Month: November 2008
Menu madness
There are times that I really lament that theLogBook.com’s main menu isn’t is much fun or topical as this week’s is – go check it out, I had a chuckle putting it together and dropping in a few in-jokes that nobody’ll ever spot. Some time back, I gave serious thought to trying to do more stuff like the strip of topically relevant episodes at the bottom, to make use of the site’s overabundance of stuff, but I can see where that’d backfire plenty fast if the major news of a given week was bad news.
Still, I wish all of the menus had a “hook” like this one does. I’m happy with it. 😛 … Read more
Insidious advertising
I saw this the other night and instantly thought it was more insidious than any campaign spot I’ve seen this year – and that’s saying something.
A big part of my diet this year has been kicking the high fructose corn syrup right off the menu. I have no doubt that it’s a big part of why I’ve dropped as much weight as I have. But this commercial is just off-the-scale insidious: because this guy can’t think of anything wrong with it, it is therefore by definition just hunky-dory? You know, I probably couldn’t, on absolutely no notice, cough up detailed studies about why smoking is bad for you from memory, or instantly recall a full list of the side-effects of taking heroin. This doesn’t mean, however, that these things are “just fine in moderation.”
Sometimes I think all the Cold War psych ops types moved to Madison Avenue when there was no more Soviet Union to topple.… Read more
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