WTF?

The source is pretty good, Jeremy the guitar player from my band who lives in my old building. And he says that the new Tenant, at least temporarily, in Barrtonhaus is..

Val Kilmer.

They're shooting a whole slew of hollywood flicks in the hammer. And apparently Val is needing some huge loft space.

I wonder if he's paying $1300/mo?

I wonder if he'll appreciate the Method "Sweet Water" Aroma Pill I forgot in the bedroom?

Trademark Delays Canadian iPhone

A Toronto based VoIP company "Comwave" has filed a complaint with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) over the term iPhone.

Comwave Telecom Inc. trademarked 'iPhone' for their services in 2005 claiming to have been using the term iPhone since June 2004.

The kicker is that Apple filed their trademark for October 2004. A convenient three month difference. The problem is that everyone suspected Apple to make a phone enabled version of iPod called iPhone as early as 2002. None of the archived results refer to Comwave or their products. So how do we know they existed?

Better yet there are fairly large forum discussions about the legal murkiness of the iPhone trademark relating to Apple's rumoured device back in 2002. Did Comwave read those? If I'm not mistaken part of filing a trademark is to take due diligence to find out about the term before you make it your own.

This is pretty clearly just a cash grab by a small potatoes Canadian VoIP company. Of course the company knew there was a distinct chance that Apple would come to the Canadian market with their telephone iPod, some sort of "iPhone". And grabbed the trademark after a year Apple had it, claimed 3 months prior art and sat on it until the device started to make it's way here.

I hope Comwave spends a lot of money on lawyers and loses.

'79 Buick Riviera Atari Option

'79 Buick Riviera Atari Option, originally uploaded by nfotxn.

With all the current buzz about cramming as many LCD screens as possible into over-the-top, pimped-out cars, it behooves us to remember that folks have been figuring ways to get the ever-fascinating idiot box into their rides since the dawn of time. Wait'll you get a load of Kevin's '79 "Atari Package" Buick Riviera, featuring an under-the-dash video-game system complete with a 13-inch woodgrain TV and one of those old joysticks with the single red button. The Atari Package was clearly not a factory option—John thinks that the game unit looks like a Sears clone, which didn't even become available until the early 80's. But in terms of old school cool, it doesn't get much better than this. Think you could manage Space Invaders while driving?

Via Cardomain Blog