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A few random bits that caught my attention recently:
- Ars Technica reports that Spammers rights do not prevail against institutional rights:
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling found that UT was well within their rights to block the e-mail in question, and that in doing so, they were not in violation of First Amendment interpretation. The Supreme Court’s decision to not hear the case sends a strong message to spammers everywhere: it is permissible to block spam, no matter how closely it confirms to marketing practices, rules, and even federal communications laws.
- Levi’s announced iPod jeans!
Designed for both men and women, the jeans are designed to be compatible with most iPod systems. A special joystick is built into the jeans’ watch pocket, with four-way controls to allow the wearer to play, pause, track forward, track back and adjust the volume control without ever removing the iPod from the pocket.
- The MoGo MouseBT is a tiny cordless mouse that fits inside your laptop for storage while traveling:
I’ll leave it at this for now as I’m a bit busy cleaning out the collection of tabs I’ve been gathering in NetNewsWire. At a guess I’d say around 50-100 of ‘em, where I normally keep it under 20. Ugh.