Friday, 26 May 2000

“Joint” custody is anything but. “Joint” custody in the U.S. usually means that children live with one parent all the time and get to “visit” with the other parent at the primary custodial parent’s whims.

Thursday, 25 May 2000

Concerned about violence and children, U.S. lawmakers met with representatives from several major retail stores (Sears, KMart, Montgomery Ward,etc) urging them to stop selling violent videogames to children. No word yet on whether K-Mart is planning to stop selling guns as well. Showing previous sensitivity to consumers complaints on this issue, Sears and Montgomery Ward’s fairly recently stopped selling guns in their stores and Sears even pulled a trench-coated villian action figure from it’s catalogs and stores last fall after receiving complaints that it too closely resembled the Columbine murderers.

Thursday, 25 May 2000

Forget all you knew about browsing techniques and other searching tips and tricks and run out and buy a quantum computer so you can be ready for the latest in high precision searching.

Wednesday, 24 May 2000

Ever wonder how those funky unnatural looking URLs (you know the ones, the ones that spammers and scammers seem to love to use) work? [link]

Monday, 22 May 2000

The Federal Trade Commission today published Dot Com Disclosures, a document detailing how FTC advertising laws apply to internet advertising.