If you buy a 3 oz. Endangered Species candy bar at Walgreens before July 31st, you get a coupon code for a free rental from Redbox(a $1 value!). I just bought one, and judging from the coupon, the code likely expires after 2 weeks. It can be used for one night’s rental. The coupon comes with your receipt.

Endangered Species candy bars donate 10% of the net profits to help support species, habitat and humanity. The chocolate itself is 100% ethically traded, bought from small family-owned properties. The milk chocolate bar was pretty rich, and actually tasted almost like dark chocolate. This is the kind of chocolate you savor. Mine has a photo of a sea otter on it!

Redbox is a DVD rental company that uses vending machines at places like Wal-Mart, McDonald’s and Walgreens. Each night’s rental is $1, no matter how long you keep it(unless you keep it 25 days, in which case, you’ve just bought it). It’s a very simple, straight-forward plan. Credit card is required.

Walgreens is like Wal-Mart, except smaller and more convenient. They have Deerfield Trading Company Premium Soda, which tastes awesome. They use real sugar, not corn syrup.

Kenny Chronicles is once again up-to-date with all the latest technology in webcomics. Some new things to notice:

• You can embed a specific comic on your website/blog by copying the Embed code located to the right of a comic’s blog entry.
• The ability to reply to a specific comment. Threaded comments are finally here.
• New buttons above the comment box allow for some formatting of your comments without knowing html. Just highlight what you want bolded, and click the “B”.
• I might start using the transcription feature to help out the search engine.
• I might start using the storyline-grouping feature, too.
• (added later) The archive pages are more useful. That extends to the tag/keyword pages.
• (added later) The 404 Not Found page has a cool animation for no particular reason.
• (added much later, June 14th) Sidebar now hides on lower resolutions to save on side-scrolling.
• The Contact Me link works again!
• Better organization.

I’m still tweaking some things, like support for smaller monitors(finished!). Eventually the redesign will make its way to the Spanish version of the site. I have other features planned, so stay tuned.

Found out about this from Tom Richmond’s blog. He’s the one that illustrated it. The blog entry has some sample pages and Barney Frank eating one of Bo’s dog biscuits.
Available for preorder, and will be available August 10th.
EDIT(7-28-09): It’s been pushed to August 3rd and is currently listed as “in stock” on Amazon.

A hand-made card for my dad.