Archive for September, 2009
Socks know what’s cool
Here’s a nice little PSA for teens on standing strong when girlfriends or boyfriends try to pressure or control you via cellphone. The spot is called “That’s Not Cool.”
The music and narration are nice, but the use of sock puppets and talking apples seems a little Sesame Street to us. And we’re guessing (though we [...]
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Tags: PSA, sexting, teen
Will Tweet for $1M
Twitter raised another $100M. We want some of it.
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Tags: $100M, financing, funding, investment, twitter
Made you look
When the new Audi R8 went on sale in Canada this year, it sold out fast.
Appropriate, since everything about this car is fast.
For those of us who missed out on taking one of these bad boys home, however, there is a solution: a giant sticker you can throw on your [closed] garage door to make [...]
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Tags: audi, marketing, r8, supercar, v10
Run for your lives
New York City got hit this morning with 10,000 of these phony newspapers predicting an impending environmental apocalypse. The move is timed to precede Tuesday’s U.N. climate change summit, and was carried out by the Yes Men.
The most hilarious part? Since everything but the cover is fact-checked and accurate, the only thing Rupert Murdoch Corp [...]
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Tags: climate change, new york post, phony, summit, UN, yes men
Losing control of your brand
Dude, where’s my sign?
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Tags: bennington, brand, chili's, theft
Burning the pages of history
A prep school in Massachusetts is dropping a cool half-mil on flat screens, laptop carousels, e-readers and a full-blown cafe for their library. And they’re chucking all the books.
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Tags: books, cushing academy, e-reader, kindle, technology
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