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The Death of Garfield This YTMND digs up a set of Garfield comic strips from October 23-28, 1989 that are positively bleak. The strips are, indeed, authentic, as you can read them (in color) on the official Garfield web site. As Wikipedia points out, the strips seem to imply that all of the cheery Garfield strips since October ‘89 have been fantasies Garfield is playing out in his head to delude himself from realizing the dark turn his life has taken, as he slowly starves to death in an abandoned house. (via Boing Boing)

SOAP your friends “Send a free personalized talking Snakes On a Plane message in the voice of Samuel L. Jackson to someone you know.” Weird, but fun. (via Waxy.org)

Possibly Drunk Pelican Hits Windshield “A California brown pelican probably was intoxicated by a naturally occurring toxin found in algae blooms when she hit the car on the Pacific Coast Highway in Orange County Thursday, wildlife officials said.” (Thanks, Tom!)

Kitten survives trip through wood chipper Yes, the trip was accidental. (via Netscape)

Sen. Ted Stevens on Net Neutrality The senator (R-Alaska) explains why he voted against net neutrality. So clueless it borders on incoherent: “I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially.” (via O’Reilly Radar)