Flickr photoset - St. Cloud Bakery signs

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, December 5, 2007 2:18 PM | permalink

TedSher's Flickr photo set of the sign next to the St. Cloud Bakery in Stearns County, Minnesota is like a book of tasty poetry. Link (Thanks, Coop!)

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#1 posted by jdixon , December 5, 2007 2:38 PM

Note the deep ruts on both sides of sign! This has been there awhile.

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#2 posted by pterandon , December 5, 2007 2:38 PM

I would surely like boingboing to investigate the controversy that has erupted at flickr at how the presumed meaning of the "Blog This" button has changed over the years. It used to be viewed as a presumed license. Now the employees of flickr (a Yahoo! subsidiary) are saying that the button is only there for folks who have previously made arrangements for permission.

Crowdsourcing is over, as is much of the fun that was at flickr. Could you boing-boingers please investigate and comment on this, which involves corporate-types ruining the fun of sharing media and copyright law, your favorite topics?

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#3 posted by Mark Frauenfelder

, December 5, 2007 2:55 PM

Here's our policy on copyrights and copyright holders: http://www.boingboing.net/policies.html

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#4 posted by semiotix , December 5, 2007 3:20 PM

Futzing around with kerning and justification is the hallmark of the worst kind of preening amateur poet. This so-called artist brings nothing to his or her art, visually or rhetorically. (The writer, I mean, not the photographer.) Even the carefully posed line of esses, which I assume was the point of the right-justifying, leaves me as cold as the winter snow on which it sits.

Now, Edna St. Vincent Millay could write a sign-poem:

Deep in the earth I rested now;
Cool is its hand upon the brow
And soft its breast beneath the head
59 cents for Wonder™ Bread.

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#5 posted by alex nydahl

, December 5, 2007 4:16 PM

ah, home.
this makes me almost miss central minnesota.

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#6 posted by Dillenger69

, December 5, 2007 4:16 PM

Why do I hear the computer from Portal in my head when I read these signs?

Do they have cake?

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#7 posted by pterandon , December 5, 2007 4:52 PM

Mark, I'm sorry, I guess I misspoke. The controversy is not so much about LINKING but about PHOTOBLOGGING. You are putting copies of other's All Rights Reserved images on your explicitly commercial site.

What was at one time stated as the cool, web-2.0 thing to do, is now thought of along the lines as a DMCA violation. Read the forums at flickr. There are frequently complaints along the lines of, "Hey, someone photoblogged my ARR (or CC-nc) images on a web site with ads. They didn't even ask!" The policy at flickr has changed.

I used to Blog This! whenever I found interesting images at flickr, but not anymore. I think this fear-of-lawsuit can derail all of the fun of Web 2.0. You all are just the ones to take on this issue!

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#8 posted by Mitch , December 5, 2007 4:54 PM

My guess the Carmel Roll is in honor of
Clint Eastwood.

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#9 posted by Shrdlu , December 5, 2007 9:01 PM

I do miss St. Cloud. I can't imagine why anyone would find themselves there, but if you do you must go to Bravo Burritos. It's the La Super Rica Taqueria of Central Minnesota. I wonder if D.B. Searles still has Long Island iced tea night. I owe most of my young sexual misadventures to those drinks. Great place to attend university if you are more interested in partying and less in academics. I could have gone to Carlton, but I don't think I would have quite the bank of memories which help me through marriage.

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#10 posted by insomma , December 6, 2007 6:14 AM

What's a pumpkin bar?

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#11 posted by mappo , December 6, 2007 7:09 AM

A "pumpkin bar" is just like a "pumkin bar", but with twice as much pee in it.

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#12 posted by nex , December 6, 2007 1:11 PM

I'd never buy from a shop with such a sign, hoping that everyone joins my boycott and the shop owners starve to death. I mean, evolution is such a nice and proven concept, let's give it a chance! This is also why I don't buy CDs from big record labels.

(I'm kidding. About the bakery.)

Pterandon, the reproduction of one of the linked set's images above is neither against bb's policies nor against the law, but the story you're proposing sounds extremely interesting. I'd like to read more about that ... the chances that a bber will have the time to investigate this are probably slim, but I'm sure if you or someone else involved in the Flickr community made an article/video, bb/bbtv would run it.