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angrylush: June 2009
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Friday, June 26, 2009. Edible Junk: real stories about fake food. The one nice thing about being a student is the attrocious diet of trans-saturated garbage and alcohol. I remember when the CBC's Street Cents did a scientific analysis of Cheese Whiz to determine if it were food, or just melted orange trash bags. As it turns out it's actual cheese. Pringles in the UK recently came under the same scrutiny. What surprised me wasn't that. Kit Kat in Japanese is Kitto Katso, and it means "surely win". What I'...
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angrylush: Media Manipulation: broadcasters now able to airbrush audio
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009. Media Manipulation: broadcasters now able to airbrush audio. Blogging has been hard on account of work going extremely well, but you know I'd crawl out of a crypt to put a spotlight on something that bugs me. Keeping with the smart phone theme I've been on recently, I got a tweet from Sam of O&A Radio fame and my first thought is of all those Nazi slaves working for Bayer back in the day. What the hell does that mean, you ask? How someone can take this and make one snipped. Keepin...
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angrylush: Customer DisService: iPhones and BlackBerry's and Palm Pre's, oh my...
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009. Customer DisService: iPhones and BlackBerry's and Palm Pre's, oh my. I do not have a smart phone, but I need one and the question has been, iPhone vs. BlackBerry. I've come to no conclusion, but this. Certainly doesn't help Apple's case. People were saying the Palm Pre would be the iPhone killer. . nope, turns out that AT&T will be the iPhone killer", according to @brickworkz. This is more to talk about customer depreciation. I've come to no conclusion on iPhone vs. BlackBer...
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angrylush: Reinventing the Ball-and-Chain for the Workplace
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Monday, June 1, 2009. Reinventing the Ball-and-Chain for the Workplace. In olden times, you could slap a cannonball to a dude's leg and feel pretty confident he wasn't going anywhere. Today, the urge to close your laptop, shut off your monitor and give into the Siren call of the TV or the pub can be nearly irresistable. Advertising creatives are not known for ability to focus and concentrate, so the Study Ball works with your natural inclination. How does it work? Also, by safety, I mean legal. In olden ...
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angrylush: The Human Eye: actually filled with a kind of urine!
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Friday, May 29, 2009. The Human Eye: actually filled with a kind of urine! Ad school taught me some weird things, and one was that the human eye does a backwards Z across any page it reads, skimming along, hoping to be stimulated, becoming disappointing and trying again on the next page. According to the hard working folks at Eyetrack. It does something more like this:. Let's focus on it's troubling figures on headlines to start. Now let's look at that body copy. This eye-eating abomination (not sure...
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angrylush: Promotions That Make Sense: 99 cent NYC cab rides (tipping is optional, cursing is free)
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009. Promotions That Make Sense: 99 cent NYC cab rides (tipping is optional, cursing is free). For those of you new to promotions, it is recommended but not morally obligatory to make your promotions make sense, but it's great if you can. Cut out my heart if I'm lying, but I saw a banner outside a bar that offered free manicures with the purchase of a certain kind of beer. A dark stout beer at that. What does that have to do with banking? Today and today only, I see this aweso. This ...
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angrylush: April 2009
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009. Marketing as Dating: let's hook up and exchange money for services rendered. Lot of people I talk to are in dark places right now. They see excess office furniture and the people who used it carted out on dollies and they panic. Belt tightening can be inevitable. Even the parades of former co-workers dead-man-walking out the front door seems understandable to a degree. Be a good listener. The dating scene seems a little quiet out there, doesn't it? Try, try again. Reinventing y...
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angrylush: Advertising and Children: who needs times-tables when you have Happy Meals™
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Thursday, May 28, 2009. Advertising and Children: who needs times-tables when you have Happy Meals™. So my son woke me up telling me he needed Star Wars toilet paper. That Star Wars Toilet Paper was the only paper that could help his bum. He just turned four, and has never seen Star Wars, so I'm thinking there is actually a product called Star Wars Toilet Paper. Trademarking off Carrie Fisher squating in front of a droid begging for help? We're all familiar with the use of cartoon characters and toys to ...
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angrylush: May 2009
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Friday, May 29, 2009. The Human Eye: actually filled with a kind of urine! Ad school taught me some weird things, and one was that the human eye does a backwards Z across any page it reads, skimming along, hoping to be stimulated, becoming disappointing and trying again on the next page. According to the hard working folks at Eyetrack. It does something more like this:. Let's focus on it's troubling figures on headlines to start. Now let's look at that body copy. This eye-eating abomination (not sure...
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angrylush: March 2009
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009. TrendFlogging: Reinveting Street Meat Tweet Mobbing for MexiKorean Taco Goodness. Long story short: Los Angeles restauranteur and entrepreneur Roy Choi started Kogi, a mobile Korean Taco business. At first people flashed more. Gang signs than money at him, b. Ut what started very slow as haute-cuisine in a cube van quickly spawned a cullinary monster. By the time Newsweek. Is a single tweet announcing the expected arrival time of one of his trucks outside a busy L.A. bar. Usiness...