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Archive for March 2008

March 18th, 2008

KFC Abuse Commercial Parody

A spoof, but still a glimpse of what advertising is coming to . . . .

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March 17th, 2008

Fake Hillary Advertisement

Because it’s an election year . . . .

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March 16th, 2008

Bear Stearns: A Victim of the Times (and Itself)

On a weekend when investors were mostly biding their time waiting for this week’s interest rate cut, news of JPMorgan’s acquisition of investment bank Bear Stearns showed how completely gutted Bear was in the ongoing subprime debacle. (Two versions of a huge Bear hedge fund collapsed last year thanks to imprudent debt investing.)
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March 13th, 2008

Linker Barn: Friday, March 7

Spitzer prostie’s MySpace page in the news.
Pastor’s hellfire sermons put Obama in hot water.
Lettterman’s Top Ten Spitzer Resignation Surprises.
It’s the jackass Amsterdam pics of the week.
Sheboygan juggaloes hit the bricks (look it up).
GripeLine: keeping up with Verizon sneakwrap twists.
The 60 second stopwatch copywriting test.
Poker video: Flashing the hole card scam.
Gilligan’s Island a ganja paradise?
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March 13th, 2008

Soap-On-A-Rope Report: Girls Gone Wild Founder Pleads No Contest

If it weren’t for the geographical distances imposed by jurisdictional separation, Eliot Spitzer entering the court house might run into Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis leaving, now that the notorious boob merchant has pled no contest to one count of felony child abuse and two counts of misdemeanor prostitution.
Francis was sentenced to year of […]

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March 12th, 2008

Monthly Shak Worship: Shakira Happy with Her Boobs

This just in! According to oneindia, HollyScoop, and other respected news sources, pop idol Shakira has overcome anxiety over the size of her breasts.
No one else shared her previous concerns.
Image with permission of Bay Area photographer Steve Kesten.
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March 11th, 2008

Linker Barn: Hump Day March 12

Obama takes Mississippi by storm.
It’s layoff time at Google.
Guy Kawasaki on Alltop social media compiler.
Ryan Caldwell’s PopCrunch show.
Engaging post on Oakland’s historic Tribune Tower.
SXSW tech cab confessions with Irina Slutsky.
Suicide Girls on the abuse of Omar Khadr.
MyCrimeSpace: U.K. gangs are stupid.
tThe three enemies of clear and direct writing.
Stuff white people like: shorts.
Singles & studio […]

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March 11th, 2008

Spitzer: Main Course at the Feast of Hypocrites

New York governor Eliot Spitzer is on the brink of disaster, thanks to a federal complaint that names him as defendant number nine in a prostitution investigation. And the media couldn’t be happier.
Lord knows, I love a juicy political and/or tawdry sex scandal as much as anyone, but I’ll be sorry to see Spitzer […]

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March 11th, 2008

Do a Good Deed: Rescue a Bird with a Tax-Deductible Donation to Mickaboo

Nothing induces thoughts of karmic restoration than waking up in the middle of the night with the taste of blood in your mouth–this is it, I should have lived a better life! Oh no, wait, that’s not my blood-whew!
With still-of-the-night epiphanies in mind, I offer for your perusal the Bay Area’s pet bird […]

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March 9th, 2008

Linker Barn: March 10

Tech Sex mess: Nexopia date rape.
Check out this 3-D immersive photo browsing thing.
Rude Pundit on The Fear Card.
There really are drugs in your drinking water.
Brits come up with camera that sees through clothes.
Snakes on a Plane SmashBros video action.
Vigilante robot cleans up streets?
Video: Carl Icahn a Ghengis Khan?
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Todd […]

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