10. April, 2003 - no sir, I don’t like it

• Habeas Sues Haiku Abusers who have improperly used the Habeas trademark in an effort to get their email past spam filters. Now if they could just get fax.com to quit spamming my fax machine. That finally got bad enough that I just shut the machine off. The Minnesota AG has already sued one junk faxer (the case is still going on), so they’re probably not going to go after another.
• Marketer Challenges Anti-Spam Crusader [popups]. George Allen Moore Jr., is upset that his email address, home address and phone number are available on the net, and is suing Francis Uy, who posted the information. Moore sells various crap via spam, including pirated copies of Norton Systemworks, and Symantec will probably be talking to him, and then the very next day: Ruling Backs Anti-Spam Activist [popups], saying that his posting of the home address and phone number does not constitute harassment. Cool beans. [fark! and boing boing]
• Dean has a good grumble about the press release about Quark XPress 6. Yeah. No OpenType support, but hey, they’re going to let people write for the web now. So basically Quark’s going to ship a new version and its typography will suck more than it needs to. It’ll make web-pages now, and they’ll almost certainly suck more than they need to, too. And I can’t muster the time or energy to sit down and write an application that would do things right and still be able to read and write Quark format files (which I think would be the key to knocking them off of their pedestal). Feh.
• GM pulling plug on electric cars, shutting down their EV-1 operations in CA. They’ll all be off the roads by the end of the year, most likely. [strib]
• Speaking of shutting things down, Concorde grounded for good, but they’re going out with a sale. Only $3,999 for a round-trip ticket from New York to London, and $1,999 for a one-way, with a coach-class return ticket. You have to fly before the end of summer. [some guy]
• Wireless Firms Still Fight Portable Phone Numbers [popups], but it sure looks like you’ll be able to take your number with you when you switch phone services, and maybe even before the end of the year. Naturally the phone companies hate this idea. The biggest problem with switching to a new telco is that you have to tell a bazillion people your new number. Take that friction out of the system, and you might actually see some real competition in the phone business. Horrors! [boing boing]

Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek. Last updated on Thu, 10 Apr 2003 08:00:25.