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Sunday, April 21, 2019

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts of the past week:

Fuck You, Pepsi, and Your Sky-Advertising Satellite Plans

jalopnik.com: If you’re like most people, at some point in your life you’ve lain on your back on the grass at night, and gazed up into the inky, never-ending blackness of the night sky, and marveled at all the stars. While you were losing yourself in vertiginous gazing, I’m sure you were probably thinking “Damn! I sure wish someone was trying to get me to buy something right now!”

The Pros and Cons of Project Management Software

www.entrepreneur.com: For people who are addicted to project management software and tools, there has never been a better time to be alive.

Task management apps, bullet journals, simple lists, Getting Things Done—busy entrepreneurs have a wealth of options from which to choose.

However, one of the foundational questions you’ll need to answer for yourself first is this: “Analog or digital?”

How emotional fears are ruining your career.

www.fastcompany.com: Fear is a powerful tool. It sends a signal to your body when danger is present and tells you when it’s time to run a way. But it can also cripple you from taking positive actions. Your mind sees the possibility of failure as a threat, and you immediately want to protect yourself by staying put and doing nothing.

Interactive dark rides or story-driven ones?

blooloop: To clarify the difference between them, typically the average “interactive” dark ride prominently features some kind of a “gun” device to allow the riders to shoot at targets and obtain a video-game style score at the end. However, not every ride uses a “weapon” theme. Some even go to great lengths to disguise the interactive device to have a non-weapon theme. Yet in the end, guests are still pointing and clicking at targets, usually to get a score.

How Tiffany & Co. Trademarked “Tiffany Blue”

Artsy: In the early 1990s, color went to court. The Chicago-based company Qualitex, which produces green-gold press pads for dry-cleaning plants, sued St. Louis’s Jacobson Products for making the same items in the same hue. The case made it to the Supreme Court, and in his opinion that favored Qualitex, who ultimately won the case, Justice Stephen Breyer wrote: “Color alone, at least sometimes, can meet the basic legal requirements for use as a trademark. It can act as a symbol that distinguishes a firm’s goods and identifies their source, without serving any other significant function.”

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