New veggie books for all ages!: “For older kids, we’ve got two brand new Larryboy chapter books! In ‘The Attack of Outback Jack,’ Bumblyburg’s caped cucumber teams up with Pruneman to stop the Australian treasure hunter Outback Jack — and learns an important lesson about respecting our elders.”

Update: Cereal Adventure has permanently closed for business

General Mills Cereal Adventure is a family fun attraction that celebrates the cereal industry and the joy of eating cereal! Located in Mall of America, you can meet your favorite cereal characters and try delicious cereal treats at our cafe. Two neat features I’m intrigued by “Make Your Own Cereal $6.95″ and “Personalized Wheaties Box $14.95″

And in the cafe, they serve all 50 General Mills cereals, including hard-to-find favorites like BooBerry, Count Chocula and Kaboom. We also feature a variety of homemade cereal treats that you’ll find only at Cereal Adventure! Enjoy your food in an unforgettable atmosphere while you can sit on high bar stools at the counter and watch all your favorite old cereal TV commercials. Inside, you can play cereal games and sometimes catch a cooking demonstration or do cereal craft activities

Trix-on-a-Stick
The fruity-fun taste of Trix mixed with marshmallows and served on a stick!

Wheaties Breakfast of Champions Bars
Wheaties cereal mixed with peanut butter and butterscotch and topped with a layer of chocolate!

Golden Grahams Indoor Smores
Golden Grahams cereal drenched in with chocolate and marshmallows!

Chex Muddy Buddies
Chex cereal covered in peanut butter and chocolate and dusted with powdered sugar.

Check out this story for the scoop on how KFC is running ads about how healthy their fried chicken is. Now that’s chutzpah!

Update: the actual site does include a nice if unlikely mediating tool to go with their forcing function product.

Ahh, measures and countermeasures. The airlines are already banning the Knee Defender – a somewhat undesigned solution to keep the person in front of you from leaning their seat all the way back. Kind of a sledgehammer approach to managing conflicting needs in a multiplayer system. Perhaps a whole line of products could be created to go with this: Crying Baby Throttler; Drunken Groper Zapper; Bitchy Flight Attendant Juicer; Buh-bye Dispenser; Crappy Food Taste Improver and Excessive Gas Dissipater.

In Chicago earlier this week I noticed an ad for Marshall Field’s in the Chicago Tribune. It’s a black and white photo of a woman holding a purse sort of blocking her face. The text at the top reads “Field Days! Tuesday, October 21 only. EXTRA!” And in a banner than cuts across the ad, it says “FLASH MOB hits Field’s for amazing brands on sale!”

Flash Mob?

Jeez.

That didn’t take long, did it?

Well, it wasn’t too hard to find someone else who had blogged this. I mean, what are the chances of me being the first? Three days later? At any rate, now I can share the picture with you

Pretty awesome gallery of cute Japanese food.

Wooster Collective : A Celebration of Street Art is pretty damn neat.

What I’d like to see is a medication that reduces nausea, dizziness, insomnia, stomach pain, sore muscles and loss of libido, but may result in a slight loss of memory and increased reluctance to go outside.

TERMINAL BAR: the film is a fantastic documentary shown on Sundance Channel (as well as a million other places. It describes the seediest bar in NYC, right across from Port Authority. It closed in 1982, and the bartender for 10 years took amazing photographs which make up the bulk of the imagery of the film, made by that man’s son. Clear? I hope so.

The link above includes a brief trailer (including stuff not in the film itself) and a link to a slideshow where you can see some of these photos – almost all portraits of the denizens of the place.

Very nicely made, great use of still imagery to create a very compelling story. See it if you can.

I just thought everyone should see a picture of that FREE! moron, just for relief from whatever else is going on.

Ahh, that’s better, now, isn’t it?

California uber Arnold.

A trend for naming children after favourite possessions is accelerating in brand-driven America. The records show that in 2000, 49 children were named Canon, followed by 11 Bentleys, five Jaguars and a Xerox.

Story here

Complete illustrated Catalog of ACME products (from Warner Brothers cartoons).

Sinkems fun shapes are made from a patented, dissolving, non-toxic and biodegradable septic-tank safe material. Simply place one fun shape in the toilet or potty and encourage your toddler to sink’em! It’s a great way for both boys and girls to start TOILET TRAINING! When finished, just flush down the toilet