A Peculiar Blog

Have you ever had a food nightmare? Sorta like the old joke about dreaming you’re eating a giant marshmallow and waking up to discover your pillow is missing? How about having one while awake? I think I’ve just had one.

Recently I wrote about the story of Jennifer Reisinger, a web designer who was hit with a takedown notice because she has a Link to the Sheboygan Police Department on her website, Brat City Web Design. It seems that this isn’t the only case of ridiculous legal action over hypertext links.

Not too long ago we heard all about how HD-DVD had lost the format war with Sony’s Blu-Ray and stopped fighting. The high ups at Sony were predicting that Blu-Ray would have a 50% market share by the end of 2008. Unfortunately for them things don’t seem to be going the way they thought.

Ever have one of those times when you *just* missed answering the phone before it stopped ringing? I have, lots of times. I’ve also had problems with telemarketers calling with those really annoying automated phone messages. Then there’s the times when some prank caller is becoming a major pain.

In a move that shows very clearly that somebody at Nielson obviously doesn’t have all of their cards shuffled just right, they’ve hit Wikipedia with a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) takedown notice forcing Wikipedia to remove over 300 pages.