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State Farm Insurance has introduced a new iPhone DRiver Feedback app that relies on your phones GPS to “gauge your acceleration, braking and cornering habits” to generate a driver safety score. The current iteration of the software does not collect any information (just like Apple doesn’t track your location), though I can easily envision a future version of this software that results in increases/decreases in a premium based on safe driving habits. This permissive app is simply a way to normalize this type of tracking technology.

H/T Engadget

Justice Scalia prefers the term Wyomans to Wyomingite. In Montana v. Wyoming and North Dakota, Nino dropped this comical footnote to the word “Wyomans.”

*The dictionary-approved term is “Wyomingite,” which is also thename of a type of lava, see Webster’s New International Dictionary 2961 (2d ed. 1957). I believe the people of Wyoming deserve better.

H/T F1@1F from beyond the legal blogosphere.