most drivers could easily identify these duct-tape wrapped shapes as the universal sign for “caution: crazy person ahead,” but our submitter in boston actually pulled over and parked in order to get a better look. up close, “the signs were even crazier than we thought,” she reports. “seriously, what happened to this guy?”

related: movin’ out [...]

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just in case gas prices aren’t hurting you enough lately, tim from madison, wisconsin brings us this stomach-turning (yet impressively restrained) note from a petrol station somewhere en route to green bay.

meanwhile, tonya in oakland passes along a photo taken by a traveler brave/desperate enough to actual enter a gas station restroom somewhere in utah.

and [...]

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writes bibs in tacoma, washington: “my sophomore year in college, i was placed in a campus house with six other girls i didn’t know. to say the least, we did not really get along, but we made a chore chart so we would all at least have a semi-clean house to live in.” at [...]

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while paying his old office a weekend visit, jimsu from katy, texas didn’t catch the original note (or, perhaps, conversation) that precipitated this huffy screed from the mailman…

…but he did spot the follow-up from the office smartass.

related: this is why your postal worker is disgruntled

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originally unearthed from outside the hallowed conde nast cafeteria in july, 2001, this digital-age relic provides a quaint look back at those halcyon days among the new york media elite — back when gawker was still just a glint in nick denton’s eye, young anna wintour acolytes were still stuck in the induction phase of [...]

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omg, ramekin drama! (from san francisco, natch…)
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related: #54 kitchen gadgets [stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.org]

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To quote Chris Anderson responding to Milton Friedman: “A free lunch doesn’t necessarily mean the food is being given away or that you’ll pay for it later — it could just mean someone else is picking up the tab.”
Indeed, Craig in New York offers this example of the negative externalities that can come along with [...]

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