Guerilla marketing turning … more organized, prevalent and nastier. What used to be singular events linked to certain products and unscrupulous advertisers is now a way of life and a business model in itself.
[Ted Murphy], who founded a Tampa-based interactive ad agency called MindComet, also runs a side business that pays bloggers to write nice […]
It reads like a paragraph from Les Misérables frankly. Way to prioritize during and in the wake of Katrina.
Three people convicted of hauling away liquor, wine and beer from a grocery store after Hurricane Katrina were sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison.
The judge said he wanted to send a message that looting would not […]
Sploid strikes again. On freedom of speech (and thought) in America and redundant laws that serve no purpose other than making sure that everyone is not granted equal protection under the law. Or to put it another way, some are more equal than others.
Freedom-loving Americans are all talking about the same thing: Is it legal […]
News is slow this time of year, but here is nevertheless an insightful piece of hypocrisy. The first case of Female Genital Mutilation was tried in a Swedish court, resulting in massive fines and four years in prison for the parent in question. So far so good. FGM is notoriously inappropriate. But wait, why is […]
Someone over at Metafilter started a thread about one of the many implications of nanotechnology. Namely not having to work, ever. Well, maybe. Well, most of us in the western world don’t HAVE to work at the present either, but we still do. So maybe we can’t make food out of grass clippings yet, but […]
The US House of Representatives shoots down a raise of the minimum wage, selectively cuts the estate tax, gives themselves ponies to carry the huge bags of cash they just awarded themselves. All in a week’s work. At least they’re winning the war on the poor. And voting. Some numbers may prove insightful.
(Boston Globe) Today, […]
David Galbraith has dug out a pertinent fact from the Pew Center report on the Islam-West “rift.”
According to the results of this 14,000 person study about how much all of the various Abrahamic sects hate each other in various parts of the world, there is a little reported fact due to the focus on Muslim […]
A Hollywood firm and it Lebanese lackeys creates propaganda clip for US controlled Iraqi television. Americans have reached new levels of delusion and overconfidence in their own product indeed. But then again, this sort of folly is mainly directed for the benefit of the MTV addicted, flatscreen overspending, flag-touting zombies at home. And as many […]
As it turns out, the US government has been secretly tapping bank records and transfers of American and foreign citizens.
The Bush administration, relying on a presidential declaration of emergency, has secretly been tapping into a vast global database of confidential financial transactions for nearly five years, according to U.S. government and industry officials.
Initiated shortly after […]
Those that dismissed RFID security and privacy concerns out of hand and placed it in the tin foil category might want to take a look at this latest development.
Plans to track the movements of once-free Americans continue to march forward. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags are being put into everything from your passport to your […]
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