October, 2006
We promise not to be evil.
But we can’t speak for our lawyers.
Google’s oft-quoted credo “don’t be evil” started looking rather quaint last week with the appearance of a gentle suggestion on the Google blog that we try to refrain from using “Google” as a verb, particularly to signify an action taken on a competitor’s search engine. Apparently it makes the trademark lawyers uncomfortable. And you can [...]
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Posted on 29th October 2006Comments Off
Tideland
I think it’s cheating for a filmmaker to tell his audience how to watch his film, what preconceptions to abandon, what kind of perspective to adopt in advance — but rules are implicit in “cheating,” and Terry Gilliam is not a great proponent of rules. In fact, if there are rules covering how to introduce [...]
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Posted on 22nd October 2006Comments Off