Crazy law

A fun list of bizarre legal cases. I loved number 4: stealing a railway station.

What were they thinking

What thought process led to “let’s break your leg for £100k insurance”, both parties agreed and they filmed it taking place. Ouch.

BYO tinyurl

A quick script to build your own URL shortener. Nice idea, but some of the discussion of the pros and cons of such a service have made me think again about deploying it at work or home. (Summary: given that URLs just work and most are clicked as links, why put another...

Kindle

How did I miss Kindle, Amazon’s new eBook reader – that’s a substantial line extension. Shame it isn’t in the UK yet. As one of the commentators said: does Apple have an instant competitor with the iPhone+iTunes Store?