Some interesting news (to me)

Are you willing to pay more this holiday season for "greener" products? According to a new report from Forrester (costs $ to read), there's an emerging market for "greener" consumer electronics, both energy-efficient and more environmentally friendly. The article isn't all good news as 41% are concerned about the environment but aren't willing to pay more and 47% aren't concerned yet...

So you're out in the city and need to go to the bathroom. Well, worry no more as there is a mobile service that will tell you where all the toilets are. Mizpee, a location based mobile service that tells you where to find the nearest bathroom, publicly launched today. I'll leave you with the facts as there are probably a ton of bad and dirty jokes that can be written...

"The (subpoena's) chilling effect on expressive e-commerce would frost keyboards across America. Well-founded or not, rumors of an Orwellian federal criminal investigation into the reading habits of Amazon's customers could frighten countless potential customers into canceling planned online book purchases. ... The subpoena is troubling because it permits the government to peek into the reading habits of specific individuals without their knowledge or permission. It is an unsettling and un-American scenario to envision federal agents nosing through the reading lists of law-abiding citizens while hunting for evidence against somebody else."

-- U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Crocker, in a recently unsealed ruling that led federal prosecutors to withdraw their subpoena, made in the course of a fraud investigation, for the identities of 24,000 people who bought used books on Amazon