Posted in advertising, humor on May 24th, 2008
I’ve never used Old Spice and I couldn’t tell you what it smells like. Have you seen the cross-promotional Jackie Moon commercials for Old Spice?
Everybody sweats, but most people would be surprised to know that they sweat 6 liters per day. Now I’m not familiar with the metric system or any other foreign language but [...]
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Posted in advertising on Apr 7th, 2008
I was meddling with FeedBurner settings early today — researching something for a customer — and wasn’t able to tell how the FeedBurner Ad Network and/or Google AdSense for Content actually appears in the feed body. Based on their advertising specs I know they’re in the feeds, but it wasn’t horribly clear from the documentation [...]
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Heading north on Russell Street just before Ravens stadium there’s a billboard that proclaims “Marriage works” while depicting a cheery-faced couple. What are the advertisers trying to sell here in Baltimore? A church? the institution of marriage itself? As far as I can see from the street there isn’t a sponsor listed. Lots a people [...]
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I find ProcessLibrary to be incredibly useful when diagnosing Windows systems. The site — with a refreshingly clean interface despite it being an advertisement-page-disguised-as-a-tool — will tell you all about processes that you find listed in Task Manager. A quick summary of whether it is good or bad, but with details of what it does, [...]
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They came out of nowhere and now they’re everywhere. How do they have the bandwidth to support all the hotlinking? Are IPOs coming back?
The Mingle2 quizes are cute in a 1996 sort of way, but they’re hardly worth pasting cheeky HTML. Hideous text is better. To answer the handful of people who have asked [...]
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Posted in advertising, food, gaming, humor, money on Jun 26th, 2007
I don’t gamble that often, so I was a bit suprised when I got a letter from the Assistant Vice President of Marketing of the Tropicana last week. Now I’m sure there’s a dozen Assistant VPs of Marketing at every major casino in Atlantic City, but this letter made me laugh.
“I’ve enclosed your latest Tropicana [...]
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Posted in advertising, culture, idiots on Jun 22nd, 2007
I was flipping radio stations on the way home today and heard of HOT 99.5’s Kane Pays Your Bills promotion. The premise is simple enough; tell them why they should pay your bills and they might choose to call you and pay them.
I don’t have a problem with the promotion itself.
I have a problem with [...]
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If you query “retarded wheelchair semi“, you find this jewel. A man was taken for 50mph ride when his wheelchair somehow got lodged in the front grille of a semi parked at a gas station. Neither the police nor the driver of the semi believed the initial reports from passing motorists that there was indeed [...]
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Posted in advertising, site news on Jun 8th, 2007
To make my blog stick out, I decided to submit a face to Blogtimore. I do enjoy free things, you know. Then it occured to me that I had no suitable images; the only images I had came with the theme. So being the geek that I am I whipped out my (literally) dusty copy [...]
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Posted in advertising, food, oddities on Jun 6th, 2007
Take a packet of Lipton’s French Onion dry soup mix and knead it into a pound of ground beef. Form the beef into patties and cook on a charcoal grill. Serve on a plain flour roll with ketchup and one or two pickles. We used to make these when I was a kid. Refreshingly different, [...]
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Why it is that many of the popular prescription antidepressants may increase the risk of suicide? I’m not a doctor, but if depression is a catalyst for suicidal tendencies then shouldn’t antidepressants reduce the risk of suicide? You’d think, but now the FDA is mandating suicide warnings be placed on the labels and in the [...]
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Driving through Severna Park last week I noticed that the 7-11 on the corner of Benfield and Jumpers Hole had removed all references to Citgo in favor of a generic 7-11 logo. I suspected that they weren’t too keen on Hugo Chavez’s behavior. It turns out I was right, although late with the news as [...]
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Posted in advertising, housing, idiots, money, privacy on May 30th, 2007
“Life’s too short to clean your own house,” proclaims an ad for a cleaning company that was mailed to me. I’d argue that I don’t care enough pay someone else to clean my own house. Part of owning a home is taking care of it (or opting not to take care of it). I have [...]
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Posted in advertising, plans on May 24th, 2007
I’ve been thinking about my pricing model for side work; specifically I’ve been debating offering monthly plans either in conjunction or instead of a flat hourly rate. Despite not being a fan of monthly service contracts, they make sense for the industry and potentially for me and my clients.
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Posted in advertising, housing, television on Apr 4th, 2007
I just received an eight page newsletter from Behnke Nurseries. There’s something I can’t figure out. Why would a nursery send out a flyer to an entire ZIP+4 where the owners — in addition to having no more than 20 square feet of lawn — have landscaping done for them by Brickman whether they want [...]
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