Meet the ubmbROLLa:

As this blog notes: “It’s a draggable umbrella designed by Qian Jiang & Yiying Wu. Apparently, it’s for people who are so accustomed to traveling with a rolling suitcase, that they can’t make the switch to an umbrella.”

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From the Department of You Have To Be Kidding, this article reports:
The yellow traffic light is taking on a new meaning for motorists during these tough economic times: one expensive trap.
According to the National Motorists Association (NMA), some municipalities have been caught shortening the time in which yellow lights are on in order to generate [...]

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Excerpt from a longer video that is accessible here.
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Here!
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A booted traveler got revenge of a sort on Southwest Airlines:
On Feb. 13, a stout 39-year-old man was escorted off an Oakland-to-Burbank Southwest Air flight on the grounds that his size presented a “safety risk.” Unfortunately for Southwest, it messed with “the wrong sedentary processed-foods eater.”
The man was Kevin Smith, who, in addition to being [...]

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You can buy it here, but why would you want to?
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From here:
You couldn’t blame Lauren McClusky of Chicago if she were a bit squeamish about using her last name in this story without fear of reprisal from Ronald McDonald and his legal posse.
For McClusky, 19, finds herself at the center of a thorny dispute that involves a series of charity concerts she’s put on over [...]

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Seems shocking because generally librarians are a superior class of people!

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The Simpsons get Rick Rolled:

The Christians get Rick Rolled:

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I have to pay for every text, and Organizing for America won’t honor requests to knock it off. This is making Verizon rich but not very helpful to anybody else.
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Liz Losh explains that controversy here. I’m thinking of purchasing derivative works rights in one of his bushy eyebrows if the Catholic Church decides to license the rights to the Pope’s face, whatever those may be.

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From here:
Rush Limbaugh was hospitalized on Wednesday for “chest pains” in Hawaii, but the controversial radio host (who also had a syndicated TV show at one point) is not dead contrary to a post made by Wikipedia early Thursday morning. The commentator’s page was edited briefly to say that December 30, 2009 was the day [...]

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