Prescription Drug Costs and other Linkity Goodness
June 23rd, 2006From the best of my feeds:
Malcolm Gladwell calls the New York Times on their misleading story about the costs of prescription drugs.
Jason Kottke explains how brands that are so recognized actually run the risk of losing their trademarks due to people’s everyday usage of the words (did you know Escalator was a brand?)
Brad Bird’s classic The Family Dog on YouTube. Brad Bird directed Pixar’s “The Incredibles”. I remember watching the Family Dog as a kid on Stephen Spielberg’s Amazing Stories.
25 years in the making The Thief and the Cobbler (youtube playlist) is a collection an unofficial clips from a fan restoration of the world’s most ambitious animation project. Directed by Richard Williams (of Roger Rabbit fame), play all for an enchanting peek at what might have been.
Update: Cartoon Brew just posted a great interview with Garrett Gilchrist the person responsible for The Thief and the Cobbler Recobbled.
June 23rd, 2006 at 5:27 pm
In Australia we also have some brands which people use to describe the products, myself included. We use Esky to describe a cooler box to store your drinks and food, Victa for a lawnmower, Hills Hoist for the rotating clothesline and Speedos to describe swimwear.
June 23rd, 2006 at 6:42 pm
This exact thing happened to Bayer Aspirin. In some countries Aspirin is the generic name. In countries where the trademark still applies the generic name is ASA.
Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspirin