Jason Kottke has interesting comments on a letter sent to Wordspy regarding their entry on Google as a verb. Wordspy has listed a couple of references to articles and such to back up that people use words like googling and googled in everyday conversations. However, they missed the funny one from Buffy:

Willow: "Did you google her yet?"
Xander: "Willow! She's seventeen!"

Tom Coates follows up on the story and points out that:

"When you're trained as a journalist, you're told that you have to capitalise brand-names. If you don't, the company concerned is forced to write to you requiring you to make it clear that it's a brand. If it doesn't do so - and cannot demonstrate that it's done so, then the word can be associated with any product at all."

I always figured that every company in the world strived to become the next Band-Aid, Hoover, Xerox, Kleenex, White-Out, or Frisbee. Imagine having created a product so popular that its name becomes synonymous with all similar products. But apparently this generification doesn't sit well with companies, who are desperate to protect their copyrighted name.

And the paedophilia is the new heroin meme continues as Massive Attack's 3D gets picked up accused of internet child porn offences.

Once again Well Hung At Dawn watches the Grammys. Obviously, they hate Norah Jones and Avril (but then don't we all) and refer to Nelly and Kelly Rowland as a second-tier Jay-Z and Beyonce (true dat). So it's all good. My only comment on the Grammys is that they should've let Elvis sing London Calling by himself. No offense.

The geniuses who brought you Break Stuff and American Bad Ass comment on the upcoming war.

And Walter Schreifels, who should be working on a new Rival Schools record, is working with Rebecca Schiffman (who?) and others on a record, which is out in May.
Seriously, I'd forgotten how dope Metal Hammer is. They are way more alternative than back in the day when I used to buy it for the posters.

Posted by John Fogde at February 27, 2003 02:39 PM | TrackBack