Do you remember eating Post Alpha-Bits cereal when you were a kid? I certainly do.

One thing I distinctly remember was taking a ‘D’ or an ‘M’ or a ‘P’ and nibbling the serifs off. Mind you, this was a good quarter-century before I learned what a serif was. I must have been a typographer prodigy!

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Now let me make sure I understand this properly.

You pay over $1500 a year to have a cord strung between your house and a huge advertising company. Which connects to a huge, expensive electronic display that you paid hundreds of dollars for.

You spend all your free time passively staring at this device while it beams messages at you.

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A friend recently apologized for not sharing one of my blogposts because it would have been inappropriate for some of her readers.

That surprised me. I thought it strange that someone would apologize for not sharing something with their readers. I don’t want anyone to feel obligated to re-post my stuff.

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A recent visit to the international restaurant chain Texas Roadhouse got me thinking about the evergreen topic of corporate insensitivity.

Throughout the chain, the staff are required to do a country music line dance at least once per hour they work. That’s pretty demeaning in my eyes, but secondary to something else that wigged me out even more.

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Here is a collection of the 30 most entertaining spam subject lines I have received. Subject: Message subject Is it creative, post-modern, and self-referential, or is it just a spammer who's too stupid to be allowed to play with mass mail software? Subject: Subject lines: A bold play on our previous theme. What could the unexplained "subject lines ( Read more... )