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More bad news for Starbucks

February 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment

There is an old Indian saying, “When life hands you cows, make teapee”.

Via The Times:
India to launch cow urine as soft drink
Does your Pepsi lack pep? Is your Coke not the real thing? India’s Hindu nationalist movement apparently has the answer: a new soft drink made from cow urine.
The bovine brew is in the [...]

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Design Week Blasts Landor

October 14th, 2007 · No Comments

Blasting Landor’s ridiculous work used to be a burden shouldered solely by Igor, but now the mainstream media has taken up the slack. Via Design Week:
Ben & Jerry’s ice cream – acquired by Unilever in 2000 – was a pioneer of faux-naif design, with its cartoon pictures of cows, clouds and daisies, smile-in-the-mind copy and [...]

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