Dorian doodles
Perhaps archiving the various letters, notes, and other weird scraps of codexes the Inquisitor insists on picking up .
Imagine the Inquisitor hiding little notes in Dorian’s books and among the scraps for him to find at random.
Month: January 2015
300: Rise Of An Empire by Fractured Effects
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Colleen McCullough: we’ll celebrate a woman for anything, as long as it’s not her talent | Rebecca Shaw
The Australian’s obituary of Colleen McCullough is a sad reflection of how women’s lives are valued.
Obituaries are a funny thing. How do you sum up a person’s entire life in just a few words? How do you put their essence on a page, touching
on their achievements, and their greatest moments, while also keeping it
personal? The first paragraph seems to be crucial. When Bryce Courtenay, one of Australia’s most beloved and successful authors died in 2012, the Australian newspaper started out with:BRYCE Courtenay was one of Australia’s greatest storytellers, touching the hearts of millions of people around the world with 21 bestselling books including The Power of One.
Lovely. In this introduction you understand immediately that he was a
best-selling author, a great storyteller, and someone who touched the
lives of many people through his work. Seems easy enough.Yesterday, the Australian published an obituary for another beloved and best-selling Australian author, Colleen McCullough. Her obituary opened with:
COLLEEN McCullough, Australia’s best-selling author, was a charmer.
Plain of feature, and certainly overweight, she was, nevertheless, a
woman of wit and warmth. In one interview, she said: “I’ve never been
into clothes or figure and the interesting thing is I never had any
trouble attracting men.”Now, what do we learn from this introduction? The fact that she was a best-selling author is quickly tossed aside in order to discuss her looks and her success with men. In the first paragraph. Of her obituary. Which is meant to sum up her entire life. McCullough was a woman who penned The Thorn Birds, still the highest-selling Australian book of all time. After working as a neuroscientist in Sydney, she went on to write that particular book during her time in the neurology department at Yale. This is a woman who also wrote an acclaimed seven-book, methodically researched, historical series called Masters of Rome, which won her diverse fans like Newt Gingrich and Bob Carr. She is someone who accomplished an astonishing amount during her life, and here she is reduced, in a moment, to her looks and her ability to attract men.
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Why You Should Never, Ever, Ever Get A Tattoo (but Having a Baby is Fine)
I’m not super pro-tattoo or anti-tattoo. I’ve debated getting one in the past but never that seriously. But my mother is vehemently anti-tattoo. Listed below are the reasons my mother has always given me for why I shouldn’t get a tattoo.
And I understand that she’s from a different generation. And I love my mother very much. She’s a really wonderful person and I’m not saying none of them is a legitimate reason, but I’m saying that after having a child, I find it really hard to take any of them seriously. And so in case you were headed out to the tattoo parlor as we speak, here are:
10 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER, EVER, EVER GET A TATTOO ACCORDING TO MY MOTHER (but having a baby is fine)
Why You Should Never, Ever, Ever Get A Tattoo (but Having a Baby is Fine)
Google Lat Long: Google Earth Pro is now free
Over the last 10 years, businesses, scientists and hobbyists from all over the world have been using
Google Earth Pro
for everything from planning hikes to placing solar panels on rooftops.
Google Earth Pro has all the easy-to-use features and detailed imagery
of Google Earth, along with advanced tools that help you measure 3D
buildings, print high-resolution images for presentations or reports,
and record HD movies of your virtual flights around the world.Starting
today, even more people will be able to access Google Earth Pro: we’re
making it available for free.
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The NFL wants you to think these things are illegal
Yes, you can record Sunday’s game. And you can talk about it.
The Super Bowl is the NFL’s flagship event each year, and the league has invested a lot in the event’s branding and broadcasting. In light of
that investment, it’s understandable that the NFL would be protective
of its trademarks and copyrights surrounding it. But that protectiveness
has led to the NFL, and other businesses around it, perpetuating a
number of myths about what you can and can’t do with the Super
Bowl—including the words “Super Bowl.”Saying “Super Bowl” in an adWe’re already being bombarded by ads from sports bars, grocery
stores, fast-food chains, and countless other companies tying their ads
in to “The Big Game.” It’s a completely ridiculous circumlocution that
just draws attention to itself and the absurdity that is trademark law. Obviously they’re talking about the Super Bowl; they’re clearly not talking about the Cal-Stanford game, or a high-stakes poker match, or a rugby match in Twickenham.Conventional wisdom is that advertisers are avoiding calling a Super Bowl a Super Bowl because they don’t want to infringe on the NFL’s
trademark in the name. But if that’s the case, it’s because the
advertisers are being overly cautious, not because they’d actually be
doing anything illegal.The core purpose of trademark law has always been to identify the source of goods—to make sure that some competitor doesn’t try to pass off its goods as the genuine article. Over the years, that original
purpose has been added to and supplemented with other theories, but its
fundamental aim remains the same: keeping consumers from being fooled as to whether or not the trademark owner is making or endorsing the personusing the trademark without permission.This doesn’t mean that people are barred from using trademarked terms, though. Burger King can use the terms “McDonald’s” and “Big Mac” in its ads to refer to its competitor; movies and TV shows can use and display products without permission—if they make fake brands or blur them out, it’s either out of an excess of caution or in the hope that brands later become sponsors.No one is going to think that your local grocery is offering sales on chicken wings and Doritos because they’re sponsoring the Super Bowl or are representing the NFL. They’re saying “Super Bowl” because that’s how human beings refer to this Sunday’s broadcast of the National Football League’s championship game. And they’re allowed to speak like human beings, just like you and I are free to talk, tweet, and text about the game.
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