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May 28th, 2008

Terror Scarf

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or email alerts. Thanks for visiting!Only the right wingers see terror alerts in an ad for American coffee. The fashion police, literally.

Patrix | Posted In Ads, Asides | Tagged Comments 2 Comments »

May 13th, 2008

Customizing Viewing Ads

Since I’ve been fiddling around at the backend of this blog in midst of revamping the look, I managed to clean up my plugins directory. Although WordPress by itself is a robust blogging engine,the availability of plugins helps enhance the experience and extend its capabilities. One of the plugins that I installed is PlanetOz’s Who [...]

Patrix | Posted In Ads, Weblogs | Tagged Comments 4 Comments »

May 3rd, 2008

Offensive Sunglasses

Is this ad offensive? The Italian-based the Institute for Advertising Self-Discipline (really?) apparently thinks so. I don’t get it. Is it the choice of the finger or the woman’s expression or just evocative of a man’s (other) appendage entering a woman’s (other) orifice?

Patrix | Posted In Ads, Asides, Images and Photography | Tagged Comments 3 Comments »

February 18th, 2008

Hatichya Marie

I love this Marie ad in Marathi [hat tip: Sampada]. It has a distinct Marathi flavor, complete with one of our favorite exclamations - hatichya maari (a kinda damn it!) What’s more, Shah Rukh Khan is now spreading his endorsement tentacles in the regional markets as well. Poor Ashok Saraf! Who’ll pay attention to his [...]

Patrix | Posted In Ads, India, Videos | Tagged Comments 2 Comments »

January 17th, 2008

A New Year Hungama

Seen outside a hotel next to the one we were staying at. No reports yet on any women molested outside this hotel. But so many conflicting messages especially the one that says - Tease your Hubby - simply boggle the mind. Feel free to add your comments. We were mostly speechless.

Patrix | Posted In Ads, Fun Weird, Images and Photography, India | Tagged Comments 4 Comments »

December 1st, 2007

U.S. Army Recruitment Brochure

I received this U.S. Army recruitment brochure today in the mail. Probably it is an indication of the Army not able to meet its recruitment goals that they are going the Bed, Bath, and Beyond way by junk-mailing people. At least I am more likely to shop at BB&B than join the U.S. Army. Of [...]

Patrix | Posted In Ads, United States | Tagged Comments 11 Comments »

October 31st, 2007

Stealing Thy Neighbor

What do you do when your tourism numbers are in a steady fall, thanks to your not-so-friendly image around the world? Make a promotional video, of course. Remember the Incredible India campaign? Well, the United States never had a problem earlier attracting tourists as everyone wanted a piece of her. But as Guiliani likes to [...]

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August 21st, 2007

Google puts Parrot fortune teller out of business?

Since Patrix is on a break, Abhishek & I have been asked to keep the blog alive. I am a social geek (apart from being P’s brother) and will be writing about technology that affects each one of us. So please don’t expect any VLSI chip design post from me.
IndiCast receives a lot of visitors [...]

Aditya | Posted In Ads, Fun Weird, India, Technology, Weblogs | Tagged Comments Comments Off

July 3rd, 2007

Blue Skies

This wonderful picture captured by Twilight Fairy reminded me of the song I last heard on the GE commercial (I think). Thanks to my awful memory, I couldn’t recall anything apart from Blue Skies but thanks to Google, the complete lyrics could be unearthed. Incidentally the song was the most popular one in 1929 especially [...]

Patrix | Posted In Ads, Music | Tagged Comments 5 Comments »

June 23rd, 2007

User Interaction with Billboards

In an age where traditional media is desperate to hold on to old modes of communication with its readers, it is refreshing to see the Beeb doing something different. In these latest ads posted around New York, they display user votes on current controversial topics. You can send in your vote either through your [...]

Patrix | Posted In Ads, Media, Technology | Tagged Comments 2 Comments »

June 13th, 2007

Ask the Algorithm

I bet many of us have seen the Ask.com commercials touting the Algorithm. When I first saw the commercials, I instantly thought to myself that they are trying to emulate Google; not in terms of ousting them from the top of the search engine market but instead by focusing on the quality of searches.
Google’s now [...]

Patrix | Posted In Ads, Technology, World Wide Web | Tagged Comments 4 Comments »

May 23rd, 2007

Even a caveman could do it

Television networks nowadays are constantly exploring new avenues to find their next hit. In the flood of the reality-television programs, the sitcome unfortunately is largely ignored and with the exception of Two and Half Men, I can’t think of a single sitcom on all network channels that is a serious contender for the ratings. All-time [...]

Patrix | Posted In Ads, Television | Tagged Comments Comments Off

April 14th, 2007

Google buys DoubleClick for $3.1 billion

Google outbid Microsoft to acquire Doubleclick, an online advertisement firm for $3.1 billion. It is seen as a way to expand into the advertisement industry.

Patrix | Posted In Ads, Business, World Wide Web | Tagged Comments 5 Comments »

March 21st, 2007

Blood Coasters

[source: Scary Ideas via Boing Boing]
“The coasters were printed using a special invisible red ink, which spreads only when moistened. The Mumbai Traffic Police placed at tables and bar counters in Mumbai’s prominent bars. When a customer places their moist glass of alcohol on it, the red ink starts spreading and the face starts to [...]

Patrix | Posted In Ads, Food Drink, India | Tagged Comments 6 Comments »

March 4th, 2007

Why feed-reading users are important

Admittedly, I was one of them who considered visits to your websites as preferable as compared to reading off a feed reader. But the number of websites and blogs with great content has exploded and there are far too many to keep track of. RSS (Real Simple Syndication) feed readers, online or otherwise saved a [...]

Patrix | Posted In Ads, Weblogs | Tagged Comments 7 Comments »

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