Lawn Ornaments

There’s an article here about the “original” pink flamingo lawn ornament design being brought back from the dead afther the original company ended production a few years ago.

I’m confused, though, because they say the original design was of a plastic flamingo, and I distinctly remember my grandmother having cement pink flamingo lawn ornaments from the 50’s. Those suckers were heavy, and they needed to be repainted every few years, and we finally got rid of them when the cement started to disintegrate and one of the necks half broke off one of them.

So did my family create cement lawn ornaments? (I wouldn’t put it past them.) Or is this original not so original?

Shows how alert I am.

I only just now realized that a new comic went up today — Saturday’s comic to be precise. Good to see that my date entry skills were hitting a new low when I entered that one in the queue. No point in moving it now.

The Dead Link Conundrum

So I got it into my head the other day that I want a category specific for all these one-off look-it’s-a-link posts that I write, and I’m moving the links over, but I’m also finding a lot of dead links.

I hate hate hate dead links.

So until now I’ve been labeling them as dead and removing the HTML, because I hate dead links.

I’m seriously considering deleting them if they’re dead. But that’s treading a fine line in the blogosphere, because it could be considered revisionist history, and revisionist history is “bad”. I’m just not sure that revisionist history to remove garbage links that don’t do anyone any good because they’re vague references to a link that doesn’t work anyway is also bad.

So do I nuke dead-link one-link-ers or keep them?