It’s amazing what they’re publishing in For Dummies books these days… I almost wish I had made this up:
This just makes me laugh. The fact that it’s for real just makes this that much more irrationally funny to me…
Category: Imagery
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Check out today’s Pearls Before Swine
So, yeah. Go check it out. It’s funny.
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Simpson’s Scooby!
I warned you there was more coming.
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Unfortunate ad placement on Bend.com…
Is it just me, or does this particular ad placement on the Bend.com article pictured below seem really… I don’t know, juvenile? Not to mention, wrong.
Click for full sizeIt just hasn’t been the same since Barney left.
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Mugshot
I can’t help it, but this is just so weirdly funny. Bend man robs liquor store: this is not the funny part. The funny part is the guy’s mugshot:
This dude looks like the love child of Rodney Dangerfield and Bob Marley or something!
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Copying Starbucks
Boing Boing reports than an Astoria, Oregon woman has been ruled to be in violation of Starbucks trademark, when she opened a coffee shop named after herself: Sambucks.
Note to Starbucks: get over it.
Anyway, this reminded me of a coffee shop we saw when we were in Vancouver, B.C. earlier this year, that was obviously copying Starbucks. It was pretty clever, yet I don’t think Starbucks could do anything about it:
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The Brew Site is a source for Topix.net news
This is very cool: The Brew Site is being used as a news source for Topix.net, a news aggregator site that pulls news from sources all over the web—and just added blogs recently as a source. I saw my Stone Age Beer article show up on the Topix.net Beer News page (screen grabbed below).
I don’t know why, but this seems to add a feeling of legitimacy to this whole blogging thing.
:)
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Peanuts philosophy
This panel from my daily Peanuts calendar struck me as being pretty philosophically deep for Charlie Brown.
