Fodors.com, which now has a travel blog, wants to prohibit anyone from deep-linking into its content (”‘deep linking’ past the FODORS.COM homepage is strictly prohibited”). So even though the Fodors bloggers deep-link into other sites, Fodors’ lawyers want to prevent you from doing the same thing. Someone at Fodors doesn’t get the Web at all.
Escorts and strippers from the West Coast and from London will converge on New York for the Republican convention, Aug. 30 - Sept. 2, the Daily News reports. So, how does the god-fearing GOPper explain to his wife where that dose of the clap came from?
Via Lessig, an electronic version (in Microsoft Reader format) of the Constitution of the United States. Note the following technological or legal restrictions: You can’t view it on a Mac and you can’t print it. If you purchase the Adobe Reader version instead, you can view it on a Mac, and you can print it, […]
Via Language Hat, this French-language dictionary of e-technologies.
Kottke offers his rules for manuevering the subways. I have to admit that, when I’m alone, I break number 7 all the time. If it’s any consolation, though, I try to keep an eye out to make sure I don’t get in anyone’s way when I pace or meander.
Goddammit, now I’m hungry.
Slice has released piPod, an iPod-based field guide to NYC pizzerias.
Mmmmm, pizza. I’ll have to download this from home tonight.
UPDATE: Suuuuuuuuuuuuuck. This doesn’t work for me because my iPod’s too old. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
From today’s Times: Simon Property to Buy Chelsea for $3.5 Billion
[Simon Property Group and its most heinous famous property]
Justices Keep ‘Under God’ in Pledge (washingtonpost.com): The Court threw out the case not on the merits of its arguments but because the justices concluded that the plaintiff had no legal right to sue on his daughter’s behalf.
However, the three justices who did comment “supported some version” of the White House’s Humpty Dumpty claim that […]
Is this a joke?
“Furthermore, this is absolutely not a joke.”
Oh, I guess it’s not.
You’d think that the city that never sleeps would have a train station that never closes, but you’d be wrong. After Grand Central’s transition from a national to a regional hub, the station began closing during the night, stranding those who miss the last trains out.
The Times offers a smart and funny look at the […]
