h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I don't see it as anything other than Branson (could be anyone else) doing something inane, and knowing Branson it's probably for publicity which, to me, makes it doubly cringeworthy.

I don't get dressing up. When people here do it for Halloween, and they do it big here for Halloween, I often get asked what I'm going to dress up as. What I really want to say is 'I stopped dressing up when I was about 10 years old, except for the odd drunken fancy dress party, and even those I gave up when I was out of my teens'. What I usually say is 'I don't do Halloween' (which is true) and leave it at that.

What happens in the courtroom stays in the courtroom http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22550323

It really is that simple

Why on earth does Twitter think I'd have any interest in following Victoria Beckham? There's nothing in my profile that could possibly point in that direction. I'd follow the Tea Party before I'd follow anyone called Beckham.

Oh fer cryin out loud

http://beerpulse.com/2013/05/west-sixth-brewing-says-it-was-sued-by-magic-hat-parent-for-allegedly-copying-9-logo-404/

There has been a steady stream of beery trademark-related and copyright lawsuits over the past few years but this one really takes the biscuit

Let me get this straight. Typing two Fs and an S together is something we can't do?

Yep. Silly innit. Been that way for a while now. But back in '04 I found a way around it.


Anyways, I read that and I read Magic Hat's response. I'm not sure which side is more worthy. I can almost see Magic Hat's point when you consider the type face of the 6's and 9's and the inclusion of a in each design. And that they're both beers.

It's not as bad as when Starbucks Coffee sued Lone Star Bock brewery in Galveston.

Calling Magic Hat #9 'beer' is a stretch.

Here's another one of the higher-profile trademark stories from last year http://beerpulse.com/2012/11/strange-brew-homebrew-shop-owner-on-tm-dispute-i-dont-think-i-can-handle-this-alone/

At first his side of the argument sounds reasonable, but the comments, which are quite reasonable and intelligent - unusual for a comments section these days - bring it into perspective. Frankly I think they should both be sued by the producers of the film, and by whoever's looking after the royalties for The Grateful Dead and Cream.

I agree.

" First, like it or not, their decision to copy our name is causing confusion."

More like "... their decision to copy the name we stole first is causing confusion."


If I ever start a brewery, I think I'll name it Elsinore. Shakespeare's family can then sue me.


Nevermind. http://www.elsinorebrewing.com/

There are two beers brewed locally (by different breweries) whose names are identical to the names of other beers and/or breweries in other parts of the country, and there may be others. I don't know who had the names first but for now all seems quiet.

I love how the Magic Hat comment to this says they started receiving calls from people concerned about the logo similarities!

of COURSE round logos are better for breweries - beermats are round

And it's easy to look at a beermat upside down and think the 6 is a 9 and get them confused! Sho, you're a genius

*takes a bow*

Although to be fair, we don't get too many brewery logo beermats here, like in the UK

And of course there's the opposite-side-of-the-color-wheel (not that it makes a difference to people with the stronger forms of color blindness) and super-swirly vs. lack of swirls.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22674900
"US author and Veronica Mars screenwriter Rob Thomas posted: "Netflix just emailed me that Arrested Development is online now. No one bother me for the next 7.5 hours. Hungry children - this means you."

Someone call social services and take that person's kids away please

I'm probably going to watch a few episodes tonight and tomorrow.

Hungry pets, this means you.

Five stories on the BBC's England news page today:

Festival sorry over 'graphic porn'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-22686333

Apology over £1bn tax bill blunder
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-22691970

Morrisons' poppy pin suspension row
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-22689008

Everton 'sorry' over club badge row
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-22696130

Motorists were 'wrongly prosecuted'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-22686167

That's it. The BBC news website has finally turned into a cross between The Daily Mail and a local newspaper

That's out of 19 stories, just for reference.

I don't think I've seen so many s in one story before:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-22727744

"Two young men who bragged about robbing a newsagents"

"Reece Winfield, 18, of Top Valley, Nottingham and Corey Hobson, 17, of no fixed abode, robbed cigarettes and alcohol from Ling Forest newsagents."
*Stole* cigarettes and alcohol

"CCTV footage captured their underpants showing above their low-slung trousers"

"which they were still wearing two days later when arrested in February."

"After making comments about the robbery on social media site Facebook, the pair also filmed themselves lighting and throwing a homemade petrol bomb into a Nottingham street, police said. Detectives found the video on Winfield's phone"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22905191
Scrabble app changes anger players on Facebook

Some people really need to get out more