Court to Review Copyright Law. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments over the constitutionality of a 1998 law that extended copyright protection by 20 years. By Amy Harmon. [New York Times: Politics]

Crucial Issues Wait in Wings for the Justices. The Supreme Court that opens its new term today is likely to produce decisions on the war on terrorism, affirmative action and campaign finance. By Linda Greenhouse. [New York Times: Politics]

Berkshire Hathaway. “If you have one well-diversified company…the liabilities can be leveled against the entire corporation.” [The Motley Fool]

A building blessed with tech success [CNET.com] – has housed Danger, Google, Paypal and Logitech [lnk.to]

Tablet PCs – the cool portables that come with a free pen. No work-life revolutions in this phase, we fear… [The Register]

Law Documents in a Nutshell. Ramakrishnan M writes “LawMeme has a two part article (more to come) on reading … [Part 1] [Part 2] [Slashdot]

Kevin, who works at Apple, says we should wire RSS up to Rendezvous. Basically when someone pops on the network who has an RSS feed, this info would be available to all people on the network. Of course as a Windows user I wanted to know if this would work for me. We’re going to look into it. [Scripting News]

This would be pretty cool, andhe natural place for this in the windows world would be UPNP attached to some, people around you concept (via messenger?) but much of the building blocks for it doesn’t exist yet here.

A lady has been awarded $29 billion from Phillip Morris due to her smoking habit leading to lung cancer.[Cnn Money]
Um… I do think that tabacco companies have large liabilities, especially to the health care industry and government, but I just don’t see this much money being appropriate for a single person.

Review: Lindows 2.0 Dissected. Bob the Knob writes “Extremetech has done an in-depth review of Lindows. The … [Slashdot]

In the early hours of the morning, .NET, Microsoft’s platform for XML Web services, saved a five-year-old boy who fell down a well in Ottumwa, Iowa. [Sam Ruby]