By the Beachwood Language Affairs Desk

“This Trademark Checklist is a handy guide to some of the best known federally registered U.S. trademarks. This list is a sample of the International Trademark Association’s (INTA) list of nearly 3,000 trademarks and service marks with their generic terms.”
747 airplanes and structural parts thereof
Absolut vodka
Academy Awards annual award program
Ajax soap and household cleaner
Atkins Diet food supplements
Balderdash word and board games
Band-Aid adhesive bandages
Black Hawk military helicopter
Blistex medicated lip ointment
Bon Bons ice cream
Books On Tape pre-recorded audio cassette tapes
BOTOX injections for pharmaceutical and cosmetic purposes
Brita water filtering units
Bubble Wrap cellular cushioning packaging material
Budget renting and leasing of motor vehicles
Butterball poultry

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Posted on May 31, 2006

By Tim Willette

The World Is Flat – A Brief History of the
Twenty-First Century
by Thomas L. Friedman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 496 pp.
ISBN: 0374292884
Everyone get global! 2004! Better lot! American
products wanted! Bangalore call center! Indian phone
work! Chinese supply chain! UPS! Free market! India,
China, America! Even Muslim customers use internet!
See! Flattening forces started! Web went economic!
Information business! Big science! Research come home!
Need money now!
Employees own two percent! Another first! Able workers
got down!
University! Computer school! People should go!
Knowledge good! Young really know! Different software!
Still, things take time! Think government! Want
service today! Right, say companies! Million years!
Countries going! Technology put states between jobs!
Best part next! New day! Flat system! Whole world
united! These are the 100 most frequently used words in
this book!

Posted on May 22, 2006

By Steve Rhodes

A group of clergymen in Chicago, appalled at the fruits of planned city rebuilding there, asked,
Could Job have been thinking of Chicago when he wrote:
Here are men that alter their neighbor’s landmark . . . shoulder the poor aside, conspire to oppress the friendless
Reap they the field that is none of theirs, strip they the vineyard wrongfully seized from its owner . . .
A cry goes up from the city streets, where wounded men lie groaning . . .

– from the Introduction to Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961)
The passing last week of Jane Jacobs, whose The Death and Life of Great American Cities exposed the folly of Establishment urban planning while arguing persuasively for the small, sacred triumphs of organic serendipity from which most great neighborhoods spring, spawned an array of commentaries at times grudging and beside the point, or failed to really connect with conditions today parallel to what Jacobs railed against so many years ago and throughout her life.

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Posted on May 1, 2006