Jonny Crossbones is an adventure in the style of Tintin.

Strange Maps is a new blog of obscure and hypothetical geography. Linked from a comment there is a Regional Map of North America’s Place-Based Food Traditions, showing Maple Syrup Nation, Pinyon Nut Nation, Salmon Nation and so on.

Kaiser Permanente has a radio spot with this bit of dialogue:

So what did your doctor say?

Oh, she prescribed the same medication she always does.

And it worked?

M-hm! My doctor is awesome.

What’s wrong with this picture?

Perhaps I ought to have a department of “What, if anything, are we to make of this?”

The Economist‘s pitch for gift subscriptions has the headline “Now they’ll know who’s been naughty and who’s been nice,” over a row of five headshots. Before the election the five faces were Tony Blair, the Dalai Lama, George “W” Bush, Sir Richard Branson and Kim Jong-il. Now they are Prince William of Wales, Osama bin Laden, [someone I can’t place: possibly an Israeli politician], Mel Gibson and Hillary Rodham Clinton.