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Let Jim Davis earn his own keep. Fuck the papers, let them all go out of print. Papers are just content aggregators and distributors just like the internet is now. The internet has replaced the newspaper.

The new model is that the journalist creates the stories they want to make and they think they can sell. They then market themselves to news sources and other aggregators on the internet and then they can link back to their own site. The content creator can then sell ads through Google ad sense or whatever means they want. They could even sell directly to the aggregator. The newspapers don't need to pay for staffs anymore they just need to say "hey, we need someone to cover the local town meeting for ATL city hall, we'll pay $0.02 a page view for it." or something like that. You the content provider go to the town hall meeting and maybe someone else does as well. Both of you publish you're article on the meeting the content aggregator chooses which story it likes better or thinks is the better deal and the problem is solved. The person who didn't sell theirs to CNN or the AJC can put it up on their own website and earn some income based on the ads from their own sites. Who knows maybe they could sell their story to some other outlet. Then these competing content creators can earn a name for themselves and possibly have their ads worth more money.

The same could be for someone covering a war story, if the content is good someone will pay for it.

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On the garfield.com site there's a minigame that has garfield looking for clues and stuff, and he goes insane as various random things pop-up. If he goes completely insane, game over. Anyways, here's the link: http://www.garfield.com/fungames/scavengerhunt/sca vengerhunt.html Its a pretty good timewaster for the office.

You mean they're going to rename it Mac OS X Garfield? That ought to make Paws, Inc. happy.

Oh, quite the opposite. Some comic strips are designed from the ground up as advertising platforms. They don't have any humor value for anyone over 6, and yet still manage to at least make some money with the whorish accessorizing.

Maybe some people like it because it's cute (little old women with 12 cats?), but I can't see how anyone with a wit of humor would find it humorous.

GMail used to be the free email service offered for fans of Garfield (the overweight lasanga-loving orange cat on the comics page). I notice that they now offer e-garfield.com emails instead.

PAWS, Inc. (the office of Jim Davis, the Garfield guy) has a 'solar aquatic system' in Indiana that processes all the waste water from their complex in a greenhouse, using plants and small critters in series of tanks and pools. Without using any chemicals or electricity (beyond pumping and some supplementary heat for the greenhouse in extreme cold), the system outputs water cleaner than what you used to make your morning coffee.