DARUSHIMO

The damnedest things are coming up for legal disposition these days. Astronomer Carl Sagan took issue with Apple Computer’s use of his name as the code word for a project in development - and when they changed the name of the project to “butthead astronomer,” he sent the lawyers around again, apparently seeking to defend his dignity. Onetime counterculture ironist par excellence Bob Dylan took offense when Apple used “Dylan” - again as an internal project designation, not even a commercial product. (Apple contends that the name derives from the phrase “dynamic language.”)