Jaime Villarreal
Tired of seeing big businesses patent the length of time it takes to click twice? You could wait for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org) to litigate some of the worst offenders out of existence. Or you could turn the tables and generate your own pathetically inane and insulting patents. Just grab your favorite text file containing verbiage on some business procedure, like answering e-mail, and run it through the following code:
Add some spice by replacing "using a computer" with any sufficiently patent-friendly phrase, such as "over the Internet" or "in my bathtub." (Thankfully, this process for generating patents has not yet been patented.)
For more insights and information, visit the Web site of B. Jacobs and the kind folks at Findy Services.
Thanks to all who participated in our recent "404 error" contest. We were impressed with the creativity of all the responses. But there could be only one winner: Tom Trottier's submission wowed our judges with its blatent disregard for Web protocol, and--as promised--it's now gracing our site. Check it out here: www.nwc.com/youbetcha. Way to go, Tom!
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