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Here are some truly tasteless items I came across at the Dollar Tree this weekend.

I think the packaging says it all:

emmm, chocolate faith

And, of course you need edible praying hands to go with your chocolate cross:

I Pray for More Chocolate

I looked all all over for a chocolate Jesus but apparently eating your actual savior would be too tacky.

A few weekends ago I came across this disturbing stock photo in a picture frame at Kirklands:

The resemblance to the real McVeigh is frightening. Hard to believe that this would be the photo that was chosen to be displayed in who knows how many picture frames across the country. Although I have to admit they make a cute couple.

Here is the real deal for comparison:

You should get a free pass if you ass end this guy:

Worst addon ever

Just when I thought that I had seen all of the cool Easter Eggs from Google Street View, those crazy Googlers give us some more blog bait. Artists Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley teamed up with the Google Street View team and residents of Pittsburgh’s North Side to put on an avant-garde performance for the street view cameras. If you have ever wondered what it would be like to drive through a marching band or a marathon, here you go:
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You can check out some behind the scenes video and pics from the full cast at http://www.streetwithaview.com.

If you are in search marketing or search engine optimization then you know what a wealth of data that Googles Insights for Search can provide. I probably use Insights at least a dozen times a day and this morning I came across the Google Insights Bookmarklet. This is a clever little bit of javascript that works like this; simply copy the bookmark onto your Firefox toolbar and after you have entered a search on Google or Yahoo you simply click the bookmark and it opens up the Insights page with your query already populated.

This keeps me from having to open a new tab and then go to the insights page and copy and paste my query, all of which takes about 4 seconds to complete. Mutliply that by, say, 10 x a day x 5 days a week x 50 weeks a year and I have effectively saved myself 167 minutes a year that I can use to find other ways to save time.

Well it was bound to happen eventually. My coworker across the pond, Erik Rasmussen, has an awesome blog that people actually read and comment on and stuff. He had a post today that was especially interesting and though provoking, Agnosticism vs. Atheism. Well, apparently Mr. Rasmussen really pissed off god because later in the day he shut down that sacrilegious abomination.

No, not really. It actually was so engaging that the Digg community voted it up in a matter of hours and basically brought down the server on which his blog resides. Unfortunately that server has a lesser function that involves hosting ecommerce sites or some silly nonsense.

Luckily, we all gathered in a prayer circle and laid hands on the ailing server and revived it through sheer power of faith.

No, not really. Alan saved the day by redirecting the digg traffic to Google’s cache of the page. Thanks Alan!

I have to say, it is a great post demonstrating how agnostics are bunch of pussies that just need to step up and admit that there is no fucking god.

No, not really. He is just trying to explain the difference between believing that god does not exist and not believing that god exists. Yeah, I know it makes my head hurt too.

I think that I am going to start calling myself a pragmatic agnostic or pragnostic. Think on that one and get back to me.