Never give up. Never surrender.

Okay, maybe just this once.

It is not yet known whether the Transportation Department plans to compensate by issuing each NYC resident one additional middle finger.

Giving directions is hard!

Probably a good thing the In sign is ready for replacement.

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Click to enlarge, if you haven't already. And no, that wasn't me who tried to claw it off the door.

Two Graphic Reminders

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Pics swiped from Strong Intelligent Women Choosing Equality & Freedom Instead Of Religion, on Facebook, via Rita Matthews.

Line of the Day: 2011-12-01

Swiped from Lee Fang's Second Alarm.

Black and Blitt

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(artists: R. Black | Barry Blitt)

Holey Picture and Other Signs of Our Times

Happy Sunday!

Swiped from Photobombing.net, which you shouldn't visit if you've told yourself you're just about to get off the computer.

(Permalinks for individual posts where pix were found: 1, 2, 3.)

I are a restaurant

Came across an old bookmark, from a past session of ego-surfing, I expect. I are now closed, sadly, although it looks like I have been replaced by the Yucatan Taco Stand, which is way more fun to say.

I still live in Google Street View, however!

Click the first two pics to embiggen.

This one turns into noise if you try to blow it up any further, so I'm just going to declare that, according to the fine print, I was once an American Bistro.

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[Added] Probably a bit too late for me (the restaurant), but I'm told that Google Street View may soon allow you to walk into various places of business, virtually. Here's a short video report from Newsy on that. (Sorry not to have embedded it, but it is too wide to fit in this blog's posting space, and it does not appear to be resizeable.)

(h/t: Alexandra Pfenninger, via email)

Cover story

“Fighting Back,” by Barry Blitt. From the New Yorker, 24 Oct 2011.

Or, to put it another way:

Surely there is a Conor Friedersdorf joke to be made here somewhere

But if Henke and Ruffini is all you can bring, bring it.

(h/t, not that they intended it: Atwood and Spolsky)

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Henke and Ruffini?       Friedersdorf?

Revenge Protest Sign of the Nerds

I adore this:

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Quite appropriately placed in Jon Chait's fine post, "Liberalism's Bumper Sticker Problem." Obtained from Owen Abroad.

[Update 2012-02-25 09:57] Changed image URL -- new hosting site for image.

You Can't Explain That!

From yesterday's massive protest in Madison, Wisconsin:

(From gallery here, via.)

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Portrait of the Day

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By Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press.

(h/t: FOK News Channel)

Remember that Charles and David's last name doesn't rhyme with "crotch"

Non-Wisconsin resident TBogg for the win:

Sordid details here and here.