Rare Photo of Unbranded Merchandise from Walmart

I bought a tube of glue to fix a model airplane I built with my daughter earlier this month.  I was astonished to see no branding on the tube or the packaging.  After all, even bananas have little brand stickers.

Tiny letters on the lower left corner of the reverse side of the package identify the manufacturer as Henkel Co. of Avon, Ohio.  Equally small lettering says Made in Canada.  

Henkel is an enormous German company.  The website of Henkel North America shows the business has thousands of U.S. employees and manufactures some leading brands.  Why this company didn't brand the hobby glue I bought is a mystery.

My article Expertscolumn and Squidoo Grow While Other Writing Sites Shrink appears on Triond's Webupon site today.  I'm disappointed with the layout, but I'm proud of myself for figuring out how to put a table on a Triond website.  The article has much more information than my usual articles.  I hope some folks will comment on the methodology and my recommendations so that I can improve the article.

ExpertsColumn.com

In addition to the writing I publish on Triond,  I'm writing a few articles for ExpertsColumn now.  Want to do it too?  Here's my referral link:  http://expertscolumn.com/referral/657890e1.

Word Cloud Quiz

I love the website www.wordle.net.  This website allows your to generate a word cloud, a kind of graphical summary of text, by simply pasting text into a box and clicking a button.  I put the text from five prominent English-language news sites into the box and generated the following word clouds, which I've marked A through E.  Can you guess the websites?

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Answers

I hope you didn't have to turn your computer upside down.  

Isn't amazing how often the very name of some newspapers is the most frequent item on the page?  Bloggers should take a lesson from this.  Marqjonz's Picatopica ... Marqjonz's Picatopica ... Marqjonz's Picatopica ... Marqjonz's Picatopica ... Marqjonz's Picatopica ... Marqjonz's Picatopica.

How do you know if you're a news junkie?

My badges:

Pope Benedict XVI to Visit Fidel Castro in Cuba

Jan. 17, 2012.  I keep up with Fidel Castro on Twitter.  He recently tweeted a link to an article about how he was going to meet the Pope on March 27.  I quickly traced it down, checked a few sources posted an article to ExpertsColumn.com.  It's my first article on that site: Pope Benedict, Fidel Castro to Meet March 27.

I'd just sworn off writing about Castro because he communicates with the world by tweeting links to other people's writing.  Good heavens, he has almost 10,000 career tweets.  In this case the link was newsworthy.

Searching for a public domain or Creative Commons photo to use in a spoof article, I stumbled upon the collection of zombie art and photographs in Wikimedia.  I present my five favorites below.  The name of the photographer and the location of the shot is below each picture.  All are Creative Commons license photos. Infrogmation's photo links back to his Flickr page.

Alofok--Kempten, Germany

Heather Buckley--Brighton, UK

Infrogmation--New Orleans, U.S.A.

Josh Jensen--Toronto, Ontario

Yves Tennevin--Toulouse, France