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Girl Scout cookies season is upon us, and we are all better for it. Well, most of us are. A gaggle of Burlingame Girl Scouts were injured earlier this month after a truck plowed into them while hawking cookies. And this North Carolina scout who got busted for successfully promoting her goods on YouTube. (The Girl Scouts have a ban on Internet sales in order to protect the girls' safety.)

While a gaggle of Girl Scouts were selling cookies in Burlingame on Sunday afternoon -- is it that time of year again already? -- a vehicle accidentally struck them and a few other people, according to police. The collision happened on Chapin Avenue after a 58-year-old man was trying parking his car, accidentally stepping on the gas rather than the brake. He wasn't charged with a crime. According to reports, "[f]ive people were taken to a hospital" and "[a]n 8-year-old girl and her mother are in serious condition at Stanford Medical Center with leg injuries." No other injures were reported.

The Girl Scouts were out in full force today hawking their partially hydrogenated oily sweetness. Little bitches in green were relentless around city sidewalks this afternoon, and for that we love them. Who knew it was cookie season? We didn't. And at the end of the day we ended up with four boxes of Samoas.

In tech news, stoned graphic designers were stunned when they realized that they had no idea that Adobe was going to swallow Macromedia whole. South Park laughs to keep from crying.

If it seems like it's a shinier, happier world out there, it's because this week is "No Name-Calling Week." All week Middle Schools taking part in the program will teach kids that calling each other names is bad…mmmm…kay? Participating schools will receive a resource guide that includes lesson plans, a video for classroom use and other promotional materials. At the end of the week, an essay and poetry contest will be held. We're sure the kiddies will be right on that.