Weed Culture is Boob Culture: Why aren’t there more female marijuana activists, Marijuana Policy Project employee Laura Greenback asks in High Times. Ooh! Pick me! I know the answer! It’s not that women don’t like smoking weed. We do. And it’s not that we don’t care about the ass-backwards war on drugs—despite Greenback’s fears, half [...]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — PepsiCo Inc. is facing criticism for an iPhone application that promises to help men “score” with two dozen stereotypes of women by giving users pickup lines and a scoreboard to keep track of their conquests. An apology by the company – which is using the app “Amp up before you score” to [...]

… bravo to these daring young marketing execs.

King Penguin receives Norwegian Knighthood. Fluffy news makes me feel good. Jackson Browne sues McCain, RNC over song in ad. You’re goddamn right. From Maud Newton: Behold: The Google Phone — and its first customer. Leaked footage comes complete with Darth Vader breathing noises. Debate coach shoots for the moon. Norm Stamper: Former Seattle top [...]

Bad things might happen the next time my boss asks me to ‘fix the verbiage on the pamphlet holders’ again. I keep replying, “yes, I will fix the copy.” Apparently, this is not working. I was asked to remove a single, inoffensive ‘some,’ resulting in it looking exactly the same. They wanted less ‘verbiage’ on [...]

I’m not entirely sure what to make of this, but it’s pretty much amazing.

I wonder why marketing people don’t understand that viral memes only come into existence by abiogenesis (spontaneous generation). If you create a viral video and it doesn’t spread, it’s just a video. If you put ‘weird faceless people’ at a sporting event and admit to it a few days later, it’s just a publicity stunt.

I’m disturbed by the way Searching is broken up. It is between syllables but something about this feels wrong. Hell, it just seems lazy.

X USED TO SELL UNSEXIEST THING ON PLANET. It’s SOUP, for crying out loud. I don’t give a fuck how “exotic” your new flavors are, Heinz. And! Who holds a key party with only three couples…