HotOlympians.com has been shut down by the U.S. Olympic Committee.

The domain name hotolympians.com is infringing on federal trademarks. When I registered the domain name, I did some research on olympic trademarks and came to understand… that “olympic” was trademarked and “olympians” was not. I was wrong. And thus we will continue publishing under a new domain name which will be up shortly…

When asked why a local newspaper could publish a feature of an athlete right next to an advertisement, I was told that we weren’t a news operation. I was told that hotolympians.com jeapordized American athlete’s right to participate in the games.

Olympic dorks.

Oooh! The Electric Company on DVD! Well, 20 episodes, at any rate. Here’s an appreciation.

The oral arguments in Lewis v. Harris (which I watched via webcast) were so fascinating! David Buckel of Lambda Legal, attorney for the gay couples, was up first. After a few minutes of speaking, he was peppered with questions from five of the seven justices. I got nervous, because they were challenging him pretty hard. But after his time was up, it was Patrick DeAlmeida’s turn, the attorney representing New Jersey, and he was challenged even harder – at least four of the justices seemed very skeptical of his arguments. (Two of the justices didn’t speak at all.)

You never know how these things will turn out, but it looks good.