Buy Or Don’t Buy

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Don’t Buy: Omegle

So, there is this new website called Omegle where you can chat with a stranger. I know what you’re thinking: Isn’t that what AOL chatrooms and bars are for?
Well, Omegle offers you a sense of anonymity unmatched by a clever screen name or telling people your name is “Savannah.” You are given no [...]

BODB: David Lynch TV

First: By “David Lynch TV,” I don’t mean Twin Peaks. That would be a definite Buy.
What I do mean is his newly launched website, David Lynch Foundation Television. The David Lynch Foundation was created to promote Transcendental Meditation, which Lynch has been practicing for 35 years, and to provide funding for students to [...]

Buy: Turtles’ Web 1.0

2009 marks the 25th anniversary of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I just found out! And what month are they hosting a party? APRIL! Get it?
They made this super rad video to give 39 Clues about where the party’s going to be:

Up and down!
So what emotion came over me as I opened an email from [...]

Don’t Buy: The Libertines still being broken-up

It was always the Libertines’ peculiar curse that people were nostalgic for them even when they were still together. Their songs were never particularly great and now sound nearly indistinguishable, but every so often you’d catch on to some wonderful moment that made you think they certainly had the possibility of greatness in them. (My [...]

Don’t Buy: Your/You’re Mixups

There was only one way 2009 could have gotten worse for Alex Rodriguez, and it just happened. From the NY Daily News:
A former Manhattan madam who supplied Eliot Spitzer with hookers also counted Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez as a customer - and found him so charming she dated him herself for free, former employees of [...]

Buy: Food Friendzy

One of the main problems with Facebook’s actual usefulness as a promotional tool is that most of its applications are really annoying. Yes, I thought it was adorable when my study abroad friend sent me virtual smažený sýr through the Czech Food app, but now it’s merely irritating when every other day I’m notified [...]

Buy: The Pop Rocks Urban Legend

Little Mikey’s disappearance caused the candy to be discontinued in 1980. Most people laughed it off, what a quirky joke.
But let me tell you something: Little Mikey? He was my stepbrother. My stepbrother.
And now he’s dead.

Buy: Imagery and Symbolism

Check out this amazing ad and try and guess what product it’s for. I’ll give you a hint: It’s super-tasteful.

This ad is screaming to be a post on The XX Factor.  Where to start? In some respects, it’s a milestone. As far as I know, it’s the first razor commercial to suggest that women don’t [...]

BODB: Away We Go

I can’t decide how I feel about this movie. I know nothing about it except what I saw in the trailer. Let me know what you think:

Pros:

Great cast
thought provoking
A probably slightly funny coming-of-age movie
will probably make me cry

Cons:

Trite
Depressing
Wrong dose of quirkiness?

Details:
Hitting theaters June 11th, 2009. It has the Office’s John Krasinski (humor cred), Jim Gaffigan [...]

Don’t Buy: Russell Brand’s typecast

I hate type casting. But Brand came to America already with his one-stop character built, packaged and ready to go. So what is he doing now? Keeping it. Promoting it. And generally annoying me with it.

The amount of experience I have with Brand is probably about average to the average American. I saw him in [...]