Other Crap

FedEx threatens to file lawsuit against some dude who made furniture from their shipping boxes.

• It's a pretty good story. The guy took down his website after getting the letter from FedEx, but his lawyers actually told him to put it back up. Lawyers tend to be very cautious in such a case, so they are obviously so confident of their grounds that they are blatantly daring FedEx to sue. Read the letter from FedEx for a good laugh! Among other wild arguments, FedEx said that Avila clearly intended to operate a business from his website because he used the .com domain suffix, the "commercial level domain," rather than .net!!