Starbucks retracts their free iced coffee offer

Today Starbucks withdrew their offer for free iced coffee. The offer was ridiculously generous:
“Stop by your neighborhood Starbucks Coffee between noon and 9 pm for a complimentary iced grande beverage. One Grande beverage per person per visit with this email. Please print and present this email to your Starbucks Barista…Expires September 30, [...]

Snakes on a Plane – personalized message

OK, this might be the coolest marketing idea ever. It’s a personalized message about the upcoming Snakes on a Plane movie in the voice of Samuel Jackson. It will actually dial the phone number of the recipient and he will address them by their name, mention their job, how they look, what kind [...]

Scary Technorati graph

Here’s a scary graph on Technorati. This shows a huge increase in blog
posts mentioning “World War III“.

Battle on Wikipedia over Marina Girl definition

A couple of months ago, I posted something about a couple of funny definitions of the Marina Girl and Marina Guy on Wikipedia. Well, I was trying to show this to someone today and I saw that someone has taken the liberty of deleting the definitions. I checked out the Wikipedia change log [...]