Hands Off My Hemisphere!

I thought Microsoft trying to patent a scrolling menu for video-on-demand was pretty brazen. They've got nothing on Honeywell, which is claiming a trademark on, well… round. Round thermostats, that is. I'm actually all in favor: companies in every industry should start snapping up the basic geometric shapes, forcing competitors to design strange Dali-esque alternatives. (Via boingboing.)