February 18, 2005

Kandoo? Do Tell

I thought the Gawker post about Pampers' new Kandoo the pooing frog was incomprehensible until I visited the site. Then I realized how traumatic a flash animation of a happy frog wiping its butt must be for a carefree, child-free...
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Microsoft Helping Orthodox Hackers' Parents Since Ten Days Ago

In "A parent's primer to computer slang," published two weeks ago by Microsoft, Orthodox Jewish parents can finally answer the question, "We thought AOL would help him. Where did we go wrong?":Non-alphanumeric characters may be combined to form letters. For...
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New Passat In Europe; New Honda Truck for Non-Truck People

Dan Neil, the LA Times car critic, gives high praise to Honda's new Ridgeline truck, aka the truck for "cool dads": It's "so scary good, so smart and so instantly likable that it's going to send everybody back to pickup...
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Posted by greg at 8:27 AM | Comments (1)