Holiday Chocolate Oranges

I may have finally found a slight exception to the rule that chocolate is the one product that isn’t advertised with paradise, even though it’s usually grown there: holiday chocolate oranges.

It’s only a "slight" exception in that you don’t really think about about the traditional chocolate orange that appears in the run up to Christmas [...]

How not to package toys ~ Dora the Explorer Piñata

Go, Dora, the young explorer girl who teaches kids about travel, adventure, and problem solving.  Stop Wal-Mart and other retailers from displaying her in a prominent location in a plastic bag like a restrained and suffocating child:

Whether this toy was made in a humane environment or not, nothing says sweatshop like the image of a [...]

Hawaiian Airlines charges ‘death fee’

There is nothing more certain in life than death, taxes, and airline fees.  And now Hawaiian Airlines is being criticized in an article by David Lazarus at the LA Times, which is worth a read for more details.  Apparently, after her traveling companion died, a woman was charged a fee of $75 to cancel each [...]

MGM Grand Paradise Macau

You spend over a billion dollars on a casino resort in one of the most expensive places on earth and you call it "Paradise."  Yawn.  The MGM Grand Paradise in Macau (美高梅金殿澳門) opened its doors on December 18th and 10:50 PM Macau time.

True, it’s a beautiful building and a powerhouse of a partnership, but there [...]

Wachovia ~ or surf over ya

If you thought that the Pepsi Dare for More campaign was great, then you’ll love this new little banner ad from Wachovia in Los Angeles:

It’s an animated Flash ad that I pulled out the boundaries on so that you could see the little animated surfers sitting off the stage after floating by to form [...]

Bank of America: Come back please ~ to the beach

Bank of America finally sent out apology letters to people who were booted off of their auto-pay system and charged fees and higher interest rates.  They said they would correct the situation.
Too bad they already lost a ton of customers.  Well, they’re still trying to win us back with more futile beach advertising, not unlike [...]

Donald Trump’s multi-billion-dollar golf course resort rejected

If you were wondering the fate of the Donald Trump seaside golf course after the post on one man who was holding out, well, wait no longer.  The plans for the $2 billion resort have been nixed by the planning agency according to the Telegraph.  It’s strange, too, since Scotland is culturally one place where [...]

BusinessWeek: Harley-Davidson idles 5,400 workers

Production of the ultimate American escape machine is getting scaled back, as Harley Davidson is taking over 5,000 workers off the assembly lines for a period of time.  Here’s the article: "Harley-Davidson idles 5,400 workers."  Luckily, in Pennsylvania, this corresponds with the deer-hunting season.

Worst ad of 2007 ~ the guy pretending to hold on to the invisible hand that he pushed over the cliff

Here’s a sendoff into the weekend.  What?  You didn’t hear?  The year is over.  The worst ad (with the worst timing) of the year is in.  Check out this guy:

Did they forget that the world’s largest country is still communist and has stopped buying our debt to prop up our currency?  Did they also forget [...]

Palm Tree 1 Lighthouse 0 ~ Citi Cards

Citi refuses to leave the coasts with their advertising. They must have spent some time at the Earl Cunningham exhibit at the Smithsonian to come up with this ad (click to enlarge):

Yes, that’s a palm tree that has supposedly been transported from Florida to Maine. I know that these stories are embellished to [...]

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