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It is not clear to me why the Public Interest Section is known as the PIN ...

Oh! Of course!

"If you don't want it printed, don't let it happen."

I'm not kidding. Here's the link: Aspen Daily News.

Mullfoto of the Day

This is the kind of year 2006 is going to be: The staff of the Starbucks in the People's Republic of Old Town Alexandria, Virginia was temporarily forced out onto Union Street on January 2 because the fire alarm went off.

I didn't think it was too much to ask one of these folks to run in and get me a Grande Mocha but they quoted some rules and regulations about not being in the store while the fire department was actually investigating. . . Blah. Blah. Blah.

Catchy Caption of the Day

Actual Caption:

The School of Textiles and Design at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh have begun what is believed to be the world's first-ever study on how women's clothing affects the bottom

Memo to the geniuses at Edinburgh: I guarantee you, this is NOT the first-ever study of clothing and women's bottoms.

(AFP/Illustration)