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Chelsea, Manhattan, Wednesday.
Today's theme: Unlikely URLs in the Urban Environment. Mmmm, operative cake. (Distributors of fine Bon Ton products.)
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West Village, Manhattan, last week.
The owners of this grocery decided that a catchy URL was more important than the store's actual name ("Banana Express," which is itself quite catchy). Apparently it was also more important than actually building a Web site.
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Ditto for the flower shop next door, which is under the same management.
. . .
Some depressing reading: Get off the Internet.