Daily Archives: August 17, 2011

Sideband #37: Joining the Group

A recent Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic set off “Ah, Yes!” bells today. It explains graphically and precisely why I’m so allergic to trendy:

from SMBC by Zach Weiner

Or as great Groucho Marx so famously put it, “I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.”

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Sideband #36: 3000 Bottlecaps

Some things are so cool that you just have to participate in the whole viral, retweety, rebloggy, “did you see this” thing and pass it on to everyone you know.  As I’ve said before, I’m not normally a big fan of advertising (lies, more lies and damned lies), but sometimes they really do hit it out of the park:

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