Wear your glasses when buying fruit. Those annoying fruit stickers do seem to have a purpose. Five digit numbers beginning with 9 are organic, five digits beginning with 8 are genetically modified. Stickers with only four digits indicate “conventionally grown” fruit. This article says the glue holding the stickers on is edible, and suggests soaking the fruit in warm water to remove stubbornly attached stickers. Via Anne Strieber editor of Unknown Country News. The pear was delicious.

These flyers made me laugh. "Friend for Hire." $20/hr. I saw them up on several light poles this past Friday.