t go out to shill for it. No Colbert, no Daily Show, no Larry King.

Perhaps he’s nursing a bad cold,…

The Perils of Ordering Lemonade at the Ballpark: You Might Lose Custody of Your Child

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:48:31 -0400

The Perils of Ordering Lemonade at the Ballpark: You Might Lose Custody of Your Child

"eBay’s allegations of harm are based, in part, on the argument that BE’s activities..."

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:02:00 -0400

“eBay’s allegations of harm are based, in part, on the argument that BE’s activities should be thought of as equivalent to sending in an army of 100,000 robots a day to check the prices in a competitor’s store. This analogy, while graphic, appears inappropriate. Although an admittedly formalistic distinction, unauthorized robot intruders into a “brick and mortar” store would be committing a trespass to real property. There does not appear to be any doubt that the appropriate remedy for an ongoing trespass to business premises would be a preliminary injunction. More importantly, for the analogy to be accurate, the robots would have to make up less than two out of every one-hundred customers in the store, the robots would not interfere with the customers’ shopping experience, nor would the robots even be seen by the customers. Under such circumstances, there is a legitimate claim that the robots would not pose any threat of irreparable harm.”

- eBay, Inc. v. Bidder’s Edge, Inc., 100 F. Supp. 2d 1058 (N.D. Cal. 2000). From reading for Software and Internet Law