The new $20 bills are being released today, marking the much-needed injection of color in to US currency. You and I probably won't be able to get our hands on them until we drunkenly dip into the ATM this weekend at 2:30 in the morning outside some hipster-infested watering hole on the LES; when that does happen, focus through your alcoholic haze and try to remember that the bills coming out of the machine are, in fact, legal tender (despite their technicolor appearance) and not monopoly money. In unrelated news, CNN has an article on memorable US currency flops of the past. Not to mention that the nickel will be changing soon... This, of course, means nothing to my non-US readers.
- When I was a child, I thought that Pan Am was the only airline in the world.
- Gregg Easterbrook looks at the consequences of the Governator winning the election: "On winning, Arnold Schwarzenegger declared he would 'reach out to Californians.' Especially women!"
- The awful truth about squirrels. A must read. Via The Kicker.
- iTunes for Windows is coming (and with it, the iTunes Music Store). Prepare to be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
- Seven more to go.
- Two different automagic blog template generators: InkNoise Layoutomatic and Firdamatic, from Aaron Bailey and Jeff Jarvis respectively. They're both pretty cool, but it looks like the second one does more work for you...
- Incidentally, on of my pet peeves are companies that capitalize their name a certain way in their logo/pr materials but then capitalize it a different way elsewhere...
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In a quick blurb today about the new American twenty dollar bills (which Jon Stewart and Tim Robbins thoroughly mocked last night) Paul Frankenstein links to a CNNmoney article chronicling various currency flops in the US. And what are some Read More
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