Slow news week

The top story in the Topeka Capital-Journal today: hissies over "CSI: Topeka" card (registration-free story here er, here?). Topeka's mayor says he's "offended." One, grow some skin, Bill. Two, you should be flattered that a city with typically one of the largest crime rates per capita is portrayed as "boring." Three, shut up.

Also in the paper: mindless tittering over Gilmore Girls using "BTK" as a verb (identical reg-free story here er, here?). Fft. Edit: dammit, Knight-Ridder, stop with the freakin' registration cookie-cutter websites, okay? Nobody's interested.

In more practical news, the Collegian might get a frat shut down. Nelson: "Ha-ha!"

Dadameme

Snicker, snort, guffaw

The new logo unveiled by the University of Kansas earlier this year bears a marked similarity to one used by a smaller Pennsylvania university that also calls itself KU.

Kutztown University, located in Kutztown, an eastern Pennsylvania community northwest of Philadelphia, has been using its current logo for about two years - and it cost a lot less than Kansas paid for the one it unveiled earlier this year....

Kansas chose from four finalist designs that were picked with the help of a firm from Portland, Ore., LandreyMorrow. The school paid LandreyMorrow $88,900 for its work on the logo project, which included gathering feedback on the options and preparing a 53-page set of guidelines on how to use the logo....

Adrian Gonzales, a Kansas freshman from Shawnee, said he didn't think the similarity between the logos was a big deal. Keith Erney, a senior at Kutzdown, also professed unconcern.

"What do I care?" he said. "It's so far away."

He allowed that he had heard of the University of Kansas, although it was clear he wasn't that familiar with it when he added, "Your colors are, I guess, purple and white?"

Those would be the colors of the university's in-state rival, Kansas State - the Kansas school colors are red and blue.

Greatest photo ever

It's a giraffe licking a squirrel. Carry on. (Edit: icon'ed.)