Lion Nathan's Rob Murray has a taste for the potent ready-to-drink stuff called Purple Goanna that Independent bottles and is popular with the young (adult) crowd in New Zealand.
The Independent Liquor website has a Purple Goanna page that says nothing of it being unavailable but we've been tricked by that same page before.
Note that my friends and I love this drink so much that we were well prepared to drink bottles of it that were years out of date.
What a glorious day.
What got me thinking of this was lost food products that I liked but not enough others did to keep it on the market.
Purple Goanna to White Kit Kat Chunky to Platinum 7.
The Wikipedia page for Kit Kat indicates Kit Kat While Chunky was "hugely popular" so perhaps it was taken off the market because it had enough sugar in it to kill a hippo but given all the other snacks on the market I think that's clutching at straws.
Wikipedia entries [...] are typically in stable locations, have a decent track record for outliving transient events, are pretty good at presenting the essential facts in a clear, no-nonsense way, and tend to be richly linked to relevant information, including whatever the “official” Web site might currently happen to be.
The large appeal to me of Wikipedia is as a starting point, particularly for the peer reviewed list of link pages it is likely to have as references.
Tim suggests what the web needs is a way to link to multiple references (webpages) in one link. So the link Pre_Shrunk could link to their official homepage, their CDs on chaos.com, relevant posts within this blog and fan sites instead of just their official homepage.
I and most blog writers could implement such a thing on their own blog. Instead of linking to an external page, they could link to a page within their own blog that contained a list of relevant links on the item linked (eg. Pre_Shrunk). That page is under their control and can be updated if any links break.
Tim's main fear in linking is the fragility of what is being linked to. That is, will that link still work in a years time? Five? Ten? Or more simply, with the page being linked to outlast the page linked from.
If the page linked to is on the same site as the article linked from, that problem is no longer an issue.
Can any blogger be bothered creating their own self maintained page on any topic/noun they wish to link to during their posts?
Of course not.
The appearance in name and approximate drawn likeness, either as a 'supporting character' or more forthright personna, of the auction's 'winner' in an upcoming comic strip by the author/cartoonist, to appear sometime before the end of 2008 in serial (probably newspaper) form, and later to be reprinted in collected form at an unspecified, and probably quite alarmingly later, date.
One could be warned that "approximate likeness" probably won't be flattering.
Last year the final bid for Chris Ware was US$4049.99 which is a little beyond my budget for ego boosting.
Another author pimping themselves this year includes Kevin J. Anderson who must be running out of names by now and would probably be grateful for the inspiration.
Last year Stephen King sold off a name in his book zombie carnage romp, Cell.
They're hideous.
They taste exactly like the lemon Strepsils.
I believe Tic Tacs' biggest problem (for me) is their marketing as a breath mint. It limits their flavour choices and forces them into seriously bizarre configurations in order to keep up the breath mint impression.
It seems they've learnt nothing from the fact Orange is the favourite flavour on average.