ACROSS THE BOARD : BIZ BYTES.Want a piece of the millennium? You better move fast. Businesses across the country are snapping up federal trademark rights to the phrases, symbols and slogans that will ring in 2000 and 2001. No matter how you spell it, the word millennium - one l, two n's; two l's, one n, etc. - is nearly gone. Even the plural PLURAL. A term used in grammar, which signifies more than one. 2. Sometimes, however, it may be so expressed that it means only one, as, if a man were to devise to another all he was worth, if he, the testator, died without children, and he died leaving one , ``millennia,'' is a hot commodity. Multinational companies and rookie entrepreneurs alike have applied for legal possession of phrases such as ``Year 2000,'' ``Class of 2000'' and ``Y2K See Y2K problem and Y2K compliant. Y2K - Year 2000 .'' More than 1,500 businesses own, in one form or another, the number ``2000.'' Among the more creative trademarks: Miller Brewing Co.: ``Official Sponsor of the Millerennium.'' M&M's candies: ``Official Things of the Millennium.'' Playboy magazine: ``The Magazine of the Millennium.'' Site of the week FAR-OUT.COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. : We don't often promote potential whackos, especially when they take their roadshows to the Internet. But a Web site designed by Oscar-nominated visual effects supervisor Jon Farhat is sure to tickle See Tcl/Tk and tickle packet. (text, tool) Tickle - A text editor, file translator and TCL interpreter for the Macintosh. Version 5.0v1. The text editor breaks the 32K limit (like MPW). the fancy of anyone even slightly inclined to X-file-style conspiracy theories ''This is a list of conspiracy theories; it contains alleged conspiracies that are not accepted by mainstream academics. For a discussion of conspiracy theories in general, see conspiracy theory. . At www.boblazer.com, Farhat has put together a multimedia collection meant to prove once and for all the existence of extraterastrial life, drawing on Farhat's visual skills already demonstrated in ``The Mask,'' ``The Nutty Professor'' and ``Liar, Liar.'' |
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