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Taken by my camera phone this past weekend on my drive home:

Google-spoof

Yes, I braved traffic to pull over into the field, get out of my car, and walk over to snap a shot for everyone.  People were staring at me – I'm not sure if they thought I wanted to save the URL/number or if I was just some random nut-job taking pictures of banners.  I'm leaning towards the latter.

It appears this local church decided to use the google scheme to advertise their website.  If you go there, you'll see the same logo on their homepage.  As you can see, the font, color scheme, and even shadowing of the letters is suspiciously similar to the google homepage logo.

Not a bad advertising idea, actually, but I'm wondering if this falls under a violation of some sort?  Maybe they needn't worry as they're a non-profit religious group, but would they have a problem if instead they were advertising for a new eBay clone, or even a new local grocery store?  I guess I do need to learn a little more about copyright law…

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Show us a skull and crossbones.

Glad this vox hunt isn't sponsored by Pirates of the Caribbean 3!  Or maybe Vox is just easing us into a week of PotC3 sponsorships :)

Booknsnakefounders

I have no info on this picture.  I found it through google image search about 30 pages in (yeah, I have no life during my lunch breaks).  It was taken from infowars.com at this link.  If anyone has more info, please leave it in the comments.

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So Sears has been calling for the last month or so every afternoon before I get home from work, presumably to try to get us to buy an extended warranty on the microwave they repaired for us after the magnetron broke.  I say presumably because my wife doesn't answer the phone when the caller ID says "No Name" – it wasn't until a couple of weeks ago that I found out from her that they were calling every day, and I promptly called back and asked to be taken off their call list.  Let's compare their customer service to Bose's.  On this call:

1) They transferred me from the warranty department to the customer service department (apparently those warranty folks can't get you off the list, they can only sell you warranties)
2) I had to wait on hold for 4 minutes to get to an operator in the customer service department.
3) I had to give not only my phone #, but my entire address to get them to take me off the list.

Annoying, but worth doing to get them to stop calling.

And then….this afternoon….they called again.

Me: Hello?

Warranty Seller from Sears (WSS): Hello, is Mr. Goldberg there?

Me: I'm sorry, but I have previously asked to be taken off your call list.

WSS: When did you request this?

Me: About 2 weeks ago, I'm not sure of the exact date.

WSS: And did they do it?

Me: *speechless for about 5 seconds* …Uh…obviously NOT, if you're still calling me!

WSS: Oh, well it'll take up to 30 days sometimes.

Me: Well, I'm still not interested, so could you make another note to take me off your call list?

WSS: I'd be happy to do that, could I have you verify your address please?

Me: Nevermind, I'll just wait for my previous request to go into effect.

*click*

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I'm sort of surprised nobody has posted this yet, but here's another song I immediately think of when someone says the mp3eme is "Piano".

01_-_Billy_Joel_-_Piano_Man

Billy Joel

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