Bowietreks

UPS Intercept

UPS has announced a new feature, which will allow you to change the address of the recipient of a shipment after the package has been shipped. If you have shipped to the wrong address, or determined that a shipment cannot be delivered to the address you shipped it to for some reason, you may now change the delivery address mid-route, if necessary.

For details of this procedure, see here.

Source: Download Squad

Trans Strap

Trans Strap is a new product designed to help public transporation users avoid germs and dirt left behind by other users. Some information from the site:

"Our premium quality products dramatically enhance the public transit experience.
The patent-pending TranStrap^TM provides a comfortable, hygienic, personal
handhold that securely grips the overhead bar yet goes on and off easily and
stows in a purse or pocket. TranStrapâ„¢ products are Made in the USA."

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I wish this had been thought of when I lived in New York. Sometimes I hated using the straps on the subway trains, especially in the winter when it seemed the whole world had colds. I will buy one when I go back there to live, hopefully next year.

Source: Shoulder Button

Wayback Machine Used for Legal Research

Slashdot recently posted about attorneys using the Wayback Machine as a source for legal research, especially in the intellectual property field.

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By Zonk on time-travel-is-fun

Carl Bialik from the WSJ writes "The Wayback Machine's internet archive and Google's cached pages are becoming indispensable tools for some lawyers, especially specialists in intellectual-property law. Dell has used copies of expired websites to get the domain name DellComputersSuck.com transferred to it, the Wall Street Journal reports. EchoStar used Wayback in a case against a Polish TV company. Playboy checks Wayback to look for infringers of its trademark bunny or other images. And Wayback was even used to discredit a witness and reach a mistrial in a Canada murder case." ***** This is an interesting and creative use for the internet. I would like to see the legal citations for material used from these sources.

TV Guide Succumbs

TV Guide, the venerable program listing digest magazine, announced Tuesday it will change format to a large, color photo size. It will also change content, presently 75 per cent listings and 25 per cent articles, to just the opposite.

Jobs will also be cut, but no other information was given about this part of the change.

The magazine's subscriptions and sales have declined due to the availability of online television listings, and cable service program guides.

The changes will be effective early in October.

I will miss the magazine. It is older than I am, and I have used it all my life. I do sometimes use online listings, and use my digital cable guide often, but I still subscribe to and read the magazine. I don't know of any other print magazine like it, with the exception of Satellite Orbit, which I don't much like.

Netflix Headquarters

It's such an unassuming little place, for such a life altering company...

Netflix Headquarters in Los Gatos, California

From: Hacking Netflix

Lawyer Sells Services on eBay

Per www.newcommblogzine.com/blog:

By Elizabeth L. Fletcher, Esq.
Cross-posted at Blawgzine.com

Patent attorney John Ogilvie found an interesting way to market his practice, by offering his legal services on eBay. In May, Ogilvie listed his "Trademark Application -- Legal Services" offer on the auction site, with the promise: "Registration guaranteed or your money back." Does it appear undignified to auction off legal services? Questionable? Stupid? Or a brilliant stroke...

I think it is undignified and questionable. Stupid? Not necessarily. It could work. I grew up in the era when it was considered bad form for lawyers and doctors to advertise at all. If the attorney is good at what he does, and his clients satisfied, then more power to him.