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Free ice cream day at Ben & Jerry's: Today from noon to 8 p.m., participating Ben & Jerry's stores offer free ice cream cones.

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USA The Gas Buddy Price Map is zoomable, and a right click will give you prices by zip code at the highest magnification..

If you have enough money to get there, Converse, Wy. has the lowest gas prices: $2.45 a gallon. It might be worth it if you're in El Dorado, Calif., where it's $3.29.

Most of Rhode Island is in the $2.90s.

Let us spray is an interesting story at the Guardian (U.K.) about PT-141, the nasal spray that tricks the brain into desire.

Sesame Street video clips: J.D. Roth of Folded Space writes,

I state quite confidently that this is the best entry I've made in five years of weblogging. Go away if you have work things to get done. This is an enormous time-waster.

Spurred on by a post on MetaFilter that begins, "Johnny Cash implores Big Bird, "Don't Take Your Ones To Town," Roth hunted up, sorted and linked YouTube's scattered collection.

Readers make more requests in comments there.

From beautiful Eagle Lake, Ontario: Eric Lilius, my Canadian correspondent, sends along a link to Dead Dog in the City, an apparently off the wall radio show on CBC:

...there’s certainly a great deal to do in the city. There’s the pirate radio news show (New World News: Yesterday’s News Tomorrow) that Jasper runs for three minutes each week on random days so the CRTC can’t triangulate the location. There’s Rosedale Garbage Day where you never know what the filthy rich will throw out next. There’s the periodic trips to the Toronto Zoo to see how the animals are doing (are the polar bears really on prozac?).

And then there are the urban denizens who come by the café for coffee and conversation. For instance, there’s Leon Purchase, the CEO of the Utilitarian Church which ministers to multi-national corporations and who is intent on “raising profits among you” (can you say 22%?).

The Dead Dog Café. Out of the sticks and into the big city....Where the satire is hard. Where no one is safe. Where anything can happen. Where anyone can show up. And where we still don’t know exactly what “Stay Calm, Be Brave, Wait for the Signs” really means.

You can listen to the 15-minute weekly show live online in Ottawa
Wednesdays, 8:28 p.m. - 8:43 p.m. and Thursdays, 10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.