elsewhere/media relations: "i now pronounce you retailer and retailed"

Media Relations: i now pronounce you retailer and retailed/ June 3, 2009:

I am deeply amused. This makes me suspect that they were likely trying something out with Amazonfail that went very badly indeed. (So all the protesting about the "rogue cataloger in France"? Probably not so much of one, no.) At a guess, there was probably some erroneous programming, yes, and the switch got tripped far too soon -- possibly a test that was meant to be done on a backup copy of the system, and not the main public catalog. That said ... even if they were doing it for the Logo store and video content, the metadata on the items was, and remains, far too broad. But I digress.

On the whole, it looks like it's just a subsection of the Amazon catalog -- albeit a strangely invisible one....

elsewhere/grim amusements: "new hampshire says yea"

Grim Amusements: "New Hampshire Says Yea" / 2009 June 3:

And now Rhode Island stands alone in New England, the only state in the region not allowing same-sex marriage.

That said, that's probably it for a while. New York seems profoundly conflicted about what to do -- or, to be more precise, one of its chambers is devoutly and most sincerely avoiding a vote on the issue -- and it's not really on the radar for any other states at the current time. Even if it were, it's hard to imagine a place where it could be expected to pass right now....