Aaron: "In olden days, children used to whine to their parents and parents would reply by telling them how they have it so much better than those kids in China. In modern days, children whine on their blog and the kids in China tell them themselves."
Meanwhile, Mako gets a legitimate business inquiry from Nigeria that reads just like a 419 scam e-mail; from all accounts, ordinary Nigerians really do write e-mail in more or less the same style as the 419 scammers.
"[OPEC members] don't feel comfortable with oil above $50 a barrel because they know over the long term it starts to cause some shifts -- for example, people buying more hybrid autos, which use less gasoline." [says Rick Mueller, senior oil analyst at Energy Security Analysis in Wakefield, Mass.]
I recently mentioned the WIPO children's cartoons. They have one each about trademarks,copyrights,and patents.
Siva and Cory found that a group called the Alternative Law Forum has produced a pretty funny parody of the copyright cartoon. They're apparently working on their own versions of the patent and trademark cartoons next.
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