double you tee eff?

Actually $15 sounds quite reasonable, compared to the $62 cardboard boxes from the other day.

Another great artist lost to insanity.

I think part of the issue has to do the lack of proper training in the web design field. For years now, print designers have had to pick up the slack when colleges refuse to train web-specific designers. Most print designers who end up doing web design are self-taught, and aren't familiar with the myriad compatibility issues between platforms and browsers.

Compounding the issue is the fact that HR departments are instructed to look for graphic designers when they really need web designers. They don't realize they are divergent fields.

Because web design is 2/3 programming and 1/3 actual design, companies should be hiring a web programmer to hard-code the website, and a web designer (or user-interface designer) to design the look and feel of the site.

The word "hard" is pretty dang obvious on the label, but people never read labels.

(Yeah, I'm a packaging designer.)

need... unicorn.... chaser......

Am I to understand there is no difference between "banana-clad" and "dressed as bananas"? I had this great mental image...

I butter my pancakes, and that's about it. Thank goodness for non-stick pans.

Freedom makes people happy. Being able to defend your freedom makes people happier.

In other news, 78% of professional artists and musicians admitted to using ‘creativity enhancing’ drugs, such as Caffeine, Ethyl Alcohol, and Tetrahydrocannabinol. Another 14% admitted to participating in dangerous behavior like driving fast and sleep deprivation to stimulate creative output. A statistically insignificant number stated they "read books", "write" and "take walks" to try to come up with new ideas.

I've worked for Thomson West (albeit as a temp packing boxes) and somehow I doubt they'd publish Oregon's Revised Statutes without being commissioned to do so.

Or else they've just been doing it for so long that nobody cares.

Or else Oregon thinks it would be better if they didn't tell one of the nation's largest publisher of law books not to make any more for them unless they order them.

Staedtler, Ontario -- fictional town named after his preferred brand of writing instruments? (They're my favorite too.)

Apples and oranges.

In my hometown of Williamson, NY most of the sweet-corn stands are honor system. I remember only one incident where someone tried to steal corn, and that was big a mistake as the stand belonged to the town judge. :-o

What better place to put such a facility than where test subjects are so readily available?

Hmmm... spies is so accusatory. What I meant is the watchdogs are being watched.

So the spies are being spied upon.

That's why I say if you want to launch a product, do it in New York, Los Angeles, or Tokyo. They'll buy anything once.

“Once in a while you come upon documents that are helpful in a case,” the Berkeley, Calif.-based lawyer added. “What’s amazing about this is that this company has a video record going back many years showing senior management in at times fairly candid situations.”

Seriously, who is going to watch years of corporate meetings in the hopes of finding some embarrassing or "incriminating" footage. I know it's Wal*Wart, and the world hates them, especially the poor folks that are forced to shop there because of their "lower prices", but it's not like they sacrifice a black cat at the start of every meeting.

Seems like this guy's found a good way to capitalize on people's paranoia.

"It's harder and harder trying to do the Lord's work in the city of Satan," McCain said.

It's possible he was drawing a word picture here, a figure of speech not to be taken literally. Of course, that's no fun is it?

When they own the information, they can bend it all they want.

- John Mayer

(If you don't understand, find out who Ted Turner is.)

Of course it's real. The ion beam would be move on a flat plane, so even though it's cutting onto a curved surface, it appears flat. Don't expect it to curve around like shrink wrap packaging.

I'm sure this guy is a great artist, with a keen eye for capturing the underbelly of society, but his captions still read like satire.

For instance:
"Boss ordering black to work with cut off fingers"
"Mink fur for the rich - death to the poor"
"Children learning white supremacy like their fathers"
"Black crucified in front of Congress"
"Ghetto children under freeways for white suburbia"

Seriously? Sure the far far left will eat this up, but I've lived in rural America most of my life, and I'm incredulous.

Also, I'm going to go way out on a limb here and guess he entered the US at Calais, Maine. (That'd be a shock for anyone visiting the "greatest nation in the world" for the first time.)

Letters don't have naughty bits.

This is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time.

Democrat solution:
Step 1: Blame Republicans.
Step 2: Stage rally to boost public support for new buses with locking panels.
Step 3: Support group for victims of bus tampering meets on Wednesday nights at the community center.
Step 4: Support group needs fundraiser.
Step 5: Conduct research to determine how widespread problem is and what the best solution is. Use lots of focus groups.
Step 6: Allow bus companies to bid on government contract for new buses with locking panels.
Step 7: Pick most expensive solution.
Step 8: Raise gas taxes to pay for new buses and associated costs. Make sure new tax increase lasts at least twice as long as needed.
Step 9: Fend off criticism about the length of time it has taken to get new buses by blaming Republicans.

Republican Solution:
Step 1: Blame Democrats for forcing transition to hybrid buses.
Step 2: Lock the panels.
Step 3: Ensure the future security of the panels by making sure an armed officer of the law is present on every bus.
Step 4: Drive SUVs.

That was kind of cool. A hot dance number featuring about 30 mall-walkers would make it cooler.

I hope that's his daughter's bedroom.

Uh... I believe it said "drug dealers, vagrants and others who shouldn't be there". Nothing about homeless. Let's try to stay on track here.

Not sure I buy it. Sounds like the kind of "news" propagated by chain emails. But that's me. I'm a skeptic.

This was a rich on rich crime, so why is it getting so much publicity?

You mean he wasn't a blonde in a red dress? Darn.

I can't believe you said Ahmadinejad looks like Jesus. Somehow I don't think Iran's premier would be happy with you.

Great looking posters. Very Target-esque.

Seriously, this whole thing could be avoided with some strategic wiretapping.

The Last Supper was a Passover supper.

I'm a little late to this discussion but....

#6 Noen You don't really expect Americans to have rational, adult views about sex do you? There is a very large segment of the population in America for whom even the slightest hint of sex must be vigorously repressed.

I fully expected that last sentence to read "There is a very large segment of the population in America for whom even the slightest hint of sex elicits juvenile laughter and dick jokes." That's probably closer to the truth.

Moderate Christians, like myself, understand that no matter what they say, people like you, Takuan, will always assume the worst about them. So why bother?

Electronic Waste? Is that like the negatively charged sub-atomic particles flowing out of my computer? Where does all that stuff go anyways?

"You are going to have some new clothes."

I got this one once and guess what? It came true!!

Ha ha, this is so fumy!

The Three Stooges Method: much like the American method, only the bill on top is passed from the left hand to the right hand, then back to the left hand on the bottom of the stack.

Oh I get it, because students have sex all the time! Ha ha ha!

Why do you guys have to make fun of people?

Music soothes the savage beast. Maybe this helps the prisoners vent their frustrations in a controlled environment. Or not.

They make these in different sizes, guys.

This is a dangerous way to protest. As far as I know, ambulances and other emergency vehicles have not been endowed with hovering capabilities, and could potentially become trapped in traffic, endangering lives. Not to mention the folks that couldn't get to their polling stations because the roads were blocked. Kids should think before they do stuff like this.

hoping to find a buyer who isn't just a rich collector...

Now there's a niche market. How do you target that?

Probably far more than you think.

I would never have imagined such a deep philosophical introspective based upon old tree-forts. Makes me wonder what people think of the myriad plywood platforms and scrap 2x4's attached to various trees in the woods behind my childhood home.

Screw this wind crap. Gravity power plants. There. I'm the first to say it. Patent it if you want.

Takuan: "638 attempts on his life...."

50 Cent got nuthin on dis gangsta.

I guess I should throw away the meat I bought at Aldi a while ago. It's almost certainly made of cows that died of natural causes.

So... 6 million titles * average 3 minutes per song = over 34 years of listening pleasure.