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How Not To Advertise An Alcoholic Beverage
8:41AM Hamilton Nolan | Bad enough the lady is drinking and driving with only one hand because she’s holding a (hallucinated?) dragon in the other hand. Also, her eyes are closed. More »
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Facebook’s Unauthorised Jailbait Ad Models
5:09AM Ryan Tate | How did pictures of scantily clad, apparently underaged girls end up used without permission in an ad campaign on Facebook? Blame affiliate advertising, and the limits of the social network’s ad screening. More »
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Host Your Own Awful Party For Windows 7
4:41AM Ryan Tate | Microsoft’s next operating system, Windows 7, is available to the public October 22. So why not host an awkward launch party for a perfectly diverse group of your friends? Microsoft made an unbearable video tutorial to get you going. More »
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Wrangler Wearers Accused Of Thinking
6:50AM Hamilton Nolan | Wrangler—the jeans for those who think Levis are a little faggy—grinds on with its ferociously mistargeted ad campaign. Whereas actual Wrangler wearers would probably enjoy, say, an endorsement by Clint Bowyer, what they get is some existentialist bullshit. More »
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Free Affair And Bastard Child With Your Denmark Trip
7:34AM Ryan Tate | Denmark’s tourist board has taken an interesting approach: A viral internet campaign implies the country is full of hot, single blonde women eager to get knocked up by anonymous foreigners. There’s been something of a backlash, back home. More »
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NYT Website: All The Malware That’s Fit To Infect Your Computer
7:00AM Foster Kamer | Q: What do the New York Times, hardcore porn sites, and bit torrent bootleg sites have in common? A: Malware! More »
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Steve Jobs And The Journal’s Frightful Ad Placement
5:57AM Ryan Tate | Steve Jobs “appeared thin and spoke with a scratchy voice” on his return from medical leave, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Apparently we had no idea! More »
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Racism Sells!
5:00PM Andrew Belonsky | People have their panties in a twist because an Indian cosmetic company is selling their skin lightening cream by telling dark-skinned men they’re ugly and will never get laid. Um, isn’t the fact that this cream exists problem enough? [CNN]
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Holocaust Denial Finds Place At Harvard Paper
1:00PM Andrew Belonsky | Harvard. It’s revered as one of the world’s most prestigious institutions of higher learning. Why, then, did the university’s newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, run a holocaust denier’s advert after rejecting it over a decade ago? More »
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