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Entries for Saturday, February 24, 2007

February 24, 2007

NFL Wants To Trademark A Euphemism For Its Trademark

“The league has sought to forbid advertisers from saying things like “Get a new color TV in time for the Super Bowl!”, so instead they have to use euphemisms like “The Big Game” instead. […] But advertisers may have to come up with some new euphemisms next year because now the NFL is seeking a trademark on “The Big Game”“

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Six Apart spins like a Whirling Dervish.

Suw Charman takes on SixApart over the crappy state of MovableType today. The load caused by comment spam (and their crappy “search” engine) were the main reasons why I defected to my own Django-powered system in December. (Good comments thread on this post too)

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This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.

I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.