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California artist Josh Agle signs his name Shag and makes way-out artwork that recalls the hipster graphic style of 50s and 60s commercial art. Dig this image of voodoo bad guy Baron Samedi.

This is what convergence is all about: what if Kozmo.com could deliver marijuana to your door? Kozmo can’t, but

iToke can. It’s real, it’s legal, but it’s based in Amsterdam. It seems like a fairly obvious step to deliver Ben and Jerry’s ice cream at the same time. Read about it at CNET

Some time ago I wrote a piece about mayonnaise scooping, which only today called forth an email from Brett, a real mayonnaise lover’s mayonnaise lover. Check out his mayo-centric site Oooh… What Sauce!

It reminded me of Paul Lukas’s Inconspicuous Consumption site and related Beer Frame zine, but of course its single-minded purpose distinguishes it. Remember mayonnaise = life.

Here’s a nice conversation between R.U. Sirius and Justin Hall (courtesy of the SF Bay Guardian) about the early days of the net-web-cyber-whatever revolution. That was back when Mondo 2000 was going to take over the world, before Wired was a twinkle in Louis Rossetto’s eye. I still have a bunch of Mondo 2000 back issues.

“Please enjoy graceful time of the afternoon with the pie of YAMAZAKI in the cafe terrace of a chic town.” This and other excellent Japanese “Engrish” samples appear

here. My all-time favorite is from my friend Bonnie who lived in Japan for several years. She finally figured out the sign OBUN FLESH BECALE that hung outside a bakery she passed every day was supposed to read OVEN FRESH BAKERY.

Er… not that I’ve seen the porn sites that these guys are satiring, but Furniture Porn is a truly amusing spoof.

Rob and Lisa are faithfully keeping us updated about their EuroTrip 2000, most recently from Amsterdam. Coincidentally, the Coffee Czar wrote just this week about bicycles and Amsterdam. Say… how come I’ve never seen Rob and the Coffee Czar in the same room at the same time? Hmmm…

McSweeney’s web site, edited by Dave Eggers, author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. I recommend the book and the site. Currently at McSweeney’s: New Riddles for Five-Ounce Dixie Cups.

Check out the new Atomz.com powered search engine on the left side of this screen. I’m happy to give them a plug, because their service is good, fast, and free. I’m extremely impressed with what the Blogger revolution has wrought. You don’t need heavy server-side action on your site if you can make clever use of all the free services out there. These are developments I never would have anticipated…

Snakes and Ladders is a collection of intriguing essays by Erik Davis. He wrote an entertaining book called Techgnosis about the parallels between ancient traditions of magic and our current information-centric culture.