I was late to about a hundred meetings when Daylight Savings moved up and apparently it was all for naught. Moving an hour of daylight from the morning to the night did nothing to save energy. Nothing at all. Sigh.

Via Kottke

I’d like to think this is an April Fool’s joke, but it’s not. PalmTreeDirect.com will deliver any of seven different varieties of palm tree direct to your Minnesota home for as little as $399 (and as high as $2,000). From their FAQ:

The majority of our clients treat their northern palm as an annual.  They have fully recouped their investment with the hours of enjoyment they spent sitting in its shade, staring in amazement, and telling friends about the neat benefits of having their own personal paradise.

“Staring in amazement.” As in, amazement that you’ve been talked into planting a tree that will die sometime around Halloween. Of course, there’s nothing more festive than snow softly falling on the boughs of your dead, dead palm tree at Christmas…