Michael Kinsley is leaving Slate.

More on the BT ‘hyperlink patent’ case.

Wired News: Judge Dubious About Link Patent. But a federal judge with a laptop on her desk warned that it may be difficult to prove that a patent filed in 1976, when today’s Internet was barely imagined, somehow applies to modern computers. “The language is archaic,” said U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon. “It’s like reading Old English.” [Tomalak’s Realm]

As an Irish citizen, I’ve never taken that much interest in the British royal family — they’re not my problem, as it were. But the flood of photographs of the Queen and her late sister unleashed by the latter’s death has reminded me that they and I have one thing in common — an admiration for the Leica M-series rangefinder camera. Whenever they wanted to take a picture, out came the M4s with 50mm Summicrons. But then, they can afford that kind of exotic stuff…