I have a friend who is enduring jury duty today. While IMing me from the Halls of Justice in San Jose about the intense boredom, and how he can't talk to the pretty girls nearby because he's dressed like a street punk in an attempt to be excused, and how this is his one day off during the week that he's spending this way, I had a thought:

They shouldn't call it jury duty anymore. Making it a duty right off the bat like that makes people spend more time trying to get out of it than anything else. Instead, they should call it jury opportunity and market it as something that allows you get out of work for the day. He came back with "Why spend an hour of your life driving to work and getting frustrated when you can drive for half an hour and send someone to jail!"

I'll let you know when we start our PR business.

In the meantime, can you spot which are real and which are fake? [via Reecie] I got 14 out of 20 right. I've never been good at this sort of thing.