For May 31st

This guy is really sick of Pachelbel's Canon.


- posted by Don Porges @ 5/31/2007 12:05:00 AM |

 
Don't Even Think About the Super Bowl

...or you'll have to pay the NFL, if they have their way.

Step 1: The NFL trademarks "Super Bowl".

Step 2: The NFL licenses out its trademark to just about any product category there is.

Step 3: To protect its licensees, the NFL polices all commercial uses of "Super Bowl". A sports bar can't advertise a Super Bowl special if they aren't a "Super Bowl" licensee.

Step 4: Businesses, being fluent in the English language, begin advertising the parties/events they're hosting for the "big game", Sunday, February Whosis.

Step 5: Feb, 2006: The NFL attempts to trademark "The Big Game". ("Disclaimer NO CLAIM IS MADE TO THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE "GAME" APART FROM THE MARK AS SHOWN")

Step 6: Now. The NFL gives up on that. Not because it's stupid, mind you, but because the Stanford/California game has been called that for over a century. They say they may re-file with language clarifying that they "only" claim a trademark on "The Big Game" as a synonym for the Super Bowl.

If Harvard and Yale get in on this, it's gonna be trouble.

- posted by Don Porges @ 5/29/2007 11:51:00 PM |

 
What's Kuroko?

This. (Don't bail out before the halfway point just because you think you get the idea.)

Or, slicked up a little, this.

And this.
- posted by Don Porges @ 5/29/2007 09:43:00 PM |

 
Breaking News!

Kerry said to weigh politics in 2002 vote

- posted by Don Porges @ 5/28/2007 11:02:00 AM |

 
There Are a Lot of Dr. Pepper Imitators

As seen here.
- posted by Don Porges @ 5/20/2007 03:12:00 PM |

 
Mt. Auburn Hospital

Possible general rule: don't trust a hospital named after a cemetery.
- posted by Don Porges @ 5/19/2007 05:21:00 PM |

 
Not Surprising

Bloc head: 'I made a mistake'

-- Toronto Star
- posted by Don Porges @ 5/14/2007 05:15:00 PM |

 
Bunnies!


- posted by Don Porges @ 5/12/2007 06:17:00 PM |

 
And the Number One Fan Fiction I Never Want to Read....[drum roll]

...is described in "150 Years of Mary Sue":

The author of most of the "Baccarat Figurines" series in X-Files fan fiction makes no secret of his (the author is presumed by many readers to be male) admiration of Skinner "the hunk"; his weepy, sulky Mulder is infantilized by Skinner, who calls him "baby" and is charmed "that someone that tall could make himself so small and cuddly," as Mulder "cuddles on [Skinner's] chest ... his usual pose with him"; when the two watch cartoons while waiting for Mulder's pre-sex enema to take effect, "Mulder [is] the one paying more attention." The stories struck appalled readers as "characterization *defilement*."

- posted by Don Porges @ 5/08/2007 12:42:00 AM |

 

Royals To Get A Taste Of Angels' Colon

Actual headline. Via Ken Levine.
- posted by Don Porges @ 5/06/2007 12:40:00 AM |

 
Stable Condition

I don't think this story is going to "develop" much, so you? Click to enlarge because I couldn't figure out how to make it both bigger and still legible. From the Boston Globe.


- posted by Don Porges @ 5/03/2007 12:36:00 PM |