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The Official Selleck Waterfall Sandwich Logo

Without a doubt one of the greatest logo designs of all time.

The home of Jason Chen was raided by the police on Friday. You may recognize Chen as the editor from Gizmodo who bought a prototype iPhone from some unnamed individual who allegedly found it in a bar. Chen described the incident in a letter to Gaby Darbyshire, the COO of Gizmodo’s parent company, Gawker Media. It mentions an message which describes why a search warrant for his property would be illegal.

I asked them to see the warrant, which they quickly offered up. I then asked, because I printed out your email earlier in the day so I could access it easily if they actually did come, if they had seen the email. They said that they did, and then said that they took it int evidence. One officer said that in his 25 years of working these cases, this is the first time he’s ever seen that.

He almost seems to believe that the cop had never seen such a thing because nobody had been clever enough, rather than the fact that nobody else had been dumb enough to believe that the cops would give a shit what he says. They have a warrant. They’re going to collect the evidence no matter what you say.

Gizmodo also published a message Darbyshire sent to the detective in charge of the case. The introduction proves just how dull her legal mind is.

He tells me that he showed you an email I had sent him earlier that day that told him he should tell you that under both state and federal law, a search warrant may not be validly issued to confiscate the property of a journalist. He tells me that you ignored him and, having been inside for a few hours already, you proceeded to remove the materials despite his protestations.

Darbyshire genuinely believes that the First Amendment protects journalists against charges of grand theft. Astounding.

Gizmodo put an email link after the the article asking readers to send tips. I decided to oblige them:

Don’t buy anything that doesn’t belong to the seller.

It’s now been over a year since Apple unveiled tethering as a part of iPhone 3.0 OS. At the time, while 22 carriers around the world were announced to be supporting it, in the U.S., all Apple could say was that AT&T would be supporting it “later.”

AT&T is the only reason I don’t have an iPhone.

Today is CSS Naked Day, the day where web developer nerds like me show off their site’s semantic HTML and progressive enhancement by disabling all styling. This is the first year I’ve had a personal site, so it’s also the first year I’ve participated.

I was somewhat concerned that Tumblr would make things a bit difficult, especially since I started from an existing template. Everything seems ship-shape, though.

Satine with her favorite grass.

If you don’t have people that care about usability on your project, your project is doomed.

Jeff Atwood, Usability On The Cheap and Easy (via imperez)