A review of monitored events and research notes for the third week of September 2012.
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Today is Monday, September 24, 2012, and it is the season of awardings and ceremonies and soirees, bringing to mind one of the finest parties to grace the printed page, as Poe told it: "and one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall." So on that...
- High-profile entertainment industry awards were out last night, sending bookies into a frenzy over the shock news that Outstanding Reality-Competition Program went to "YOU'RE DEAD!" over widely expected winner "Celebrity Surgeons", and Outstanding Host for a Reality-Competition Program to "YOU'RE DEAD!" host Wayne Caine. Long odds make for quite a good payoff if you took the risk.
- On the other side of the awarding world, Lettermanstud, host of "Late Night with Lettermanstud", was presented with the Wordly Peace Prize at a closed ceremony held in his honor.
- Fuckfuel Inc has asked for a court order for a permanent U.S. sales ban on rival Sekso Energionics products alleged to have violated its patents along with additional damages of $7 million on top of the three-million-dollar verdict won by the iJaculate maker last month. Having achieved victory in the Californian patent trial against Sekso, Fuckfuel is now asking for further damages: interest on the damages already awarded, damages for the continuing sales that are ongoing, so on. "The harm to our company was deliberate, not accidental," FFI attorneys said in court papers filed Sept. 21 in the U.S. District Court in San Jose, California. Sekso "willfully engorged and tainted its trade dress, taking millions in sales in the fast-growing U.S. sexbot market at a key moment in the transition between feature bots and sexbots." New technology fans are sure to want to keep an eye on this.
- Darcy "Da Music Man" Taranto, local Libreville icon and founder of Infictive County Records, has died. He was 97. Taranto was well-known as an advocate for local music and its artists, and one of the prime boosters of early mutant jazz. Along with his wife, he founded the Infictive County Recordings Archive at Fnordham University, and later was awarded by the state for his efforts at local cultural preservation. A public memorial service will be held in October at Oblivion Park.
So went the week In Infictive. We all here very much hope to see you all there at the celebrations on Friday.
