Finally, after 24 long, arduous years, Coca-Cola is removing the word “classic” from the name of its flagship product. Our long national New Coke nightmare is officially over.
link: Consumerist
Monthly Archives: January 2009
ROLcats
Alternative Super Bowl logos
Some of these alternative Super Bowl logos from the New York Times are pretty weak, but this one is pretty inspired. Simple geometry, Helvetica, and a design inspired by Venn Diagrams… I love it.
Duh of the Day
Babies Know: A Little Dirt Is Good for You.
Children raised in an ultraclean environment,” he added, “are not being exposed to organisms that help them develop appropriate immune regulatory circuits.
Huh, you don’t say.
Dr. Weinstock goes even further. “Children should be allowed to go barefoot in the dirt, play in the dirt, and not have to wash their hands when they come in to eat,” he said. He and Dr. Elliott pointed out that children who grow up on farms and are frequently exposed to worms and other organisms from farm animals are much less likely to develop allergies and autoimmune diseases.
via kottke.
Fury.
Dear City of Boston,
Fucking fuck you.
Love,
Tape.
No correlation, I’m sure.
I saw this article describing that Mississippi had the highest teen birth rate (per capita of teen women) for 2006 (the most recent state-by-state data available), and I thought to myself, “I’d bet that Mississippi was also the worst-ranked state in education.”
I discounted the District of Columbia from those rankings because it’s not a state and will actually probably always come in last because it’s a city. It is interesting to note that the state that Mississippi supplanted as the “leader” in teen birth rate rankings was the second-worst in education.
On the other end of the scale, Massachusetts ranked first in education and last in teen birth rate, despite the efforts of those in Gloucester, and New Hampshire was second-to-last in teen birth rate and third in education.
Street No-Sweeping
Dear Boston.com’s BostonSweeper,
You know that there’s no street sweeping from December 1 to March 31, right? So why are you emailing me in January?
Love,
Tape
Mexican Pepsi IFYL
Dear Pepsi,
Instead of suing your distributors who are distributing “Mexican Pepsi” (i.e. made with real sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup) in the U.S., maybe you just make it in the U.S. and sell it? Maybe they’re importing it because people want to buy it and drink it because it tastes better, is better (marginally, I understand it’s soda pop we’re talking about) for you, and would actually end up being better for the economy and environment as a whole since you wouldn’t be using corn?
Think about it.
Love,
Tape
Dear Danny Ainge,
What the fuckity fuck fuck fuckity fuck are you THINKING? Stephon MARBURY? The grandest douchehole in NBA history?
I know you put together a championship team last season, but are you fucking kidding? If you pull the trigger on this I will personally drive to your house and paint the exterior walls with bacon fat.