Which reminds me of this Slashdot piece about IDG’s international legal debacles in “protecting” the “For Dummies” brand. Especially noteworthy (and baseless) was their campaign against a Swede running a FAQ. Link

Also of tremendous humorosity: This letter from the Webmaster responsible for “Ulysses for Dummies” to IDG’s overzealous legal department. Link

Oh, and don’t miss “Corporate Standover Tactics for Dummies,” a great Web resource tracking IDG’s campaign against a bunch of unemployed silk-screeners in Australia. Link

Really, is there any circumstance in which such a nastygram doesn’t result in the sender looking like a hypersensitive, overly litigious, bullying idiot Dummy®?