Monday, July 27, 2009 | by nathan

Weekly Reader – 27 July 2009

Match the NPR Face
If you’re as much of a public broadcasting geek as I am, you will know all of these names from NPR; if you’re a HUUUUGE public broadcasting geek, you’ll love this quiz.

W. Frequent Presence at Dallas Mall
"Every weekday at noon inside a North Dallas shopping mall, the 43rd president of the United States of America sits down at his usual table in the food court and settles in for lunch with a jumbo Mello Yello, two plates of magic fries and a grande chimichanga. “When he first starting showin’ up at the mall, people would always come over and ask for his autograph or whatever,” said Daryl Vanderveen, a 19-year-old cashier at Sbarro Pizza. “But now he’s here so much that nobody even looks up from their lunch."

The Brand Graveyard: Crocs
One of my favorite recession-era blogs, Salon’s The Brand Graveyard, rings the death knell for the ugliest shoes ever mass-produced, Crocs.

Good Night, Kitty
Sanrio has now officially branded itself on EVERYTHING.