7. May, 2003 - Heat. Serve. Enjoy?
- It’s Tuesday evening. I’m tired, cranky, and hungry. I decide I’ll eat some frozen microwave lasagna. So why are the directions so darned hard to follow?
Heat 4 minutes in microwave. Stir sauce around edges. Heat two more minutes in microwave. Serve. Enjoy.
Why is it that last step in the directions that’s always the hardest?
- Judge Rules Against Pooh Heir. A. A. Milne’s granddaughter never had the marketing rights to Winnie the Pooh, so she never could have sold them to Disney. Y’know, this wouldn’t be anything like a big issue if Disney didn’t spend so much time and energy trying to extend the term of copyright so none of their
properties
would ever expire. [boing boing]
- Government, companies race to patent SARS virus, raising ethics questions. Okay, explain to me again how you can patent a virus. Hey! How about I patent Hydrogen? Feh.
- Cindy Cohn from the EFF gave a Report from FTC Spam Conference in which she mentions that a big concern is that there are legitimate mailing lists which are being blocked by spam-blocking software. Yes, that’s true. It’s also true that I don’t give money to non-profits who contact me by phone anymore. While I may like their cause, telemarketers have wrecked the phone as a tool for raising funds from me. Spammers have wrecked email. If some non-profit wants money from me, they’re going to have to send a letter on paper (and not 23 increasingly urgent letters beginning just after my yearly tithe telling me that my
annual membership
is about to expire, either) [boing boing]
- U renters protest, sue landlord Eischens. Our neighborhood association also hears a lot of complaints about him.
- Glow is off Minnesota’s once-venerated tobacco deal, as the money MN received is now being used to make up general budget shortfalls, rather than anything remotely to do with tobacco. Not surprising, but disappointing. [strib]
Copyright 2009, Dave Polaschek.
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