Posted on July 4th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
Worse than highjacking… but actually naming a new tax after you! That’s right… it could have been the new “Mitel Tax” or “Entrust Tax” or “iotum Tax”. In this case, it’s The Green Shift Tax.
Green Shift happens to be a Toronto based consultancy specializing in corporate environmentalism. [...]
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Posted on January 13th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
It took Nadine and I about 20 minutes to create this Scrabulous masterpiece. Its combined worth is a mere 57… but really it’s priceless!
Since the Facebook Goldrush began last year, Scrabulous has become one of the top ten apps. No wonder. Nobody wants to play scrabble with you! Especially if you’re [...]
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Posted on November 14th, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
The SpiceWorks site and product are a dream Web 2.0 implementation. It’s a cool product that helps you better manage your IT network. They’re now giving existing customers a sneak peak at version 2.0. It’s all good, although I fear their new logo will get the wheels of trademark lawyers running “Hot”!!Tags: [...]
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Posted on September 17th, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
According to Wired, NASA is looking for a new catchier slogan to promote itself. Recently it’s had the bland “Explore, Discover, Understand”. It almost launched a new campaign with the twisted “NASA explores for answers that power our future.” On one site it boasts the math-challenged “Inspiration + Innovation + Discovery = [...]
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Posted on August 23rd, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
We stumbled upon this eBay store (strangely because this blog was getting referred traffic from it…) It’s a simple new age store selling the usual magic crystals that guarantee you money, love and well-being. No sane individual should go out the door without their crystals on… They also sell variants of hieronymous [...]
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Posted on July 3rd, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
All this small talk about programming languages drove me to the US Patent & Trademark office… Of course Sun owns the trademarks for Java, and JavaScript. Linus Torvalds used to own Linux - but this has been transfered to a dude named William Croce. David Hansson (another Fin) owns Ruby on Rails. Appropriately the non-profit [...]
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