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Entries Tagged as 'Dubious Marketing'

Wheeeeeee I’m going to live forever!

June 16th, 2008 · 4 Comments

I’ll be able to laugh at all the saggy, baggy tattooed and pierced seniors for a long, long time. Guess why? Coffee is good for me:
Drinking copious amounts of coffee is not harmful to your health, … protect you from heart disease, new research suggests. [http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/06/16/coffee-habitsstudy.html?ref=rss]
Guess I’ll just double my morning latte. Hey what the [...]

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Tags: Day in the Life · Dubious Marketing · Food · Weird News

“I can shape anyone’s body into a teeny-tiny dancer type”

May 1st, 2008 · 9 Comments

“My formula works on everyone as long as they’re consistent. I can shape anyone’s body into a teeny-tiny dancer type.”
…thus spake professional trainer to the stars Tracey Anderson.
I have one question for Ms Anderson - are you out of your mind? I really, really wanted to use the term teeny-tiny mind, but that’s just [...]

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Tags: Catpaw's Mad · Celebrity · Dubious Marketing · Fashion industry · Rants · Utter Stupidity

I beg your pardon - Miss Bimbo? MISS BIMBO???

April 1st, 2008 · 5 Comments

What the hell is going on out there? I just stumbled across a noxious website that is claiming to be an online “girl games for girls”. It’s called Miss Bimbo. Yes you read that correctly - Miss Bimbo a virtual fashion game.
I don’t even need to go any further to understand what is going on [...]

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Tags: Catpaw's Mad · Dubious Marketing · Fashion industry · Rants · 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