Linklicious Friday

Information and amusement for the weekend:

Manolo the Shoeblogger contemplates a pair of Burberry Tonal Check Perspex sandals and asks plaintively:

What does it mean? Tonal…Check…Perspex? It sounds less like something you would wear on your feets and more like the DARPA super secret squirrel project.

(N.B.: Perspex is a hard transparent plastic. And now it is I who must ask the rhetorical question: Four hundred ninety-five dollars for plastic shoes?) 

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Let's get meta, shall we? This is the title of a typical incendiary blog post. Be sure to read the comments. (Via Kottke.)

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Weirdest political-campaign commercial ever? Pretty sure it's this one for U.S. Senate candidate Carly "Carlyfornia" Fiorina, whose scandal-tainted tenure as HP's CEO is most charitably described as "tumultuous." The ... thing ... at 2:26 has caused the spot to be dubbed "Demon Sheep." And what's with the New Jersey-inflected voiceover? 

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Super Bowl® bloggage: Trademark lawyer Martin Schwimmer writes in the Huffington Post about "Who Dat?", the New Orleans Saints, and the NFL, which sent out cease-and-desist letters "asserting ownership by the Saints by, among other trademarks, Who Dat." (The Saints, in case you hadn't heard, are playing in the Big Game® on Sunday.) Big mistake, Schwimmer writes:

 Seemingly every elected official in New Orleans defended the shirt sellers culminating with Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) (yes, that Senator Vitter) who wrote the NFL to indicate that he was printing up his own "Who Dat say we can't print WHO Dat" shirts.

Practice pointer: try to avoid situations where an alleged patron of prostitutes can take a holier-than-thou stance with regard to your client.

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Sports fan or not, have a good weekend. Or, as linguist Arnold Zwicky writes, a chillaxious one.  "Chillaxious" is my new favorite word.

Comments

[Emily]

I think "chillaxious" is my new favorite word as well! Hope my weekend is that and then some!