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I’ve received no less than two dozen messages from readers eager to hear my thoughts about Nabisco’s new Watermelon Oreos. And if we remove the word “dozen” from the preceding statement, it’d actually be true.

Let that sink in, friends. Watermelon Oreos.

I think I threw up a little just thinking about that.

It’s amazing what people can get get away with sometimes. WIN.

From June 11:

50 years ago today, a Buddhist monk named Thich Quang Duc calmly sat down in the middle of a street in South Vietnam in front of the Cambodian Embassy, while a fellow monk poured gasoline over his head. A moment later, he set himself on fire.

He was protesting the systemic religious discrimination against Buddhists by the Roman Catholic regime of dictator Ngo Dinh Diem. Although Catholics were very much a minority in the country, they enjoyed majority status and privileges. Buddhists were not allowed to practice their religion in public, serve in the army, and were routinely discriminated against.

This is the image I see every time some overly white bred holy roller starts screaming about Christians being persecuted on TV.

I live in a world that an album that came out just before I got married in 1994 is now considered a classic.

Never mind that it is one of the best albums of that decade, I just have to go sit in a corner and listen to my arteries harden just a little bit more…

Always a sucker for a good surf guitar. These guys are good.

If I read Marco right, apps that embrace the new and simple design of iOS 7, and target specific, simple, seamless uses are going to do well.

Candy Apps (for the lack of a better term) won’t.

This is more than ‘flat is the new black’. This is flat as the new app economy. Adapt or wither.

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How about a little less trying to read public opinion, and a little more reading of the Bill of Rights?

Think that could be a thing?

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The nefarious plot now reveals itself: Since I believe Starbaucks are planted as seeds and magically grow like a fungus in the overnight hours, eventually there will not be a Starbucks that is not within 25 feet of another Starbucks.

Problem solved.

I’d almost take this as a confirmation that there will eventually be some kind of ‘home grown’ competition, no?

I’ve always been fascinated with stories about Amelia Earheart. We share the same birthday, and I always liked that she was a taker of null excrement.

I hope this is it, finally.