Facebook, which has gone after sites with the word "book" in their names, is also trying to trademark the word "face," according to court documents. Aaron Greenspan has asked for an extension of time to file an opposition to Facebook's attempt. Greenspan is the president and CEO of Think Computer, the developer of a mobile payments app called FaceCash. "If you search the patent database, there are thousands of marks that contain the word 'face,'" Greenspan said. "I understand where Facebook is coming from, but this move has big implications for my company and for others." http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/27/technology/facebook_trademark_face/

Oregon restaurants recently visited
Ashland: Callahan's Lodge--located just below the summit of Siskiyou Mountains--made to withstand 100 mph winds, level 8 earthquakes and 90-pound snow load, all at the same time--we had two excellent breakfasts and two excellent dinners here, including a confection which won the 2010 Oregon Chocolate Competition
Crater Lake National Park: Crater Lake Lodge
Dundee: Farm to Fork "best burgers in the world"
Eugene: King Estate--breathtaking view of Willamette Valley
Hood River: Columbia Gorge Hotel--located atop a bluff next to a waterfall
Portland: Heathman, Higgins, Pastini Pastaria, Pazzo

Less than a day after JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater made headlines with his take-this-job-and-shove-it moment at New York's JFK airport, a computer-animated version of the event appeared online. The video, which quickly garnered 600,000 views on YouTube, was courtesy of Taiwan's Next Media Animation. For about a year, the company&mdashpart of Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai's empire, New Media&mdashhas been turning out computer animations of current events, including celebrity scandals, and local news. Three years ago, Lai decided his news stories needed to be more visual. "Images can transmit information so much faster," he says. He decided to start Next Media Animation (NMA) in Taiwan, a country with a successful video-game industry and a deep pool of animators. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_36/b4193038847783.htm

The Marionberry was originally called "No. 256". It was created at Oregon State University located in Marion County, Oregon, hence the name Marionberry. It is a horticultural cross between several cane berries; the Blackberry, Red Raspberry, Olallie Berry and Texas Dewberry, to name a few. http://www.genuineoregon.com/OREGON-MARIONBERRY-PRODUCTS.html

Unusual fruits
Mayhaws a small (1/2 to 3/4 inch in diameter) crabapple-like fruit that grows on a type of thorny hawthorne tree. It ripens from mid-April to early May, from which the name, mayhaw, originated. The mayhaw is a wild native fruit tree found along river bottoms and swamps from east Texas, east to Georgia and Florida, and especially throughout Louisiana.
Paw-Paws Also known as a prairie banana, Kentucky banana, or Ozark banana, is small tree with large leaves and fruit, native to southeastern North America. Also spelled paw paw, paw-paw, and papaw.
Salmonberries They're sweet, with an orange blush when completely ripe. Small (1/2 inch across), tasty, native to the west coast, from California to Alaska and in to parts of Idaho.
Seaberries has bright yellow-orange to red berries that are 7 times higher in vitamin C than lemons.
Tayberries This is popular in Oregon, and even more popular in the UK. It comes from Scotland, in 1977, near the Tay River, when a raspberry was crossed with an Aurora trailing blackberry Or, it could be a cross between a loganberry and a black raspberry.
http://www.pickyourown.org/unusualfruits.htm

A notable piece of Rhode Island art history came to light on August 9 when workers removed Depression-era murals from a building undergoing renovation at the University of Rhode Island. The murals, by the late artist Gino Conti, had been hidden for decades beneath drywall put up during an earlier renovation inside Edwards Hall. They are bound for restoration and an eventual return to URI. A March 1941 Providence Sunday Journal story chronicled Conti’s work on the murals for what was then known as Rhode Island State College. “The six oil canvases are symbolical in character,” the paper wrote, “flat and decorative in treatment and very much stylized. Of the two largest panels, one symbolizes the drama, music and the dance; the other, the protection of youth, the striving for progress and the past.” Conti, the paper noted, received funding for the murals from the Federal Art Project, part of Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration (WPA) program that pumped government dollars into the economy. http://www.projo.com/art/content/URI_murals_08-10-10_S3JGBGA_v12.245bf88.html

rotund (ro-TUND) adjective
1. Plump; fat.
2. Round in shape.
3. Having a full-toned, resonant sound.
From Latin rotundus (round), from rota (wheel). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ret- (to run or to roll), which is also the source of rodeo, rotunda, rotate, rotary, roulette, and orotund.
sidereal (sy-DEE-ree-uhl) adjective
1. Relating to the stars.
2. Measured with reference to the apparent motion of the stars. For example, sidereal time.
From Latin sidus (star). A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg
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From: Arthur Lewis Subject: randomness
Sometimes there's no substitute for walking into a random aisle in a library and perusing what books one might bump into. I did this during doctoral exam preparation. It made the difference for one of the five questions.
From: Bucky Timothy Miller Subject: epeolatry
Next week, a gallery exhibition I am curating opens at Arizona State University's Step Gallery. The exhibition, titled Epeolatry: The Worship of Words, will feature works of art that utilize text in some significant fashion. I just wanted to thank A.Word.A.Day for the inspiration, as this is where I originally discovered the word epeolatry