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I Has Cheezburger Can

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Cheeseburger In a Can courtesy of Al Dente by amazon, where serious gastronomy meets culinary calamity™

Budweiser dilutes its brand…

naming companies
…with dead mollusk secretions. How do you improve on the taste of Bud? Easy, just add clam sweat, tomato juice and lime. If you’ve ever wondered what carbonated turtle blood tastes like, wonder no more.

Funny bit is, it’s not really a brand dilution. The taste of this swill is pretty much in keeping with Budweiser’s established sensibilities.

It’s been dubbed “Chelada”, and for calorie conscious bottom dwellers, it comes in “light” as well.

Eat My Words Name Shame Hall of Fame™

The Kitchen Sink, the hot dish and name-dropping blog by the delectable Alexandra Watkins, is where you’ll find the first 2008 inductees into the fantabulous Eat My Words Name Shame Hall of Fame™, including some repeat offenders. Each name is eligible to win the #1 Head Scratcher™ award at the end of the year. Alexandra invites naming aficionados to keep those nominations coming, and she’ll post more.

Take a quick look at this video of 5,000 Web 2.0 names and logos for ideas.

Explaining the Word of the Year

The American Dialect Society, the 118-year-old organization of linguists, lexicographers, etymologists, grammarians, historians, researchers, writers, authors, editors, professors, university students, and independent scholars, has chosen “subprime” as 2007’s Word of the Year, as reported recently on CNNmoney.com.

“‘Subprime’ has been around with bankers for awhile, but now everyone is talking about ’subprime,”‘ said Wayne Glowka, a spokesman for the group and a dean at Reinhardt College in Waleska, Ga. “It’s affecting all kinds of people in all kinds of places.”

In this YouTube video segment, a couple of Brits embark on an explanation of the so-called “subprime” situation in America.

“These hedge funds, as they’re called, which specialize in these debts, they all have very good names.”

Cafe Mao and the Soup Nazi

Kill six millions Jews in Germany, your name becomes a synonym with evil. Kill between 44 and 72 million Chinese, you get a café named after you. It’s a funny old world, eh?

- commenter Jill Murphy on Samizdata

Remember Coffee Shops Before Starbucks and iPhone?

Thanks to Starbucks and Apple, Seinfeld episodes like that just won’t be funny anymore. A new Web 3.0 generation will go, like, why didn’t she simply order the coffee on her iPhone?

Mazda Ferrari Mashup

MazdaFurai

What do you call a cross between a Ferrari and a Mazda?

iTaser

Popular Mechanics finds the weirdest products at the consumer electronics show, CES 2008.

What do you get when you mix a dangerous weapon with an MP3 player? Well, it’s not quite a humanitarian crisis so much as a case of gadget convergence straight out of The Onion. I mean, seriously, this thing’s called the iTaser.

Is this a hoax?

Go to www.itaser.com to see who makes this stunning fashion accessory.

Here Comes Another Bubble

need a good domain name
must be cheap, can’t be lame
something cool like flickr, meebo, wikiyou, mahalo, bebo
“telephone” without the “t”
“digg” but with a triple “g”

Marketing Voodoo

Seth Godin Action Figure Marketing guru Seth Godin has his own action figure! Not sure what the hell it’s good for? There are a few suggestions on Seth’s Blog, but there may be better, more effective, ideas in this book. ;-)


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