Extreme trademarking, I'm feeling blue (tm)

http://www.dow.com/styrofoam/what.htm

Styrofoam is trademarked by the Dow Chemical Company. I am unsurprised by this; many things are semi-generic.

However, examining their footnotes you see: "**The color Blue is a Trademark of The Dow Chemical Company."

I'm unsure if they trademarked that particular colour, that colour when applied to styrofoam, the name of the colour, the name when capitalised, or what. The second would be logical.

"Microsoft decides linux's strength is in having confusingly many editions"

Six? Six? At least they're all supersets, so you don't have to choose.

Cartoon review 3 - Arlo and Janis

Cartoon review 2 is Angst Technology, but is postponed because the site seems to be being redesigned and the archives are not easily accessible.

Arlo and Janis is an honest to god newspaper cartoon about a middle aged couple called... Arlo and Janis, and their cat Ludwig and teenage son Gene. It's mostly realistic, with the humour coming from them doing day to day things and getting an amazing insight into "Oh yes, we do that too..." Occasionally he'll go off on a self-referential or absurdism riff, but for once there isn't any roleplaying.

It's been going for fifteen years, and is still fresh, and in which time, unusually, the son has grown up. Though otoh arlo and janis and ludvig have evolved artistically, but not really go older.

There's a daily strip from comics.com.

Better, there's a daily update by the author at arloandjanis.com when he makes some comments and posts a few strips per day from the old archives. (This week he's taking a break and talking about the Hurricane, but see for instance http://arloandjanis.com/juneaugust2005.htm)

They mostly stand on their own. A fairly representative sample chosen randomly from there:

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Well, I *had* the feminism tag, I had to find something to use it for...

http://www.kcrg.com/article.aspx?art_id=97850&cat_id=123

In summary, an american high-school football stadium's visitor's locker room is completely pink. Now it's a tradition, the idea being it's offputting to opposing teams.

However, a female professor says this is degrading to women. Isn't there something backwards about that?