Snapfish or Shutterfly? As the branding wars heat up between photo-sharing-print-ordering websites, Slate offers a detailed review.

The Arizona Republic declares MySpace has lost its cool factor, now that lawmakers have discovered it:

Our favorite is Rep. Pamela Gorman’s, whose online nickname is “The One.” Also, the Anthem Republican’s site’s name is www.myspace.com/gopdiva. No ego problems there.

One of Gorman’s “friends” is a dashing tuxedoed figure whose crafty online handle is “Bob.” Turns out it’s Rep. Bob “Bob” Stump, R-Peoria.

“I use it to keep in touch with friends,” Stump said. “And I am single!”

He has plenty of friends, 60 so far, lots more than any other lawmakers we found.

The other can’t-miss site belongs to newly minted Sen. Ed Ableser, D-Tempe. Ableser, who was appointed last month to replace Sen. Harry Mitchell, wasted no time in setting up his “Senator Ed” page, complete with photos of the boy senator getting sworn in, giving a floor speech and running a triathlon.

Rep. Jonathon Paton, R-Tucson, and Trish Groe, R-Lake Havasu, also have sites, but they just feature their official-looking mug shots and not much else.

Boring. They’ll never attract as many friends as “Bob” or “The One” that way.

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Ad Rag has a post about Swedish clothier H&M taking “in your face naming” a bit too literally. Seems the name of their new men’s jeans line, “Fit Sliq”, is a provocative phrase in their native tongue.

Levi’s has a style of jeans named “Knee Knocker”, which is a provocation all its own in English.

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