Designed by Judy Lynn of Mirabelle Studios, this year’s Arts Festival poster will be unveiled this Thursday on the Square from 5p-7p.

Satisfy your curiosity and your appetite (free food and drinks.)

More details over at The Minute.

Full disclosure: this story is about two-weeks old.  On top of that, Taylor emailed it to me two weeks ago and I lost it in the shuffle.  This morning, Lump reminds me.

Along with “Hello Kitty Online” and a couple other truly NSFW MMOs, Virtual Decatur recently earned the dubious distinction of “Most Disturbing MMO” by GameSpy.

After pointing out the proposed game’s unfortunate acronym, the article restates much of what we’ve already discussed…

Specifically, you want to start an MMO where the admins physically live in the same town as the players? Really? Do you have no self-preservation instincts? Have you not seen the Internet? It is a place notorious both for its disproportional rage, and the horrors perpetuated behind its pseudo-anonymity. And nobody is more hated than the people in charge.

Forget fruits and vegetables.  Online rage is the elixir of life.

This morning’s AJC has a rather substantial article about the health of small businesses around Atlanta.   To point out some positive examples they featured Marietta and Decatur business owners, including Ettie Wurtzel of Squash Blossom, Bill Baran, and the new owners of Cafe Cliche.  None of the “struggling” examples were from Decatur.

Unfortunately, the article is hardly earth-shattering.  Some business are doing well, but are wary.  Others aren’t doing well…and are wary.   I would have loved to see a comparison of ITP/OTP, a look at what types of businesses are doing well vs. those that are not, etc…

But hey, in the age of headlines like “Boston Globe could file shutdown notice Monday“, I guess I’m expecting too much.