Dec 21 2008
Doing it to Myself Before Others Can Do it to Me
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Socially Speaking
That is one delicious-looking strip of hog. Now I need to go and eat breakfast.
Huh, I was wondering what to have for breakfast and I believe I’ll be having BACON and eggs!!
…because that’s not irritating at all. Wow.
Why not vertical sidebars instead?
If that’s the model you’re planning to follow when you add ads, you’ll be doing it rwong!
On a related subject: if anyone knows why Safari steadfastly refuses to let go of the autumn leaf background here, despite multiple cache purges and application relaunches and system restarts, I’d be interested in knowing. (It’s never balked before, btw. And Firefox on the same machine gladly welcomed the new theme.)
OK, so how do I get rid of it now?
Wow, that’s just disturbing.
Apparently flash trumps bacon.
http://bacolicio.us/http://photo.fx4.net
This is like that charity fund-raiser protocol where people pay a church youth group to make their friends wake up with plastic pink flamingos all over their lawn. And then you can buy ‘insurance’ from the youth group to make sure you’re NOT ‘pink flamigoed’.
Gee, I wonder if there’s bacon insurance?
Lauretta, who’s had her bacon for b-fast already.
I have renewed luv 4 dee internets.
mmm… nom nom nom …
I want it crispier, can I send it back?
Bloody brilliant.
I’ll never be able to view the web un-baconized again.