McCoffee burns

An interesting examination of how you might wind up (and wind down) a jury and why the McDonalds coffee burns damages case was an abberation in McCoffee burns. Very lawyer-focused, but interesting nonetheless.

Boris Akunin

Boris Akunin from Wikipedia. Just read the first one and it’s very good. So why did they translate the first and then the third of his books and not the second yet?

That sucking sound? It’s your cell

It’s bad news for component and chip manufacturers because convergence is happening around cell phones, and they’re mostly given away. This isn’t the case for the iPod, for example, but must be true for simple digital cameras and mp3 players.

Budgeting for Advertising and Customer Experience

Good Experience looks a the end of mainstream advertising for certain companies. As an example, Amazon does very little advertising, but spends the amount it might have to on advertising on continually extending the customer experience and value they deliver. As the...

Throwing Tables Out the Window

Throwing Tables Out the Window shows that Microsoft could reduce its bandwidth costs by 329 Terabytes per year by using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)-based layout. Amazing.