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The USPTO refused to register the mark shown below left, for "Back packs; fanny packs; tote bags" and for "“Clothing, namely, aprons, t-shirts, sweatshirts, and hats," finding confusion likely with the registered mark shown below right, for, inter alia, backpacks and t-shirts. The goods are in-part identical and those goods presumably travel in the same trade channels to the same classes of consumers. But what about the marks? How do …

What's a ktls I started work on ktls and ktls-sys, a pair of crates exposing Kernel TLS offload to Rust, about two years ago. kTLS lets the kernel (and, in turn, any network interface that supports it) take care of encryption, framing, etc., for the entire duration of a TLS connection... as soon as you have a TLS connection. For the handshake itself (hellos, change cipher, encrypted extensions, certificate verification, …

James Merchant and Robert Martin, eds. Public Health Impacts of Industrial Farm Animal Production. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024. I served on the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production with both authors about 15 years ago and was happy to do a blurb for their book. This hard-hitting book defies meat industry pressure and obfuscation to document the devastating effects of its current production methods on the quality of …

More and more, I'm finding that I just like to "be". Rushing from location to location is fun and exciting, but there's something to be said for taking the time to experience a place.

WelcomeYesterday we played in Ōtautahi, and I recorded my 500th tour breakfast. In order to celebrate an important milestone this blog post will be exactly 500 words long. No one knows when the blog began. It must have been two years ago, at least, perhaps even longer. All we know is that Breakfast and Travel Updates began 499 posts ago as a write-home service for members of the tour party, …

As I retreat from the socials, something I have been wondering about is how much of the frenetic, restless, too-much feeling I get from them is a product of the algos and the corporate incentives, and how much of it might just be something we’re doing. Here, Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy consider a related question: Quite often—for good and bad—changes are driven by or originate in user innovations that …

The Game Forever Home is a game about dog shelters. You work at a dog shelter. You train dogs and find new homes for them. This is a game dog lovers will enjoy. It is a light to mid weight family strategy game. This is the main game board. The four cards on top are four different locations you can send the dogs to - the city, the suburbs, the …

We’ve noted an increase in smaller page sizes and fewer pages recently, as publishers respond to increased production costs. But that doesn’t mean a magazine can’t make the most of print. The 40th episode of our podcast features two publishers that have done exactly that with their magazines: Danielle Pender from Riposte Editions and Kai von Rabenau at mono.kultur. The Riposte publication is an entirely new proposition, with a new …

If you are inspired by the Great River Race to have a go in a Dragon Boat, there is an opportunity by attending the Wave Walkers Dragon Boat Team Open Day at the Docklands Sailing and Watersports Centre, Westferry Rd E14 3QS on Sunday 6th October 11am – 2pm. Wave Walkers is the first and only Dragon Boat team in London set up to support people affected by cancer, be …

Osprey with fresh catch. (click to enlarge)Olympus E-M1 Mark III; 300mm f/4 lens; 1/2000th sec. @ f/4.5; ISO 400I'm sure almost everyone reading this post has owned more than one camera and more than one lens. A simple question for you. Is there any photography gear you have owned and then sold that you wish you hadn't? Why?I can only think of one piece of kit that I sold that …

WATCH: “This experience helped me see how Black women like me die needlessly… This is government and political interference in private health care decisions…”Kaitlyn Joshua testified powerfully about how Republican abortion bans almost killed her. #ForcedBirthNation pic.twitter.com/bbD8XL8rTo— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) September 24, 2024 Before 2022, the typical media representation of abortion generally involved a woman, more often than not single, who unexpectedly found herself pregnant. The issue was often …

A new musical about the proposed, controversial disposal of oil company Shell’s Brent Spar oil storage facility in 1995 has inspired Glasgow theatre company Sleeping Warrior’s latest musical. The demise of the giant, rusting, yellow monolith rising 135 meters above the North Sea sparked a global media storm, prompting both public and political protest that included the boycotting of Shell petrol stations, physical assaults, and an arson attack against Shell …

This is the 57th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Justin Duke and his blog, jmduke.com I'm particularly happy to have Justin as a guest on P&B because in addition to be a person with a blog—something I clearly appreciate—he's the founder of Buttondown, a service I used since 2019 and the one used …

a faint trail that leads into the woods in austin, texas. it runs down the middle of a clearing in a residential area. across the bottom of the picture sit a bunch of large rocks creating a border. hey! who put those rocks there? Social service organizations, like nonprofits and foundations, love resiliency! In their world, resiliency means a person’s ability to bounce back after a crisis. A person might …