Lawyers often get it wrong when trying to protect their client’s trademarks, issuing cease and desist letters for mere mentions of a brand name and generally not understanding the laws they’re trying to protect. Copyright gets invoked incorrectly in the same manner. So how do you protect your ideas these days? Get known, and be the best, the go to gal!
Men spend more money than women. It’s true! They buy TVs and playstations and the first thing they spot in the store so they can leave, while women research and find sales and will (mostly) happily walk the shopping strip twice in a day just to make sure they’re getting the best bargain. (I don’t agree with the claim that women spend their money on making men happy though, many do but I certainly don’t!)
Best of Twilight
Piece of Me fan video. Makes me feel sad for Britney
The list of common misconceptions is a fantastic read. Putting to rest many of the uh, misconceptions, we’ve grown up with.
Bats are not blind. While most bat species do use echolocation to augment their vision, all bats have eyes and are capable of sight.
Currently rewatching the Harry Potter movies and at this very moment I’m watching The Goblet of Fire with Cedric Diggory aka Robert Pattinson aka Edward Cullen. How appropriate that this popped up on my reader right now – Harry Potter vs Twilight.
I love how with celebrity caricatures even though every feature is so exaggerated it’s still really easy to tell who it is.
Famous men crying. They all look so vulnerable! My favourite is Daniel Craig.
Buyers generally don’t care that your experience and time are worth paying for. Most only care who can do the job cheapest. That doesn’t mean the buyer is stupid, it doesn’t mean they’re a terrible person. And it’s not your place to accuse them of it.
OMFG I die. My black side zip cotton jacket is an poor substitute for this beauty.
Chickie Little has written an amazing guide on how to yum char, if you’ve always been too scared to try it because you don’t know the etiquette then you’re in luck!
Wee bit of a back story. About 6 months ago our parliament passed a bill that removed the “reasonable force” defence when disciplining children, meaning that no more horrible mothers will escape punishment when they whip their children.
Since then there has been a citizens initiated referendum asking whether people should be allowed to hit their kids (it was actually terribly worded and not at all in plain english). It wasted a whole lot of money even though it’s non-binding. A whole bunch of crazies have decided that citizen initiated referenda should be binding and there was a protest in Auckland to demonstrate their feelings.
A customers value is much more than the amount of their current purchase. So why don’t companies get this? Especially the big ones, sure my $30 a month might seem small now but what about when I have my empire and that turns into thousand per month…that you’re not going to get?
Ms Von has all the tricks. I consistently fail at using lists for productivity, and I work from home so I can’t use the first ten minutes trick, but the 20 minute timer. That sounds like gold.
The National Guard will stand outside the courthouses and force you to grow the hell up, and you will be remembered in history like those sad ugly white people yelling at the black kids coming to class.
Who you are does not have to = what you do. Most people these days realise that you may just be using your unglamorous job to pay for your hobbies, or until something better comes along, or because the economy is shit and everyone in your company was made redundant. It’s not the end of the world.
I read someone’s comment the other day that said you are not just your age, you are also all the ages that came before it. At 24 I also have the experiences of a one, two, ten, 15 and 21 year old. Which means the tactics used to sell products to a five year old will probably still work on me, just dressed up a bit. Make me want something bad enough and I will get it.
Why is it considered the height of civilization to work 8 to 10 hours a day in a mind numbing “job”, to commute 1-3 hours per day, to eat processed and manufactured food, to live in wood and steel cans isolated from mother nature and the very land base we are destroying, all to finally collapse at the end of the day in front of a brightly colored display of moving pictures and sound that feeds various violent or sexual fantasies directly into our brains, only to repeat the next day?
Michelle has turned her ongoing negative experience with a counterfeit Melissa shoe seller into a public service announcement. Some great advice if you’re looking into buying Melissa shoes, or if you’re having trouble dealing with a seller on eBay.
If you’ve spent any time at all on highly visited or commented on blogs you might have heard terms like ‘Poe’s Law’ and ‘Rule 34′ bandied about. But what does that mean, and are there any other internet rules you should know about?
Doe Deere takes us behind the scenes of a cosmetic line. Specifically the lipstick line of her Lime Crime brand. I don’t wear much makeup but I’m grateful that there are determined ladies like Deere forcing the labs and marketers to stop treating consumers like they don’t have a mind of there own. Often the only reason we buy their lipstick is because we can’t find anything we really like, not because we absolutely love it.
Jimmy Jangles made an A-Z list of his favourite NZ blogs and I’m on it. :D I love the tag line he gave me “Eats candy and makes lots of plastic Unicorns.”
As you may well know I am a big fan of microwave cooking. Jo kindly put up her recipe for microwave brownies at my request. I haven’t tried them yet as my candy stash should last me another few days. But one day soon…
Cherry picking – The act of pointing at individual cases or data that seem to confirm a particular position, while ignoring a significant portion of related cases or data that may contradict that position.
A guest post on Shapely Prose addresses a very real issue that both women and men need to talk about. A woman cannot afford to let her guard down around men she doen’t know, ever, and especially in secluded or confined areas. Every guy she meets is Schrödinger’s Rapist. This is a post that every male should read – a guy’s guide to approaching strange women without being maced.
Includes great pointers on how to read the mostly obvious signals women send.
A reversal of the roles usually assigned in rape scenarios really makes you think. Instead of thinking of rape as something that will happen to one in six women, how about realising rape is something that likely one in 60 men will commit. That means there are probably a few rapists in your area and maybe even in your circle of friends. (I don’t mean to scare monger, but it’s a very real and scary issue)
Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About is a very strange site (and an ugly one too). The writing is quite entertaining but it’s about a German woman that sounds insane and a British man that sounds like an asshole and I can’t figure out why they’re together if they hate each other so much. Utterly fascinating.
Like funny lady Sarah Von I’m a big fan of cheese. All of us cheese fans should get matching shirts…
Honestly Ed?! You’re a famous actor, if I can afford to get an actual artist to ink my skin so can you.
I moved a couple of things in my closet today and found a bunch of shoes I’d forgotten about. A few days ago I hung up some tops that were sitting on a chair and found a t shirt I thought I’d lost 6 months ago. I’m in desperate need of a purge!
These raspberry lemonade bars look amazing! A pity I’m so lazy when it comes to baking. Our kitchen is too tiny.
‽ (!?) How did I not know about the interrobang‽ Without even knowing it existed it has become my favourite symbol, I’ve just been overusing !? instead.
Can you believe Fight Club is 10 next month‽ Anyone that has seen it more than once has probably noticed the weird flashes and goings on but this 11 points list has a few on it I hadn’t caught.
I caved, gave in to the pressure, and got myself a Tumblr. The last few days have been full of pictures of tattoos, I’ve spent hours and hours looking at them. All because I want one of my own. I’ve wanted on for a long time couldn’t think of anything I wanted to tattoo on me forever. But now I think I’ve got it, so I’m collecting images of tattoos I like so I can refine my own style. Vanilla Haze will be full of those images, plus style and design I love.
With all my tattoo searches I came across a number of threads poking fun at people who have Asian character tattoos but don’t speak the language. I even came across a website dedicated to them. There are so many of these tattoos that an alphabet chart has been translating the English alphabet to Asian characters. If you know anything about Chinese and Japanese you’ll know these characters don’t work like that!
Me, Myself, and I. A much used phrase, but it’s still important to learn when to use each word. Don’t sound like a jackass.
As if Winona wasn’t funny enough with features like Don’t Show-cha Your Chocha and Martin the fashion blogging racoon. Now she’s writing lyrics.
More tattoo links. Nadia is a six year old tattoo artist! And Amanda Wachob is an older (but fancier) tattoo artist that can make you look like you have paint brushed on you.
Women test men. It’s true, whether you want to admit it or not we all test them, usually in ways we think are subtle, to see how they react. I can’t speak for the women in same sex relationships but I’d bet it happens in those too.
My Life Is Average (MLIA). Like My Life Is Fucked except it’s meant to be about everyday mediocrity. My only problem with it is that almost every post makes me read My Life Is Awesome, take a look and please tell me I’m not the only one who thinks these little things make life awesome! Who was Michelangelo? | Pancake emergency | Ninja party
I hate dealing with service people and getting appliances delivered. Seems that even a woman listed a the 26th most influential woman in media has the same problems!
Extremely bad advice. “Sometimes I see people at the gym using the machines incorrectly, occasionally in ways that could be dangerous. Should I tell them?”
Glamour publishes a photo of a beautiful size 12 model and readers go crazy. And yet, I have doubts that showing a range of body types in magazines and fashion shows will become the norm any time soon.
I’m guessing that we’re all familiar with the WTF and demotivational images that get forwarded around and posted online. Well, Cracked.com found explanations for a few of them, and the explanations are about as crazy as the pictures.
