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Back in 2011, I wrote a series of articles about a battle between advocates of urban farming and the Dervaes family of Pasadena. The Dervaeses have received international attention for turning their home into an farming wonderland, but the family at the time was going after anyone and everyone who was using the terms “urban …

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Another fantabulous week at Stick a Fork in It, with stories suited for the Diggers, Forkers, and Know Nothings among you! Highlights after the jump! ] Anne Marie hung with Maw'N'Paw Kettlekorn, found a delicious quick-order pita in Fullerton, and gave Parties by Panache another day in our OC sun after their game effort in …

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Remember that humongous controversy earlier this year when a weirdo Pasadena family not only successfully got a trademark for the term “urban homesteading” (used in American English for decades), but began sending threatening legal letters to entities who used the term? It created a massive backlash that actually emboldened urban homesteaders to use the term …

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UPDATE, FEB. 21, 11:04 A.M.: As promised, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has thrown down the legal gauntlet. “The Dervaes Institute should recognize that this is one community that will not be intimidated, cease its heavy-handed tactics, and take steps to repair the damage it has caused,” writes EFF intellectual-property director Corynne McSherry. Her legal …

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For the latest on this story, click here… UPDATED, 10:50 P.M. Those dingbat Dervaeses won't give up. Rather than take their licking and apologize to the authors, bloggers, and libraries who dared use the term “urban homestead” or “urban homesteading,” they're still blogging and trying to justify the unjustifiable: the cutthroat capitalism that the supposedly …

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Today is something called National Taco Day, which is a total bullshit holiday made up in 2000 by Chuy's in Austin. It started as a marketing ploy, and Chuy's actually filed a trademark application for it, but it let its rights to the term slip, meaning hundreds of lazy bloggers and reporters can now tell …

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Nathan Heller hates pie, and he thinks you should too. He penned a long screed for Slate–I'd call it a jeremiad except I fell asleep reading it, and “jeremiad” implies a vigor that's lacking in the article–about how the pie is un-American and unworthy of our ongoing, cyclical fetishes of it. Nathan Heller needs to …

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