Archive for October 13th, 2006
Friday, October 13th, 2006
EU Trademark Office rejects SPAM
The European Office of Trade Marks and Designs has knocked back the application from Hormel, the maker of the ham in a can Spam, to trademark “spam” with regards to “services to avoid or suppress unsolicited emails”, and the “creation and maintenance of computer software; technical consultancy, particularly in combination with network services; [and] providing […]
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Friday, October 13th, 2006
Lucasfilm wins right to Stormtrooper costume monopoly
Star Wars: Collecting | Lucasfilm Wins Lawsuit Against Stormtrooper Pirate
The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California has awarded Lucasfilm Ltd. $20 million in damages in a copyright infringement and unfair competition case against the British firm Shepperton Design Studios and its owner, Andrew Ainsworth. The court found that Shepperton Design Studios […]
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Friday, October 13th, 2006
Sydney Uni discovers the power of the blog
There’s one called Sydney Life which is a blog of “student experience” which is predictably irritating (though less so since they’ve gotten on more bloggers), but more interestingly, academics and research groups are being encouraged to start up their own blogs so hopefully some more readable blogs might come out. You can find a list […]
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Friday, October 13th, 2006
Friday Diversions - Annoying Internet Songs
These are a little old, but my household has been singing them all week and I thought I’d share the madness.
The most annoying is the Schnappi song - the small schnappi crocodile that buries its catchi tunes deep into your neural pathways so even the smallest hint of a “snee” or a “schni” will set […]
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Friday, October 13th, 2006
No University Left Behind - A Scary Thought
In an OpEd piece in the NY Times, Eugene Hickok thinks it is a good idea that the US government to standardise/regulate/control the US tertiary system. Apparently this is a flow on from the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 which aimed to increase the performance of primary and secondary education in the US […]
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Friday, October 13th, 2006
Laws to protect Chinese workers from slave labour conditions - how shocking!
Finally China Drafts Law to Empower Unions and End Labor Abuse (New York Times)
SHANGHAI, Oct. 12 — China is planning to adopt a new law that seeks to crack down on sweatshops and protect workers’ rights by giving labor unions real power for the first time since it introduced market forces in the 1980’s.
The […]
