Archive for October, 2006
Monday, October 30th, 2006
Beware the mp3 player! They now come with viruses pre-installed!
Why are you and I surrounded by Idiots (In fact, sometimes I’m not sure about you….) - it’s a website - relaid a couple of reports from security lab F-Secure. Apparently in Japan, “McDonald’s Japan shipped 10,000 MP3 players as prizes in a competition they organized with Coca-Cola” which “were also preloaded with a variant […]
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Monday, October 30th, 2006
Unbranded advertising - now cartoon pushes drugs
Roche has published a press release announcing their new advertising relationship with the animated film “Happy Feet”:
Happy Feet presents a wholesome storyline in a wintry backdrop that serves as an ideal platform for communicating to consumers, especially moms, about the flu,” said McGuire. “The Flu Facts campaign represents a new approach for the industry, […]
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Monday, October 30th, 2006
Friday Diversions - Late
Yes, this is Monday. I was diverted on Friday doing things other than blogging. I like this video (Did you say blogging?), I can relate! There are people who say that you should only spend 15 mins on your posts but whole afternoons and mornings can be eaten up… There should be a health warning […]
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Thursday, October 26th, 2006
Does a good cause justify dubious IP law?
I’m not a big fan of trademarking geographical areas, more correctly ““geographical indicators”, (thank you french wine merchants who started off the whole trend) especially when it has become generic (what do you call parmesan if the Italians have their way and cheese makers can’t use that term anymore?). Even more worrying is the move […]
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Thursday, October 26th, 2006
Making new friends and cute logos
Friends4Days is a sweet little site where you get matched with someone and you can converse for four days and then decide whether you want to keep them as a friend (presumably it has to be mutual) and then you get another friend in your inbox. I’m imagining that for the most part if the […]
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Thursday, October 26th, 2006
Power to the People (Trademark)
Checked out this site and I have no idea what they do because I couldn’t get past their tagline: “This Is Your Internet! Are you ready to take control?”TM
Well if it’s my internet, why are you asserting that it’s your trademark*? It’s some P2P thing which is “patent pending”**… groan…
*The “TM” just asserts it’s […]
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Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
Stupid Catchy Scandinavians
Before the whitest guy on earth bore its tuneful way deep into my brain, there was Peter, Bjorn and John with their addictive Young Folks song. I’d managed to forget about it until that post but now I think of one and I immediately think of the other, so basically, the two songs have been […]
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Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
Pear and Almond Upside-Down Cake
It’s a bit of a tradition in our household to make a cake on a tuesday (it is actually known as “cake tuesday”) and this week I tried an upside-down pear and almond cake and it was quite yummy. I got it from Seriously Simple: Easy Recipes for Creative Cooks by Diane Rossen Worthington. She […]
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Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
No Japanese imports for you!
Just been blogged this at boymeetsgame: No Japanese Games for Europe. A HK website has been banned from selling Japanese Playstation/PSP stuff to the whole of EU. Don’t know too much about their bans on parallel importing but the judge saw no difference between the site operating from HK or operating from the EU. I […]
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Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
YouDolls - Scariest Dolls ever!
This company make custom made dolls based on a picture of a loved one: YouDolls.com - It’s All About You I won’t post a picture of the child they used because I think kids deserve some privacy even if their parents think otherwise, but she’s a pretty little thing, while her “likeness” below has to […]
