I seriously lol’d.
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Posted: September 15, 2011 at 11:34 pm.
Sep 15
11:34 pm
Sep 13
7:59 pm
Ladies and gentlemen, the best tweet of the night. Brilliant—and dead-on.
Posted: September 13, 2011 at 7:59 pm.
Sep 9
8:03 pm
One of my new most favorite things on the internets. Happy Friday!
Bonjour, Girl! (by wehoguy30)
Posted: September 9, 2011 at 8:03 pm.
Sep 9
5:13 pm
Compared to the simplistic one-liners sprouting like mushrooms on cover after cover as part of the 9/11 ten year anniversary newsstand pileup, the New Statesman cover kept me going for a while, not just in bringing back names, episodes, chain-of-events, but also for (if you remember the big phrase during the anthrax scare) helping connect-some-dots.
What a nice job this does of capturing how monumentally and pervasively al Qaeda altered the trajectory of this country. Of course, a lot of the references here — Fallujah; Lynndie England; Niger, Bremer — allude to America and Bush Jr.’s neocon-induced self-inflicted wound. But, heavens to Pashtuns, Bagram, Islamaphobia and ID cards, there is a lot more going on here.
(via 9/11 Covers: Beyond the One-Liner — BagNews)
Posted: September 9, 2011 at 5:13 pm.
Sep 8
3:50 pm
Clever billboard for the Dutch Stutter Foundation.
Be Patient Billboard - Osocio, Social Advertising and Non-profit Campaigns
Posted: September 8, 2011 at 3:50 pm.
Sep 7
12:45 pm
A timeline of global media scare stories, 2000-2009
(via Information is beautiful)
Posted: September 7, 2011 at 12:45 pm.
Aug 28
10:05 am
Grote Kunst Voor Kleine Mensen: Chocolade haas (Chocolate bunny) (by KROyouth)
Posted: August 28, 2011 at 10:05 am.
Aug 25
1:13 pm
What women don’t want: pink beer, pink cars, a new pink ghetto
Beer is brown. Apparently, this is a problem for me. It turns out that, as a woman, I require my beverages in a less threatening hue – like pink, which is the colour of a new “crisp rose beer” launching this fall in Britain. Animée is aimed at women, and also comes in white (clear filtered) and yellow (zesty lemon), because those are the colours of spring flowers, and ladies like flowers. It’s also less bloating, because ladies like skinny.
A rep for parent company Molson Coors said: “Women are an essential part of future growth for the beer industry and can no longer be ignored. We need to repair the reputation of beer among women by launching products that meet their needs.”
It’s true that women may be feeling a little alienated after decades of beer ads that present us as extras in Van Halen’s Hot for Teacher video or fun-crushing shrews who get between a good man and his brew. But our needs may not be met by alcoholic Kool-Aid in a soda bottle.
Emphasis mine. I love how marketing people think that just by making something sweet & pink, it’s now universally “for women.” But maybe, just maybe, the reason why women feel alienated by a lot of mainstream beer companies has something to do more with decades of misogynist advertising?
I know I personally don’t like supporting companies that constantly portray women as either arm candy or fun-killing wives that get between a dude and his beer.
Also? I, like many women, grew out of the pink-is-my-favorite-color-everything-must-be-pink phase when I was like 6.
Posted: August 25, 2011 at 1:13 pm.
Aug 24
4:50 pm
"Act of God" Interrupts Pope Benedict's Anti-Gay Speech
Gay weather magic FTW!
Posted: August 24, 2011 at 4:50 pm.
Aug 23
8:31 pm
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