Entries from February 2009

Friday, February 27th, 2009

what you could do if you were tropicana

In case you happen to have missed it, Tropicana changed the design on their cartons last month, and in the process discovered that “Some Buyers Are Passionate About Packaging,” as Stuart Elliott writes in the New York Times: PepsiCo is bowing to public demand and scrapping the changes made to a flagship product, Tropicana Pure [...]

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Google bless you!

Just a quick post to let you know our new Google overlords must have officially arrived, according to this ad: Taking over from the exiting party which has heretofore been responsible for bestowing the bless-age, and to whom all unanswered questions had previously been directed, the new ephemeral, universal, entity that apparently has $5,000-a-month jobs [...]

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

stargate costumes, and russian hats

NOTE: These two items are actually unrelated, I just figured I’d kill two fashion birds with one post. Stargate Outfits: Watching Hulu’s recommended shows scroll by, it suddenly dawned on me that the outfits that the cast of Startgate: Atlantis are wearing in the promo shot look incredibly familiar: Particularly the leather jacket, second from [...]