Long Island City, Queens.

Shoppers flock to festive chair sale in vast empty parking lot surrounded by abandoned factories.

A short item I wrote for today's NYT business section: Having Customers Say No to Tap Water. It's about this article from Coca-Cola, which was ridiculed all over the Web a few weeks ago for its outrageous marketing-speak. Better late than never.

I got a nice note from Freestone Wilson of Tallahassee, Florida, whose site is called My Life After Near Death Experiences.

And Chad Wilcox of Wheeling, West Virginia, writes:

Shut down your site.
It sucks.