Media Minutiae: Feisty Friday Edition

But pirates don’t have offices… Time Inc. will launch OfficePirates.com and venture into that previously unexplored world of people doing stupid things and putting them on the Internet. Keith Kelly says this “concept” has been under development for a year. That’s not a good sign.

WWD for all! We’re trying to find out why, exactly, we can read everything on WWD’s site today. We don’t subscribe (though we do get the newsletter), but this fluke is fascinating us. WWD IS more than “Memo Pad.” We can’t believe it, either. See for yourself!

Your BlackBerry isn’t going anywhere, sadly. Research in Motion will release backup software for its beeping and buzzing BlackBerries in case a federal court shuts down the current system. The highly charged patent case begins in two weeks. Until then, freely exercise your thumbs.

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