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Here’s panel one of Josh Kramer’s funny cartoon. Follow the link for more.

Fake Banana | Significant Objects ; tip from the fabulous Siel at GreenLAGirl…

Waragi is to Ugandans what tequila is to Mexicans, vodka is to Russians, and Diet Coke is to Sarah Palin. I bought a bottle during a stopover at Entebbe airport, and conducted a video taste test when I got to Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. I’d been in the backcountry under rough conditions for [...]

Above: The world’s most beautifully designed search engine. Wikimedia Commons License.
That’s according to the very cool Typo of the Day for Librarians blog, which posts a single word each day and – by searching electronic catalogues – determines how high the chances are that it will be misspelled in those records. They also add a [...]

You can barely see the bananas on the package, and the product itself could do with a bit more banana flavor, too.
You will think I’m a lousy sourpuss for saying this, but there are WAY too many kinds of Cheerios. But that’s because you probably don’t know how many kinds: Eleven. That’s right. With the [...]

When you’re the ‘banana guy’, you’re blessed with special cheer: Gifts like these.
Item one is a massive bar of soap – about the size of a mango – with this lovely banana branding. On opening, it turns out to be a Portuguese-made beauty bar marked “confianca”, or “confidence”.
No banana scent, but the word “banana” was [...]

Got this at a Philippine grocery a few blocks from my house in Los Angeles. Price: $1.59. The lady behind the counter called it "banana ketchup," and that's pretty much what it is, with the same basic ingredients – sugar, vinegar, salt, and spices – as the tomato stuff, but with bananas substituted for the [...]

Lots of folks emailed me news items on this. Japan has gone nuts for the “Morning Banana Diet,” which promises to help you lose weight with this formula: you start in the morning with a breakfast of bananas and room-temperature water, then eat whatever you want – other than desert – the rest of the [...]

Shirt donated by the great Rich Snodsmith. Model: Gia de los Muertos.