The current ish of Wired has a long feature talking about Google's moral divining rod, personified by founder Sergey Brin. Brin trys to follow the engineer's ethos, which Google's mission statement sums up as "Don't be evil" (compare with Bare Bones Software's: "BBEdit: It Doesn't Suck"). — Read the rest

Cindy Cohn, the EFF's legal director, is fed up with Barney the Purple Dinosaur. His corporate masters are sending nasty lawyer-letters to anyone who hosts a site that lampoons the repetitive Rex, despite the clear exemption in copyright law for parodical uses. — Read the rest