Virtual Flaneurism

Most adorable ad of the year, hands down.

This makes me want to play this game (but not on a DS):

I was going to discuss Dan Adler's fiscal policy, but I'm afraid a bitter old woman will interrupt me to shout out her ethnicity.

From Shiver me Jimbers:

I adore the title of this short item:

Kids Are Dumb, Think Cartoons Make Cereal Taste Better

A new study confirms that marketing has a tremendous influence over kids (or they just have a hankering for delicious penguins). University of Pennsylvania researchers gave 80 children, ages 4 though 6, a "new" cereal from one of four boxes. The cereals were called Sugar Bits and Healthy bits, and one box of each type featured characters from Happy Feet while the other had no characters on the package. Kids who had cereal from the boxes with cartoons said it tasted better than the kids who ate from the plain box. Surprisingly, they liked Healthy Bits more than Sugar Bits, but the illustration on the box was still the most important factor. "When there was a character on the box, they liked the cereal a lot, and it didn't matter what the name of the cereal was," says lead author Sarah Vaala. "Once you put a character on the box, that overrides their judgment of the health merits of the food."

I've just been running around town, first actually on a run, then to a meeting, after to hand in imminently due stipend applications, photocopy event signs. I have to register for classes today, and I've done zero required reading, and the first thing I think upon sitting down? MUST UPDATE BLOG.

Serious fail.

PS. Bigger fail is that I have a tag on this blog for "bags".