Apparently that Knighthood app on facebook got deleted as a privacy violation , UPDATE: as ben points out in the 2nd comment below: temporarily turned off because facebook’s “dbs were getting crushed.”
REPORT THIS APPLICATION AS PRIVACY VIOLATION!!!
by Elena at 1:36am
Webster’s New Millenium Dictionary of English has embiggened itself with this cromulent definition:
| Main Entry: | cromulent |
| Part of Speech: | adj |
| Definition: | fine, acceptable |
| Usage: | slang |
Webster’s New Millennium™ Dictionary of English, Preview Edition (v 0.9.7)
Copyright © 2003-2008 Lexico Publishing Group, LLC
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=cromulent
Here’s the reference for the pop culture impaired.
Really. I mean, we all knew that no truly novel question was going to be answered, the teachers often had no clue what the scientific method was, and grades were usually assigned based on how pretty one’s display was.
That being said, some projects are even worse than others. One wonders just what the teachers thought- or how some of these ideas got through in the first place. Though given that one elementary school classmate’s project was called “Astro Ants and Astro Gerbil” and involved sending the family pet up as the payload of a model rocket, I guess I really can’t be too surprised.
There have been quite a few songs in the past couple years which are either remakes of or heavily inspired by stuff from the early 80s. Off the top of my head:
“Talk” by Coldplay, a remake of “Computer Love” by Kraftwerk. This is my favorite of the new remakes, and Partyben’s mashup of the two songs is just plain brilliant.
“SOS” by Rihanna, a remake of “Tainted Love” by Soft Cell. I think Soft Cell’s version was actually a remake of an even earlier version, though I don’t know who offhand. Now, as long as Rihanna doesn’t decide to continue taking riffs off of Soft Cell, she’ll be fine. I think Soft Cell’s use of chainsaws and naked dwarves in the video for their followup single “Sex Dwarf” was the quickest torpedoing of a career the early 80s had seen- and you gotta remember this was the age of Nena and A Flock of Seagulls.
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Many of you may have heard of the Facebook application called Scrabulous. The board and the rules are clearly a trademark violation of Hasbro’s U.S. rights and Mattel’s worldwide rights.
However, Scrabulous was trademarked last year by an Australian company entitled Imagination Holdings, which must have cut some sort of deal with the Agarwalla brothers. (Btw, here’s Jayant Agarwalla’s page on AllExperts.com where he offers expert advice on Scrabble. It’s not known if his knowledge applies to intellectual property law though.)
It appears that they are attempting to have the Scrabulous name refer to all sorts of electronic and online gaming. An interesting strategy and we’ll just have to wait and see how it all plays out.
It should be noted that the: Current Status: A non-final action has been mailed. This is a letter from the examining attorney requesting additional information and/or making an initial refusal. However, no final determination as to the registrability of the mark has been made.
For those who enjoy “Intellectual Property” history, here are the 1948 and 2007 trademark filings of the two competing factions from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: (The 1947 one is by the original maker of Scrabble before Selchow and Righter ,and then later, Hasbro obtained the rights.
If you catch a Chinchilla in Chile
And cut off its beard, willy-nilly
You can honestly say
That you have just made
A Chilean Chinchilla’s chin chilly
A preoccupied vegan named Hugh
picked up the wrong sandwich to chew.
He took a big bite
before spitting, in fright,
“OMG, WTF, BBQ!”
Find more at the Limerick DB
http://www.electoral-vote.com/
has some really interesting poll results at the bottom of their current page:
These are for head to head matchups of the remaining 4 likely nominees.
Finally, Cook/RT Strategies just released some head-to-head polls for the
general election. Here they are.
| Democrat | Pct | Republican | Pct |
| Clinton | 41 | McCain | 45 |
| Obama | 45 | McCain | 43 |
| Clinton | 48 | Romney | 42 |
| Obama | 50 | Romney | 41 |
If McCain is the GOP nominee, he beats Clinton but loses narrowly to Obama.
If Romney is the GOP nominee, it will be a rout.
But November is a LOOOONG ways away. A lot can change.
This is a great idea. It’s a clock that donates YOUR money to an organization you dislike if you hit the snooze button. How rad is that?
Common Usage Suggestions!
Are you a butcher? Set your Sn?zNL?z to donate to PETA
Are you a republican? Set your Sn?zNL?z to donate to the ACLU!
Are you a land developer? Set your Sn?zNL?z to donate to the Wilderness Society!
Enjoy your freedom? (Blue state version) Set your Sn?zNL?z to donate to the GOP. or
Enjoy your freedom? (Red state version) Set your Sn?zNL?z to donate to MoveOn.Org
Are you a hippie? Set your Sn?zNL?z to donate to the American Coal Foundation.
Are you a Ninja? Set your Sn?zNL?z to donate to, hrrrm, we can’t find a Pirate Charity at the moment. But there must be one…somewhere…anyways, the point is it’s easy to setup once you identify your enemy!
Not much to say here, but just how awesome this is.
Knock knock!
Who’s that knockin’ at my door?!
I’m fuh!
I’m fuh who?!
I’m fuckin’ Matt Damon!
