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Entries Tagged as 'Arcana'
Marketing Madness
March 9th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Arcana, Internet, Popular, Trademark
Tags:ad·advertisement·commercial·market·television·Trademark
Espresso Yourself
December 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Arcana, Popular
While coffee has frequently borne the brunt of various misguided souls’ animosity based on unsupported claims that it is detrimental to one’s health, it has gotten an approving nod as the world’s most popular stimulant from prince and pauper, beggarman and thief — all of whom blearily queue up at Starbucks for their morning jolt.
Patented Killers
December 14th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Arcana, Popular
In Shakespeare’s King Richard III the English monarch memorably shouts out “Off with his head!!” in the Tower of London after accusing former ally Lord Hastings of plotting to destroy him, a cry which finds its mate in modern times in the crazed screeching of Lewis Carroll’s Red Queen.
Tags:axe·guillotine·Monty Python·patent
Historical Applets
December 3rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Arcana, Popular
The love goddess then facilitated an extended bit of adultery between Paris and Helen of Troy, leading to the destruction of Ilium after a 10 year siege, Paris’ famously unpleasant death, and the world’s first soap operas — Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.
5 Books That Changed the World
November 29th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Arcana, Popular
Every child knows the story of the star-crossed Romeo & Juliet, has heard Hamlet’s midnight lament to his father’s ghost, and shivered as the witches pronounce poor Macbeth’s doom.
Superman Grows Old
November 20th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Arcana, Popular
The question of what happens to Superman as he ages was never dealt with, you know. Does he age at all if left on Sol to operate by solar power? Do his powers fade with time? Does he achieve a sort of “super” senescence that is like the hip vibe of the World’s Most Interesting Man, but lasts forever?
A Pirate’s Life For Me
November 18th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Arcana, Copyright
As all of you who have ever watched a DVD know, each Blu-Ray begins with an unskippable anti-piracy blurb that equates copyright infringement with raiding of the sort that felled the Incas and filled Billy Bones’ sea chest with doubloons. Which is only to be expected when copyright owners refer to copyright infringement as “theft.”
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