Is your town hotter than Hell? Have some chicken wings! June 30, 2008
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In honor of the spicy, bold taste of the brand’s signature KFC Hot Wings, the world’s largest chicken chain announced today that Americans living in cities and towns that record temperatures hotter than those in Hell, Mich., have a chance to win free Hot Wings. The “Hotter than Hell” offer is for a five-day period beginning today and ending July 4.
Via Food Industry Market (Disclosure: KFC is a client of my agency)
WordPress theme for your evil business blog June 27, 2008
Posted by Wade Rockett in Intarweb, Technology.Tags: web design, Wordpress
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This awesome WordPress theme makes me desperately want to start a business blog with the tagline “I am going to kill ALL OF YOU.”
Via Kung Fu Grippe.
Canada is preserving artifacts from my childhood June 23, 2008
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During a recent business trip to Vancouver — my first visit to Canada — I stopped at a Safeway to see if I could find a boxed pastry that a Canadian friend of mine told me to look out for. I saw no Passion Flakies there, but when I took a turn through the cereal aisle I was seized with a sense of profound disorientation as I beheld something I haven’t seen since I was a kid in the 70s: Sugar Crisp cereal.
Sometime after 1979 (Lazyweb?) the cereal’s name was changed to “Super Golden Crisp” in the U.S. But not, apparently, in Canada.
Given how taboo the word “sugar” is in kid’s products now, the Canadian version felt kind of subversive to me. It opened a window onto an alternate world of strange possibilities, where the names of foods highlight their main ingredients instead of concealing them.
Player. June 15, 2008
Posted by Wade Rockett in Geek.Tags: d&d, dungeonsanddragons, Games, gaming, phoenixgames
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Me with my new copy of the 4th Edition D&D Player’s Handbook. The last time I bought one was 1980.
New Writing For Pay - Christa Terry, author and pro blogger June 14, 2008
Posted by Wade Rockett in Life.Tags: writingforpay
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I’ve posted my interviews with Christa Terry, aka “Never Teh Bride” at the blog Manolo For The Brides at Writing For Pay. Check it out!
The shows track the arc of her writing career to date thusly:
Part Two: Professional blogger
