July 23 2008
Highly Caffeinated Choice Links
posted by Ana Samways at 4:42 pm
Cynical celeb-obsessed game: “It’s Rock Star Rehab, the board game where the most tragic players become the most famous winners! Yep, just roll the dice and move your drunken celebutante around the board, stopping at LA nightclubs, VIP parties…even jail!” Go here.
TV ads are the new global warming villains. How ridiculous.
A waterproof coating that lets you spill, pour, or submerge your gadget in a liquid and have it survive. Imagine the fun you can have setting your mobile phone to vibrate and dropping it in your beer…
The Hitler Pact: Adolf Hitler’s American relatives vowed never to marry or have children. Not so much to cut the family lineage, but to spare others what they went through.
Media behaving badly: Jealous she gets US$103,000 more than him, a news anchorman hacked his co-anchor’s email for two years, sending her bikini pictures far and wide (her nickname, from a previous episode of misconduct, is “anchorbabe”). (Hat tip to Rex)
Mothers addicted to … not meth, not even fags … but caffeine.
Fast Food is for the carnivores: In an effort to appease PETA and other angry vegetarians, KFC recently began selling a vegan “Unchicken” sandwich in its Canadian locations. Guess what? It’s not vegetarian.
When editorial and advertising collide: Here are some of the best juxtapositions on the web.
Product placement in American regional news programmes…
Typical is Fox 5 News, an affiliate of Rupert Murdoch’s Fox television network in Las Vegas. Two cups of [iced] coffee, their cubes of ice glinting under the studio lights, now daily stand before the channel’s morning presenters. The presenters conspicuously do not drink from the cups, which is just as well — the cups contain a bogus fluid and fake ice to prevent the cubes melting.
Video: In 1969 two Australians living in London bought a lion from Harrods department store and raised it as their pet. When the animal became too large conservationists convinced the pair the lion should be rehabilitated into the wild. This is their reunion after a year apart. Read more here. Sappy and terrifiying at the same time…
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Cool video the message at the end made me barf.
July 24th, 2008 at 8:36 am
bloody hippies
July 24th, 2008 at 9:38 am
The lion video was glorious and heart wrenching.There is no doubt the lion remembered them and the kindness they gave him. Really tear jerking!
July 24th, 2008 at 9:44 am
This is lovely but does anyone think that it is bloody strange that you could buy a LION at Harrods? Gourmet food hampers YES Overpriced panti-hose YES Lion cub NO!
July 24th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Shh! Keep it secret! Or it’ll be the next Telecom ad. “Friends + Lion = international roaming” or something…
July 24th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Whichever patronising twat told these people the lion wouldn’t recognise them was obviously unaware that animals use their sense of smell to recognise almost everything.
July 24th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
As for that bunch of Hitler-surname twaddle, his real name was Schickelgruber so who would change their name to Hitler so they could then change it again to assume another identity? WTF??
But Schickelgruber /schekel-grabber, now that’s a whole other can of gefilte fish …
now how could Telecom use that story in an ad?
August 4th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
im famous and i think its sweet i got it sent to me by my friend wen i first saw it i cryed i no famous girl crying its not cool.
everyone cry’s. im 15 and i still cry.
i hope that all you peple cry too.everyone i no still cry’s.famous people too.i in america but my friend e-mailed it to me from australia.
i think its pretty sweet what they did to raise a lion.
i hope people take time to read this because i listen to people all the time.
cya all