We're Eating More Beets!

Man, my dad is gonna hate this.

It looks less newsy than Highlights for Children.

Seems like a smart idea. At least they're trying rather than just throwing up a paywalled website.

It looks more like Imperial Japan Today

The still print USA Today? America's "Feel Good" newspaper?

@ 1, I thought the same thing.

@ Paul, people scan QR codes all the time. I like your stuff most of the time, but every now and then you say some very uninformed things.

@7 http://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.t…

They should make it free. Otherwise, they're just swimming against the swirl in the drain.

Sorry Paul I don't let these new trivial changes distract me from important news, just like you!!

You get the reference I'm making?!

QR codes are the god-damndest stupidest thing ever invented. Most of them can't even be used, or are attached to idiotic things like emails instead of a link. Best of all is when I get a QR code in an email on my phone. How am I supposed to scan my phone with my phone? All I want is a link; correction -- I don't want anything, there has never been a QR code that linked to something interesting.

http://wtfqrcodes.com/

I used to read "USA Today" 25 years ago when I had to calculate all my own baseball statistics and they were the only source available with weekly OPS and SLG. Ah, those pre-internet days, how I do not miss them. I haven't looked at USA Today in print or online in a decade.

It's a tough job keeping pace with modern illiteracy.

I used a QR code for the overpriced movie ticket I bought a couple months ago. It did have utility since I didn't have to print anything out and skipped the lines. They don't always have to encode links, but maybe a real use won't be so supersexy for you people. And I think with some creative steganography, QR codes could look much better than they are presented now.

Wait.

Where is the button to vote All Of The Above (tm)?

Advertisers love putting QR codes on the ads on the train here. Hardly scientific, but I have yet to personally witness anyone scan one. They'd have better luck hiring someone to semaphore their message in each car than to hope someone walks over to their ad and holds their phone up to it.

@15, at that link I posted, there's a hilarious QR code on a big ad in a bus or train that says "Do you have bedbugs? Scan here!" which seems like something you wouldn't want to do in public. Even better would be an ad that says "Scan here to find out how to get rid of chlamydia."

@11,

I think USA Today probably experienced a huge drop in "readership" once fantasy sports players were able to go online for their stat-keeping. I always liked that sports/media columnist they had though. No idea what his name was, just that the little headshot pic that appeared next to his piece bore a striking resemblance to Charles Manson.

Where's the button to vote: "They still print USA Today? Those poor fools."

Also, Proteus @12 wins.

@15 - I think I've got a great sales pitch for the makers of Magnum condoms. Economy, brace yourself.