Wednesday, March 10, 2004

Dept. of Re-Branding-Stuff

12th Turkmenbashi

"When are you born? A at the twelfth of Turkmenbashi...

The president of Turkmenistan is taking the branding biz serious and seeking to rename the month of January after himself. Turkmenbashi means 'head of Turkmenistan'.

How's about that? Well, not only that he is having his presidency for life - he have cities, airports, and a meteorite named after him, and other months of the year have been named after his mother, after a poet, and after a book that he wrote (the poet I hope).

Tuesday, March 09, 2004

Dept. of A-Mouthful-Of-Art

Chewing the art

What is art?

That question is maybe eternal and here is an artist who really re-lives the question: his "paintings" are made out of chewing gum.

I mean - this is rather peculiar and strange. Imagine the way that guy is working... looking like a cow chewing and chewing on and on.

And when the red color is out he have to get down the candy store to get some new packets of gum.

Monday, March 08, 2004

Dept. of Lettuce-Violence

The brawl around the salad bar

The guys at The Smoking Gun have dug up a truly anti-vegetarian story when they posting the policereport on the big brawl around the salad bar down in Retirements-Paradise Florida.

62 year old Hooker was giving the 86 year old the menu of boxing.

And they say that the older have something to learn young people... the perfect hook?

Sunday, March 07, 2004

Dept. of Apples-In-Redmond

Behind enemyline

"as if they were working for a division of General Motors making parts for Volkswagens."

They might be the aliens of the Big Software Co, or like putting Usama as vice-POTUS. The Mac lovers of Microsoft is a strange part of the company, like soldiers not on any side or on both. They are coding the Mac-versions of popular Microsoft-applications and they are the only ones with a Mac in their lap. Sometimes they forced to show their badges when putting up their computers in the conference-rooms. Tough man.

Saturday, March 06, 2004

Dept. of Children-With-Strange-Names

Branding the child


"U.S. Census Bureau reports that over a thousand babies born in the year 2000 were named after luxury goods."

Isn't this strange? Some more new age-inflicted theorists are seeing this to be a way to convey status and power to the children through their names, something that seem to be almost archetyphical since naming a child should be correlated to the child's personality (example Native American names).

"These attempts to cash in on corporate cachet on behalf of the just-born seem a bit short-sighted because of all the baggage these names carry. What if young Timberland is spooked by the woods? What if Guinness can't hold his beer? How will Porsche feel driving a Neon? And what if the namesake of your brand name baby tanks big time? Just explain to your kid why you named him Parmalat."

My thought is: what if the young homie Lexus Chanel Anderson is jailed for a killing - should the companies owning the brands sue his parents on brand inflicting?

Friday, March 05, 2004

Dept. of Scary-Gadgets

Sweet dreams are made of this

Don't you sometimes wish you could decide what to dream about when sleeping those few hours that is needed to be as functional as expected?

"The dream machine comes equipped with a voice recorder, array of lights, picture frame, fragrance dispenser, selection of internally stored background music, two speakers and a timer.
Working in conjunction, these components allow users to design their dreams through multisensory stimuli of scents, sounds and more.
we're told by Wired News.

And of course, it made in Japan. The home of The Divine Gizmo.

But who can be happy ever after reading about the Deep Sleep of Reality? No, cause real scientists in the dreary area of sleep says that noone can tell when REM is occurring (well - why don't you call Michael Stipe? *arr-arr*) and then this timing idea of set more stimuli to the dreamer is a setback.

Thursday, March 04, 2004

Dept. of State-Of-The-Ass

Painting with your butt

One never stops to be fascinated by the fantasy people are able to develop when coming to nudity. This is Joe Gallant and his hired porn-stars that paints pictures through squirting...

I wonder if the paintings is for sale... I mean "Weeeh! I have a painting made by Sydney Moon!"

But(t) it´s just a evolution of the sixties artist Yves Klein who let nude women make paintings using their own bodies.

Wednesday, March 03, 2004

Dept. of Work-Force

Not that bad being between jobs

Dvorkin is putting up a story about the benefits of being unemployed and this is all from getting rid of telemarketers and other solicitors to being more close to his spouse...

Other surprising benefits is that the cluttered house got cleaned and learned the Free Enterprise Hurrah! system.

Tuesday, March 02, 2004

Dept. of ESP

Feel the pain

This is somewhat a classic. There's lot of journalists who been revealed to report from places but themselves sitting at some hotel far away.

The weatherman Gary LaPierre WBZ Radio was talking about the cold weather and, as usual, got the listeners to feel that he was in Boston looking out the window. But he wasn't.

The report of one of the coldest mornings in Boston was sent from his condo down in Florida. And this story did uncover that LaPierre did this often. He had furnitured a studio in his house and with the help of Internet and other communication tools he could paint the picture of the weather.

That's a new way - think about the highway-reporter who reporting from the Boeing on his way to Bali: "Well, at the interstate there is a huge caravan of... camels...".

Monday, March 01, 2004

Dept. of Childrens-Treat

This candy isn't childrens finest

Every saturday my kids is starving for candy.

I wonder where I could find this sorted goods which the guys making Bad-Candy.com is testing.

Yes - it is a site dedicated to candy that tastes bad and/or are looking more like dog-feces.