Coke trademark details

Free Trademark Search: "Description of Mark: The mark consists of the words 'COCA-COLA' against a background of bubbles and curved horizontal ribbons in various colors. Color is claimed as a feature of the mark. The curved horizontal ribbons behind the words 'COCA-COLA' are in dark red (Pantone Matching System 484) alternating with Coke Red. The curved horizontal ribbons below the words 'COCA-COLA' are in dark red (Pantone Matching System 484), silver with white dots and a white swath (the silver is Pantone Matching System 8001), Coke Red, white, and yellow (Pantone Matching System 116). The words 'COCA-COLA' are in white with edging in black and silver (the silver is Pantone Matching System 8001)."

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NFL Playoffs Pumped for iPods

Not precisely sure who the market is for day old radio broadcasts. If you can't get to a tv to watch the game, you can probably find it on the radio and hear it live. If it's the next day, you can probably find the highlights, which is usually more than enough. If you care enough about football to PURCHASE this recording, you will probably know the live score. If the recording comes with a license to reuse the broadcast as you see fit, it may be worth it for access to the soundbites.

NFL Playoffs Pumped for iPods

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) – Starting next week, football fans will have a new way to listen to games: on their iPods. The National Football League on Tuesday announced an agreement with Audible Inc., an online distributor of audiobooks and other spoken-word programming, to make recordings of this year's re-maining playoff games available for portable audio players, including Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod. The re-cordings will be available for purchase through Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple's iTunes Music Store, which has an existing relationship with Audible, and other sites that sell audio over the Internet, according to the NFL and Audible. The first recordings of football games for sale under the agreement will be this Sunday's NFL confer-ence championships, which will be available on the Internet the following morning.

Crazy US Map

"We can correct for this by making use of a cartogram, a map in which the sizes of states have been rescaled according to their population. That is, states are drawn with a size proportional not to their sheer topographic acreage -- which has little to do with politics -- but to the number of their inhabitants, states with more people appearing larger than states with fewer, regardless of their actual area on the ground. Thus, on such a map, the state of Rhode Island, with its 1.1 million inhabitants, would appear about twice the size of Wyoming, which has half a million, even though Wyoming has 60 times the acreage of Rhode Island.

Phuket Beach after Tsunami

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1009 pics and counting at flikr under the tag 'tsunami'.

PrintMe internet printing..can anyone do it..to anyone?

So I found this site about internet printing called PrintMe. Apparently, if you have your printer set up on the internet with PrintMe, you can send documents directly to it and then walk up to the printer later and just enter the code it gives you to print that particular document. I was browsing printers when it gave me this option:

http://www.printme.com/206850

If someone goes to this printer and types in the code 304711 he/she should get a printout of a picture of an F-4 Corsair I took at an airshow earlier this year. I wonder if I really sent a document to this printer. If I did, what's to stop someone from overloading it with huge files or porn?

Check it out.

THE 12 DUMBEST COVERS OF AMERICAN COMIC BOOKS

"Hey Mr. Rifleman. I've got your wood."

Christopher Swain

This is some serious dedication:

While other people bike, ride and run for causes they care about, Swain has
already swum down the Hudson River (315 miles), across Lake Champlain (129
miles) and through all 1,200 miles of the Columbia River, which rises in British
Columbia and spills into the Pacific Ocean on the coast of Washington.
Because of the polluted waterways, Swain is risking his health to further
his cause.

"The most contaminated piece of land for instance in the entire Western Hemisphere is the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southeastern Washington," Swain said. "The Columbia River flows right through it, and I swam right through there, not because I'm totally insane, but because I wanted to say, 'We should do something here.' I had seven ear infections, four bad respiratory infections. Three different times I had infections in my lymph system, lymph nodes that swelled up to golf ball size."

To prevent parasites and bacteria from making him sick, he takes a break every 600 strokes — he actually keeps count — to gargle with hydrogen peroxide.

Bank bounce check fees

Maybe it has been asked before on the internet :), but wht's the deal with bank overdraft fees? My bank told me in no uncertain terms that it is ILLEGAL to bounce a check, i.e. to write a check for which you do not have sufficient funds to honor. If this is the case, what is the legal precedent for the $25 fee imposed by the bank which can trigger a cascade of fees as other checks may or may hit my account during the shakeup?

Example #1:
Balance: $300

Check #1: $301
Result: BOUNCE ($25)
Balance: $275

Check #2: $276
Result: BOUNCE ($25)
Balance: $251 + ($576) debt

Net result: ($325)

OR

Example #2:
Balance: $301

Check #1: $276
Result: Paid ($276)
Balance: $24

Check #2: $301
Result: BOUNCE ($25)
Balance: ($1) + ($300) debt (provide the fee doesn't trigger another round of fees)

Net result: ($301)

What gives the bank the right to fine me privately when I have broken a federal or state law? I have not bounced a check in a few years and I have overdraft protection now, which is free, but this issue has always been nagging at me. If someone comes and burglarizes my home and I catch them, can I just fine them, say $6000, and then let them go?

Wow

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The file picture released by the Spanish Navy of the stricken Bahamas-flagged oil tanker Prestige, split in two, sinking 19 November 2002 about 233 kilometers off the northwestern Spanish coast.(AFP/EFE/Spanish Navy Press-HO)

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This truck is real!

International - 7300 CXT;

"Born out of a 20-ton hauler and other International ® severe service trucks used by the construction, government and waste industries, the International CXT is built on the same platform as dump trucks and snowplows. As a result, it is a vehicle unrivaled in capability, size and appearance. It hauls three times the payload of consumer pick-up trucks, is all-wheel drive, uses air brakes for unmatched stopping ability and offers towing, dumping and tilt bed capability. Additionally, it features a spacious interior with crew cab design that seats six and can be customized to meet owners’ specific needs – from paint color to air seats to flat screen TVs."

Now, go out and find a use for it.

Wife Swap 101

Amy's Robot: "There are some important parenting lessons to be learned from the show. If you are too rigid and structured and never let your kids do anything without getting your permission first, they will completely freak out when given the freedom to manage their own behavior. Witness Melissa's kids stuffing greedy handfuls of M&M's into their faces when Cindy gives them a big bowl of candy, and watching as many as possible of the 100 channels of TV they are suddenly allowed to watch. These are the kids who drown in their own vomit during the first semester of college after doing 38 tequila shots. Conversely, if you don't have any household rules at all and let your kids do absolutely anything they want, they will not develop beyond the maturity of a 3 year-old and have a hissyfit when you tell them they have to clean the bathroom."

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