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• Ssssh, I'm Pretending To Be Coral: Tricky Fish (0)

• Freebird!: Good to see the Wall Street Journal doing some hard hitting reporting: Rock's Oldest Joke: Yelling 'Freebird!' In a Crowded Theater.
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• Nothing Like Seeing Your Hometown Paper On Fark: This story on Fark. How come everytime the York Daily Record ends up on Fark it involves farm animals?
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One of my favorite blogs, DrunkenBlog, just wrote up a horrible prank he pulled on an old friend. This is what he does to friends. I wonder what he does to his enemies.

• Smart Choices Made Easy: A few days ago, Meg and I went to the grocery store and right inside the door were were presented with a wall of potato chips:
  
  This wall is approximately 2.3 Megs tall! We stared in awe for a moment. A clerk from the store walked by and said "yeah, it does that" I wonder. Who are the giants who are taking the chips from the top of this shelf? How did they fit in the door? Is there a special "Giants who shop at Giant" door that I am not aware of?

  The Wall-O-Potato Chip was made even better by the sign hanging near the top. Here is a closer look:

  In case you can't make that out, it says "Smart Choices Made Easy." No comment. (0)

• I So Need One of These: I totally need to get this, and add it to my prius. (0)

jwz just wrote about the new Hula pen groupware from Novell. and he does a good job of explaining why Open groupware doesn't scratch any itches. or in other words:

So I said, narrow the focus. Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?

That got me a look like I had just sprouted a third head, but bear with me, because I think that it's not only crude but insightful. "How will this software get my users laid" should be on the minds of anyone writing social software (and these days, almost all software is social software).

"Social software" is about making it easy for people to do other things that make them happy: meeting, communicating, and hooking up.

Go give it a read.

• Warning: This Post May Contain Vaginal Bleeding: A friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of my wife found this funny live journal entry. I warned you. (0)