Dan’s Blog

I love Zappos.com. They offer good prices on a wide variety of shoes. They’ve always been very helpful either over the Internet or on the phone. A CS rep once helped me find the best price on the Internet for a pair of shoes that they didn’t carry. This story makes me love them all the more. So, if you have to buy a pair of shoes, may I suggest that you do so via Zappos?

(Via Consumerist)

Well, actually, Corn Palace Cam. For the uninitiated, the Mitchell Corn Palace, which bills itself as “The World’s Only Corn Palace,” is a building made out of… you guessed it: corn. It is torn down each year (due to rotting and birds, I presume) and rebuilt with a different theme. This year’s seems to be Rodeo 2007. When my friend Jon and I drove across the country, we stopped at the Corn Palace. We had to drive around Mitchell, SD for a bit to find parking, then had to walk to the palace. Never before in my life had I actually felt uncomfortable in my own skin. I felt the people watching us. I felt like they KNEW I was a Jew. I fully expected them to come over and start looking for my horns. But, the Corn Palace is a free roadside attraction. If you are driving through South Dakota, you may as well stop there (Wall Drug too). Why? Well, because it’s THERE and made out of corn.