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Don’t Buy: Sports in 3D

Hey, remember when “Avatar” made lots of money? Let’s use that as an opportunity to learn all the wrong lessons!
From USA Today:
This week, ESPN announced plans to launch an all-sports 3D [television] network on June 11, starting with World Cup soccer and eventually including the Summer X Games (extreme sports) and college basketball and college [...]

Don’t Buy: Kanye Memes

I’ve been very busy lately, so I’ve had no choice but to have today’s post ghostwritten by a Foppish Victorian Dandy with a prejudice against gypsies. My apologies for the oversight.
Heavens! The events of recent days have proven to me most distressful! Lest you be IGNORANT, I shall tell the tale:
A young Gibson girl of [...]

Don’t Buy: Tweet-speak

Chuck Grassley is a United States Senator from Iowa. He has been in politics since 1959. He is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Senate Committee on Agriculture and the Senate Finance Committee, of which he has twice been the Chair. He is also a grown man capable of expressing himself like an [...]

Buy: iPhone Ads

Imagine walking down the street with your cool iPhone because you are already cool for having one, and bam! right there you realize that ad by the bus stop wants to play with you? What do you do? Do you coyly start pinching and swiping your fingers to manipulate/tickle it? Or shyly wait and watch [...]

Buy: The Number 2

Why you may be asking yourself is the number 2 a buy?
Well, the the best of things is going on right now!! E3 2009: part deux.
E3 is one of the things I look forward to every year (also see Halloween). E3 gives teasers, trailers, and specs for the upcoming games (also see Halloween). Including release [...]

Buy: Ajay Bhatt Dell Commercials

We’ve all seen the commercials where the Mac-Monster (Justin Long) is putting down the little weak computer company made for moms - Dell (John Hodgman). But in case you live in a marketing void, here’s an example:

Proving that Dell IS your mom’s PC, they have fought dry humor with over-the-top-slow-motion-swooning. Watch now as Ajay Bhatt [...]

Buy: AplusK = Twitter caché

Apparently Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk) has been doing the Twitter thing for a while now.  I must admit, I was previously influenced by my interpretation of his personal brand as America’s Zany Prankster Bro, but I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the topics he Tweets about! He’s a big proponent of Social Media, and has actually been doing some fun [...]

Buy: Boxed Water

Ok, so I drink a lot of bottled water.  Sorry guys.  I know it’s supposed to be really selfish or whatever, but that’s a personal branding choice I’m willing to make.  I get thirsty!
Anyway, I’m not sure how I feel about this advance in packaged water design.  On one hand, I can’t really picture myself [...]

Buy: April Fools Day News

One of my favorite things about April 1, (besides the fact that it is my wonderful mother’s birthday,) is that you can’t trust any news you read. In the past, news organizations have convinced their readers that the Swiss were having a fertile spaghetti harvest, that the island of San Serriffe would be a great [...]

Buy: ASmallWorld: Social Networking Elite

Recently, I was invited to ASmallWorld.net, an invite-only social network who’s aim is to connect the top 0.5% (of what you ask? of people, period). At first, the words “pretentious” and “barf” popped in my head, but after interacting with the people on there, I have come to believe this is probably the best social [...]