NY Times article on the neon signs of Seattle.

How about that?

There is one registration for SHOCK AND AWE, filed March 20, 2003, covering fireworks. There are 29 other applications for SHOCK AND AWE (or SHOCK & AWE), most of them filed in March or April 2003, several abandoned, many suspended.

Boing Boing criticizes Marvel’s claim of trademark in the term SUPER-HERO.

Millions, now on DVD.

Footnote 4 from P10 v. Google: ‘P10 repeatedly objects that the term ‘thumnail’ is a misnomer, even going so far as to point out that the thumbnails displayed by Google can be up to eight times the size of a person’s actual thumbnail.

One of Jason Calcanis’ blogs at Weblogs, Inc. Network, used the term SUPER BOWL GUIDE FOR DUMMIES as the title of a single blog post.
No, it did not receive a demand letter from the owners of the SUPER BOWL mark.
It got a demand letter from Wiley, owners of the FOR DUMMIES mark.…

Let’s assume you’re investigating John Q. NE3ld. I predict that you will find that he and anyone else you may be investigating has been arrested, and is generally not well though of.