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• Fry It Up and Put a Stick in It  The first year Jen and I were back in Minnesota, we hit the State Fair twice. This was the year they debuted deep-fried Snickers bars on a stick and deep-fried Oreos (BTW, Yea on the Snickers, Nay on the Oreos). If you attempt the Snickers bar, eat it as you leave the fairgrounds, wash it down
• Corn Soda Good conversation over at Marginal Revolution on how corn subsidies and sugar quotas have contributed to the fattening of America with a secondary debate on the superior soda sweetener.
• Notes from Bob Garfield’s Chaos Scenario 2.0 Talk at Macalester Bob Garfield’s Chaos Scenario 2.0 presentation on Monday night felt like the opposite of the Blind Men and the Elephant. He’s just one of the many people from different angles, proclaiming that Advertising is dying and it’ll kill media as we know it. “That horrible crashing sound you hear is a gravy train derailing.” - Jeff
• This Song is a Commerical “This Song is a Commercial” by Wonderlick “The future is ad-supported music. Not that the idea is new idea but it is reality.” - NVTS, Evolving Trends The future is music as ad and the future is already here. Recorded music is an ad for the live performance (always has been). Recorded music is an ad for
• Ad Standards for Newspapers? “Several wondered if the ad met the Star Tribune’s standards for acceptable advertising or if it was a mistake.” - Kate Parry, Star Tribune’s ombudsman Here’s our panel’s reaction to the issue: Snarky Garrick: “Until readers directly provide the Strib with enough revenue that advertising isn’t needed, their complaints should go in the recycling bin with the