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Since Easter's coming, don't forget to check out Peeps Research.

Update: But wait! There's more — "Ultimate Peep Show":

Everyone has their favorite spam subject lines. I just got a new favorite this morning:

From: Laurence Huggins
Subject: edible cuddly people

Now if that doesn't make you want LOW-PRICING M*(EDS ONLINE, I don't know what will. It made me think of Chip & Bean.

A discussion on the WIPT (Women in Progressive Technology) list earlier prompted me to start a little informal survey of two categories of nonprofit workers: tech folk, and communications people. It's so hard to figure out what reasonable salaries or rates are to ask for these days, especially when many of our for-profit counterparts are jumping onboard to ride the next wave of tech speculation and investment, haha. So, in the comments, please let us know anonymously:

1. if you're a techie or a communicator
2. your job title
3. your city/locale
4. your responsibilities
5. your compensation. include if you get killer benefits and stuff like that, too.

The comments ask you to leave a name and email address. It's just for moderation purposes; if you put a name in, that'll show up, but your email address won't. The URL will hyperlink the name you enter. None of the info you give will be shared with anyone for anything. A bunch of us are just dead-curious as to what's happening out there.

Check out the whole Jason Alexander story on SMITH:

Jason Alexander was emceeing a gala at a conference I was attending. After a friend snuck me into the VIP reception room right before the show started, I turned around to find myself standing next to him. He was nothing at all like any of the personalities I’d seen him play. (Remember the smarmy best friend in Pretty Woman? I sure do.) No, instead, he radiated this unexpected aura of hip, friendly, and-yet-you-see-me-ten-times-a-day-now-on-TV celebrity.

read on…

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Next time I try to explain to someone that I have a complicated, yet randomly silly sense of humor, I will show them this. And tell them I think it's hilarious.

I swear, it really is 1999 again. I just found out about MaxDelivery, and though they venture out to my neighborhood yet, I still had flashbacks to Urbanfetch and Kozmo.com. I remember demonstrating to my co-workers at an ad agency the absolute absurdity that we'd reached with online services by ordering a single candy bar and having it delivered to our office.

MaxDelivery has booze and wine, which is at once absurd and enticing. Yes, my friends, a bubble we are entering indeed…

PS– I feel I need to mention that I'm waiting for my first-ever FreshDirect order while writing this. I found MaxDelivery because I was googling how much to tip the delivery guys when they get here…

I'm in the middle of preparing a 15-minute presentation that I'm giving at the end of the month on the evolution of the Interweb, and I've just learned some startling news. Web 2.0 sites are the leading cause of clogged pores and pimples on over 75% of the Internet's skin: