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Entries Tagged as 'Corporate Greed'

Hey guess what? I’m rich!

June 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Seriously, I am. I just got a letter from Barclays Bank stating I may/or may not be related to someone who died in an air crash. I’m in stiches over this letter. It beggars belief that anyone will fall for this, but inevitably someone will. Not only is it ludicrously ungrammatical, it is just plain [...]

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Tags: Corporate Greed · Curiosities · Day in the Life · Illiterate · Rants · Silly Moments · Utter Stupidity

Facebook looses face - time for guerilla action

December 7th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Facebook has a big plate of eggs on its face after it came to light about their Beacon information collection. It has highlighted the current information gathering frenzy going on in the Internet.
It seems to be the vogue to collect streams of data and then claim it is part of a “technical checking process” as [...]

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Tags: Catpaw's Mad · Corporate Greed · Dubious Marketing · Evils of Advertising · Internet · Rants

The good corporate citizen - antidote to unending greed

October 13th, 2007 · No Comments

City Hall was set to close the rinks - all of them - to cut costs. Not once did the greed hounds of public office look to their own perks and budgets to cut costs.

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Tags: Corporate Greed · Good Citizen · Good Corporate Citizen · Politics · Rants · Toronto

Ridiculous body images mean huge bank accounts

October 10th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Dove soap has a new video out - a frightening and illuminating short that is the perfect companion piece to their earlier work, evolution.
The new video is a blitz on the senses, travelling at high speed through all the artificial images of beauty, society is assaulted with on a daily basis. In many ways, the [...]

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Tags: Catpaw's Mad · Celebrity · Corporate Greed · Dove · Dubious Marketing · Evils of Advertising · Fashion industry · Rants