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marketing

"Shoot the inlaws, frame the wife, hang the kids."

Best tagline for a photographer ever.

"The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference."

Fred Allen, American comic.

Zynga: forget games, let's just do viruses


Zynga is notorious for borderline tactics, from the first Farmville scamville stories to its very agressive use of Facebook’s social channels. There is a difference between making something intrisically viral - think Draw Something or SongPop - and behaving like a virus doing actions on behalf…

Hit the link for the full post on Scammynga and their Scamvilles.

“Irrigation liquid for human varieties.”

Guess “water” was not descriptive enough.

Which Shreddies do you like better, the old squares or the new diamonds?

Brands that people rave about but actually suck

BOSE (go with Sennheiser instead)
Black & Decker (go with DeWalt instead)
Beats by Dr.Dre (Sennheiser again)
FIJI water
Schwinn 
Alienware from DELL
Greygoose Vodka (suggested alternative: Tito’s handmade vodka)
Lululemon
Monster cable
Maytag
Victoria’s secret 
Gibson (Rickenbackers)