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So, apparently Ted Neward of JavaGeeks.com is getting harassed by Sun’s lawyers for misuse of the word Java. This is my favorite part:

We understand that Javageeks.com is not a formal business entity; however, the trademark law is concerned with the use of confusingly similar terms in connection with the distribution or advertising of any goods or services, regardless of whether those goods or services generate revenues, and regardless of whether they are used by “formal” business entities.

In other words, “We don’t care if you’re an organized entity or not, we don’t care if you’ve ever received any sort of money from anybody over the site, we don’t even care what you do (Hell, for all they care, at least according to this missive, I could be selling coffee off the website and I’m still in trademark violation, it seems), you can’t have the javageeks.com domain name.

*sigh*

I mean seriously, what’s Sun’s deal lately? Check out this unintentionally hilarious page on how people should and shouldn’t use the trademarks.

Good grief. I hope the smacktard that Ted is dealing with decides to actually LOOK at the website before his next response.

Okay, so I’m interested to hear what you guys think of HL2 thus far. The benchmark I’ve tended to use lately is Far Cry. Here’s my take:
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HL2 unlocks at 2am tomorrow morning here in Colorado…

HL2 Set to Release Same Time Across World

So the question is: stay up late, or get up early? Or just don’t bother going to work the rest of the week? Hey, I think I feel a stomach flu coming on already!