http://overheard.loveneverfails.ca a little citeblog Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:52:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "When he told me about this character who could lift up a car using his 'magnetic power,' I said, 'Uh...that's Magneto.' And Tim's response was, 'Is that a person or a power?' And he immediately dropped that concept for something even cooler." Jeph Loeb on 'Heroes' executive producer Tim Kring's ... http://overheard.loveneverfails.ca/2007/hmm/ "Canada's foreign affairs minister says he wants to crack down on Chinese spies who are stealing industrial and high-technology secrets at a tremendous cost to the economy... The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has been investigating economic espionage involving China... Foreign students and scientists, business delegations and Chinese immigrants are among ... http://overheard.loveneverfails.ca/2007/redberry/ "Disney recently announced a new line of wedding gowns inspired by Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella that sell for as much $2,900." Laura M. Holson, The New York Times http://overheard.loveneverfails.ca/2007/a-princess-wedding/ "We all know that Square Enix makes the Final Fantasy games or that Capcom makes the Resident Evil games, right? Well, not exactly. One game development studio -- one of the biggest in the world, actually -- has secretly been behind a lot of the games you've played. And you've ... http://overheard.loveneverfails.ca/2007/gamings-dirty-little-secret/ "A red cross symbol is not a generic symbol for first-aid, emergency, hospitals, healthcare or medical services, products or personnel. The red cross symbol is a trademark owned by the American Red Cross and protected by federal and state trademark law, unfair competition law and anti-dilution law, and it is ... http://overheard.loveneverfails.ca/2007/red-crosses/ "What strikes you immediately playing Wii Sports -- and particularly Tennis -- is this feeling of fluidity, the feeling that subtle, organic shifts in your body's motion will lead to different results onscreen. My wife has a crosscourt slam she hits at the net that for the life of me ... http://overheard.loveneverfails.ca/2007/wii-sports/ "It shouldn't be about tolerance, it should be about respect, treating people as human beings. I don't like the word tolerance. Are you supposed to tolerate me because I'm black, or are people supposed to treat me with respect because I'm a human being?" Raptors coach Sam Mitchell, on former ... http://overheard.loveneverfails.ca/2007/human-beings/ "Dunkin’ Donuts, Starbucks and Krispy Kreme all sell pastries and caffeinated beverages, so they’re obvious competitors. But beneath that similarity, they’re serving different markets. Krispy Kreme’s customers visit only occasionally but buy dozens of donuts; that chain is peddling a dietary splurge, not daily sustenance... Starbucks chief Howard Schultz has ... http://overheard.loveneverfails.ca/2007/coffee/ "Over at the Oxford English Dictionary, the life of a new word starts out in the Reading Program department, where about 50 people spend their 9 to 5 lives gobbling up all the printed material they can get their hands on: Novels, television transcripts, song lyrics, newspapers, magazines…anything. They’re on ... http://overheard.loveneverfails.ca/2007/sounds-like-fun/ "Then something strange happened... In the First World War, the average American soldier was still two inches taller than the average German. But sometime around 1955 the situation began to reverse. The Germans and other Europeans went on to grow an extra two centimetres a decade, and some Asian populations ... http://overheard.loveneverfails.ca/2007/direction/