Sadly though, it seems you just can’t kill ugly:

But you may have noticed that today is October 1, and Earth has yet to receive word of the company’s demise. That’s because the shoe brand has just secured up to $30 million in revolving loans. Who would facilitate such a fashion crime? PNC Financial Services Group Inc., that’s who.

Who’s behind this PNC Financial Services Group? A bunch of sick fucks, that’s who.

Aside from the usual awkwardness you feel while watching Microsoft PR material, you can’t help but pick up on how ambiguous the script sounds. Cabel Sasser picked up on that and took the video in a whole new direction.

Australia is heralding in the global warming apocalypse: extreme heat and drought, massive wildfires and this recent dust storm over Sydney which turned the entire cityscape into an environment akin to Mars.

On this day in 1954, The Lord of the Flies was published after being rejected by twenty one previous publishers.

Just imagining doing this makes me want to curl into the fetal position.

Or Very Important Pixels.

And 4chan says goodbye.

And my karma drops 5 points.

It may not change your life, but the daily factoids and illustrations are a lot of fun.

A sample entry:

Drumming my fingers on the arm of the chair

I was sitting down on one of the chairs in my house. My hand was resting on the arm of the chair. I started to drum my fingers on the arm, thereby making a barely audible sound.

Scratch off the appetizers and entrees that are most like dishes you’ve seen in many other restaurants, because they represent this one at its most dutiful, conservative and profit-minded. The chef’s heart isn’t in them.

Scratch off the dishes that look the most aggressively fanciful. The chef’s vanity — possibly too much of it — spawned these.

Then scratch off anything that mentions truffle oil.

Choose among the remaining dishes.

His other answers are interesting but once you’ve reached the end you’re going to be hungry.

Here’s the hands-on review from David Pogue of the NYT.

In any case, Snow Leopard truly is an optimized version of Leopard. It starts up faster (72 seconds on a MacBook Air, versus 100 seconds in Leopard). It opens programs faster (Web browser, 3 seconds; calendar, 5 seconds; iTunes, 7 seconds), and the second time you open the same program, the time is halved.

“Optimized” doesn’t just mean faster; it also means smaller. Incredibly, Snow Leopard is only half the size of its predecessor; following the speedy installation (15 minutes), you wind up with 7 gigabytes more free space on your hard drive. That, ladies and gents, is a first.

And MacWorld’s roundup of coverage, from the lesser known features to comparisons to Windows 7, Microsoft’s similar “maintenance” release due in October.