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My only question is how he didn’t drink the beer. […]

An Indian blogger says Samsung threatened to leave him high and dry after he refused to be their booth bunny at the IFA trade show in Germany.

Nick Barber writing at Macworld:

Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy Camera, introduced at this week’s IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, takes clear, colorful images but is buggy and slow.

App Cubby developer David Barnard posted an interesting piece on pricing apps.

But at some local restaurants, the hospitality appears to be wearing thin. At least two eateries admit they allow servers to add an automatic gratuity on the bills of diners who appear to be Québecois. Why? Because Canadians are presumed to be bad tippers. A few local servers even have a nickname for the surcharge: They call it the “Queeb tax.”

It’s not just Vermont. Quebecers are notoriously bad tippers, even in Canada. Slap the tax on them.

There’s a question for you.

Shawn Blanc put together a few tricks he’s come across for OmniFocus users.

Many thanks to Pixelmator for sponsoring The Loop’s RSS feed this week.

Pixelmator – beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editing app for Mac OS X.

About 10 million pounds of syrup was stored at the site, at a value of more than $30-million.Anne-Marie Granger Godbout, executive director of the federation, said the organization is still trying to determine how much is missing and declined to offer an estimate. But a spokesman from the Sureté du Québec said the loss was significant.

Only in Canada.

I don’t care, I want some of that.

Earlier this year, I made a few bold CAPScalls. Of course, as with many moves one might consider “bold,” you can find yourself boldly wrong.I put red-thumb, underperform calls on Apple and Netflix, two stocks that have long been among individual investors’ favorites. This was despite the fact that I had previously called out both stocks with “outperform” ratings in the Motley Fool’s CAPS database for years.

Good to admit when you’re wrong.

Cool Material:

For some inexplicable reason, dessert has never been seen as a man’s game. Yeah, we’ll eat it, but baking never seemed to be nearly as manly as tossing a steak on the grill. If you’re ready to put your ego aside (at least partially) here are some desserts you could whip up that have a bit of macho in them.

“Chocolate-Dipped Beer Marshmallows”? “Bourbon Marshmallow Bacon S’mores”? “Beeramisu”? Well, there goes my diet.

I can’t imagine what it’s like when that gun goes off.

It’s not Heineken, but kudos for the ad. […]

There’s a lot of truth to this.

Instantly create beautiful etched illustrations from any photo! Experiment with eight stunning styles you can tweak to fit your image perfectly — it’s easy and fun to turn your photo into a unique work of art.

This looks cool.

I guess this is me as a muppet. […]

Mike Rose dug into this and says Mac users aren’t likely to be affected.

On this episode Myke is joined by Jim Dalrymple. They discuss Jim’s process for finding stories and posting to The Loop, his Membership scheme, what it’s like to keep secrets and the Apple vs Samsung lawsuit.

Slate:

If you’ve ever met a Swede, chances are you asked her the following question: “What do you think of [ABBA/Ikea/The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo/socialized medicine/the Swedish Chef]?”

For Swedes, it’s the last of these questions—the one about the unintelligible, shotgun-wielding, and much beloved chaos Muppet—that is especially vexing.

Remember the Fawlty Towers episode where Basil says, “don’t mention the war!” Well, apparently Swedes can be a bit touchy about being asked about The Muppet’s Swedish Chef – who knew!? Turns out, he’s probably Norwegian.

Jim Dalrymple and Dan Benjamin discuss what we’ll see at the upcoming Apple events, Twitter’s change in demographic focus, a leaked HTC tablet with curious iMac styling, the outcome of the Apple v. Samsung lawsuit, guitars, and more!

Yeah, what Gruber said.

The owner of an Indian clothing store said Wednesday that he would only change its name from “Hitler” if he was compensated for re-branding costs, amid a growing row over the new shop.The outlet, which sells Western men’s wear, opened 10 days ago in Ahmedabad city in the western state of Gujarat with “Hitler” written in big letters over the front and with a Nazi swastika as the dot on the “i”.

Wow.

A man pretending to be Bigfoot was killed when two cars ran him over.

Clearly this was built for me.

Just try and tell me that didn’t make you smile. […]

I opened up the new sponsorships for October and November today. If you want to get your iOS or Mac product in front of The Loop’s savvy, good looking and talented readers, then this is the only way to do it.

You can see what we offer on the Sponsorship page.

Sponsoring The Loop this week is Pixelmator, an app that has not only become one of my all-time favorites, but also an app that makes me more productive. There’s a lot to like about Pixelmator, but for me it’s just the fact that it’s the best at what it does without a lot of confusing menus and clutter.

Just go buy it, you won’t regret it.

Michael Lopp:

Let’s start with the most basic rule of listening: If they don’t trust you, they aren’t going to say shit.

Some great advice on how to listen and interact with people.