Oil Execs, Morgan Webb, and Magenta

Oil Execs and Congress - Congress held its bi-annual lashing of oil execs. The exercise is mostly a waste of time as there is no way anyone is going to seriously roll back the tax breaks the companies get thanks to the oil companies heavy financial campaign contributions. This doesn't even include Bush ever allowing a cut to pass. The oil execs mostly show up out of respect and probably to get drunk, laid, and glad hand their bought congressman. Stats of note is that the main oil companies made a total of $123 billion in profits, usually work a on 9% profit margin, which is greater then most industries despite their claims to the contrary, enjoy $18 billion in US tax breaks (who knows what the total is worldwide), and basically claims innocence on all things and just wants to know why they can't do what they want (as if they already don't).

Morgan Webb on Tyra - The lovely Morgan Webb made an appearance on the Tyra Banks show to help attack a 23 year old that plays game more then his girlfriend likes. The derision from Tyra, who clearly sees games as for children only, was only reinforced by Webb but she looked good at least.


T-Mobile Sues for Magenta - Deutsche Telekom, i.e. T-Mobile, has sued Engadget Mobile for the use of the color magenta in the websites logo. Yep, not an April Fools. They really truly believe that they have a trademark ownership of a color when used in a logo. Apparently they feel their customers are so damn stupid that they would confuse a blogging website with a mobile company simply because of the use of a color in a logo. As a result of this, some websites have changed their background colors to magenta in support...sweet but missing the point since the logo is the issue, not the website background.