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Darren collects strange and funny technical document illustrations in this online gallery. Funny.

Very cool site, Super Marketing: Ads from the comic books, has scanned all the ads for you to look at. Cool. I’ve been wanting to go back and look at ads since I read the book on Urban Tribes, and they were talking about having ordered the kit to make a personal hover craft from the back of a comic book.
A couple of years back, I had a sea monkeys family here at work. It was pretty disappointing, because they’re ugly little things. Not at all like the little drawings of people with with built-in crowns on their heads. Not that I expected that, really.

You may have heard that the New York Post screwed up their front page story on John Kerry’s running mate, announcing that it would be Richard Gephardt rather than the actual VP selection John Edwards. It’s now coming out that the NYP article on Gephardt was written by Fox News/NYPost owner Rupert Murdoch, who apparently frequently writes the news to suit himself, facts aside.
Fark hosts a hilarious Photoshop contest asking people to mock up other New York Post “scoops.”

And a few more quotes from my own quote pages; none of these made it to the fark site:

They cannot take away our cookie if we do not give it to them.
— Gandhi
Live, live, live! Life is a cookie, and most poor suckers are starving to death.
— Auntie Mame
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a cookie.
— Thomas Edison
If you were happy every day of your life, you wouldn’t be a human being. You’d be a cookie.
— from the movie “Heathers”
Deal with the cookies of others as gently as with your own.
— Henrichs
If you are not a part of the cookie, you are part of the problem.
— John F. Kennedy
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of cookies.
— Vince Lombardi
The thing that women have to learn is that nobody gives you a cookie. You just take it.
— Roseanne Barr
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a cookie; the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
— Mark Twain
I not only use all the cookies I have, but all I can borrow.
— Woodrow Wilson

This post dedicated to my brother Todd, who used to sleepwalk in the middle of the night and steal cookies out of the cookie tin while he was at it. Or so he claimed, anyway. I still think he was awake the whole time.
Found this link on my friend Lori’s site, thought I’d share: A Fark contest in which you replace a word in a famous quote with the word “cookie.”

“For God so loved the world, he gave his only begotten cookie…”
Cry havoc, and let slip the cookies of war!
“I know not what course others may take, but as for me: give me liberty, or give me cookies.”
“Unfortunately, no one can be told what the cookie is. You have to see it for yourself.”
“Cookie Accomplished”
“those who would trade liberty for cookies deserve neither”
“This is a cookie that will live in infamy”
“These are not the cookies you are looking for.”
“No one expects the Spanish Cookie!”
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our cookies, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
-Abraham Lincoln
“I’ll trust big cookies over big business any day.”
-Hillary Clinton
“Why if I had a cookie for everytime I heard that, I’d be a cookie-aire.”
“He’s got a cookie!
You idiots — we’ve ALL got cookies”
“Cookies. Heh! A Jedi craves not these things.”
“I came here to chew cookies and kick ass… and I’m all out of cookies”
“Can’t we all just get a cookie?”
–Rodney King

A little flash movie that tests your ability to parallel park. I think Stephanie can tell you that sometimes I have trouble with that.

A funny note posted on Craig’s List from a guy who’s kind pissed that someone sawed off the sparkplugs on his motorcycle to use them as crackpipes. I had no idea that you could use sparkplugs as crack pipes. That’s kinda interesting.