Backreaction: Counting Atoms in a Sphere
An overview of the projects that are trying to redefine the kilogram to come up with a better standard.
Related: Round as a Baby’s . . . Nodule
Backreaction: Counting Atoms in a Sphere
An overview of the projects that are trying to redefine the kilogram to come up with a better standard.
Related: Round as a Baby’s . . . Nodule
Flickr: Light pollution: It’s not pretty
The preceding is sarcasm. Orem, UT is hardly a large city. This is intended to highlight the fact that light pollution is a problem everywhere, not just in cities with tens of millions of inhabitants.
Unlike some other forms of pollution, you can’t just pick up your photons when you’re done with them.
Act like a T-Rex: eat a lawyer.
May 8th is Act Like a T-Rex Day, legal issues permitting.
They have trademarked the word “T-REX”. Any merchandise with the word “T-REX” anywhere on it according to their Opposition, “is likely to cause confusion as to the source or origin” and “mislead consumers” doing damage to their business
I have a meager, lay understanding of copyright law (because I’ve registered a copyright and have a book listing in the copyright office database, so I’ve read a little on the topic), but I don’t understand trademark law at all. You can trademark a term that’s already in public use (T-Rex) and then keep other people from using it. I want to trademark “The” and watch the royalties flood in.
May 8th is also another holiday, but the two aren’t mutually exclusive.