03 Jan 2008
Microsoft patents Wish Lists

Can I get a patent on wishing these people would stop patenting the patently obvious?

Microsoft has been granted a patent for electronic Wish Lists. The patent, 7,315,834, was filed in April 2005 and granted on New Year's Day.

(link) [The Register]

20:34 /Copywrongs | 0 comments | permanent link

Former beauty queen cuffed for torturing ex

And what did the cops find when the searched the crime scene?

The search-warrant inventory filed in court says that police subsequently found "an expended bullet at a home in the 1200 block of East Knox Drive along with .45-caliber ammunition, plastic gloves, marijuana, the victim's wallet and briefcase, and a book, How to Win Friends and Influence People", as well as "duct tape at a home in the 2400 block of North Bryant Avenue".

Maybe my memory's failing, but I don't seem to recall any mention of duct tape and pistol whipping in Dale Carnegie's classic. But then again the alleged perp was planning a career in "entertainment law"...

You can't make this shit up.

A University of Arizona law school student and former Miss Arizona contestant has been indicted on five felony charges for kidnapping her ex-boyfriend, holding him for ten hours in Tuscon "while torturing and robbing him", the Arizona Daily Star reports.

(link) [The Register]

07:49 /Humor | 0 comments | permanent link