Maybe the missing weapons of mass destruction were in Saddam Hussein's ipod.

Apple's crack legal department has taken steps to insure that the licensing agreement for that company's popular iTunes software contains language that prohibits the use of iTunes in "the development, design, manufacture, or production of nuclear missiles or chemical or biological weapons."

Don't laugh, I'm pretty sure that the heavy metal music my teenage son downloads from iTunes qualifies as a biological weapon.

A separate licensing agreement contains a disclaimer that puts any iTunes user on notice that the software "is not intended for use in the operation of nuclear facilities, aircraft navigation or communication systems, life support machines, or other equipment in which the failure of the Apple software could lead to death, personal injury, or severe physical or environmental damage."

Wow! I knew iTunes was powerful, groundbreaking software but I had no idea that it was that powerful!

If Steve Jobs wants to rule the world, it looks like he has the software to do it with.

Via Instapundit.

The only federal courthouse that serves two different federal districts and circuits.

As a follow up to the post below, you may not have fully appreciated the elegance of the decision by Judge Nowlin to order that the discovery deposition in that case take place on the steps of the federal courthouse in Texarkana.

That particular courthouse has the unique distinction of straddling the Texas-Arkansas border with one of the building's courtrooms located in the Eastern District of Texas and the Fifth Circuit while two others are located in the Western District of Arkansas and the Eighth Circuit.

Eugene Volokh has blogged about the potential constitutional problem if a case happens to be tried in a courtroom on the wrong side of the building.

If more lawyers are going to act like those chronicled in the preceding post, maybe more courthouses should be built like this.

An example of why leaving it up to a judge should always be a last resort.

Steve Emmert of Virginia Appellate News & Analysis blog fame was kind enough to provide me with this order (you can also click on these links for larger images of page 1 or page 2) from the case of Waggoner v. Wal Mart Stores, Inc. which aptly demonstrates the consequences of being so stubborn about mundane matters that the court is required step in, decide where your deposition will be held and humiliate both parties in the process.

Personally, I think that under these circumstances, Texarkana is an inspired choice

This is why you should clean your closet out occassionally.

Apparently, Japanese closets are so big that you can live in one undetected for more than a year.

It seems the homeowner noticed some food missing and installed surveillance cameras that he could monitor from his cell phone and discovered that a homeless woman was a long time resident of his closet.

It seems to me it would have been easier and less expensive to just look in all the closets.