Microsoft Popups
Wendy McElroy wonders if the reason Internet Explorer does not block popup ads is because MSN charges for this service.
Wendy McElroy wonders if the reason Internet Explorer does not block popup ads is because MSN charges for this service.
Jim Henley alerts us to someone trying to scam info from Paypal users. Beware and do not respond to these types of phishing spam.
Similar attempts imitating Citibank and Bank of America are also making the rounds right now.
You may have seen calendars of a more or less naughty variety hanging on the wall of your mechanic’s office or work area. Well, maybe not as these somewhat naughty ones may have been an artifact of the days when every service station had mechanics working in their garage.
The corporate mission of Pirelli is:
Pirelli’s business is centered on the key markets of Tyres, Energy Cables and Systems, Telecom Cables and Systems and Real Estate, in which we are among the world leaders and innovators.
You probably know them best from their “tyre” business. They have a marketing calendar.
And their 2004 calendar is not The Thing to all:
I must be getting old. There�s no way I would even bother to hang the latest Pirelli calender in my workshop.
Allan shares their September 2004 (NWF) picture as an example.
Looking at the calendars (there are a few years of back issues at the Pirelli site) makes me think that either Italian mechanics/cable layers have slightly different aesthetic bents then their US/Australian counterparts or Pirelli is targeting a different audience.
I think the calendar is pretty neat and while I couldn’t hang it in my work office I’d certainly consider hanging it in my home office.
These are both funny and a sign of the times:
A five-inch fishing lure which sports three steel hooks and cautions users that it is, “Harmful if swallowed,” has been identified as one of the nation’s wackiest warning labels in an annual contest sponsored by a consumer watchdog group.
Go read the rest.
Via second place winner Alex Tabarrok.
I guess it is possible to have some trends pass you by if you are not watching closely.
And I have apparently missed out on stripper chic:
Of course, for many girls who buy it, stripper-inspired fare isn’t actually about disrobing in public or even having sex but about cultivating what writer and sexpert Susie Bright calls “the essence of titillation,” a coy yet brazen, look-but-don’t-touch sexual persona.
I guess mostly because I haven’t done any of these things:
Teenagers of the new millennium have grown up watching college students give lap dances on MTV’s The Real World; they’ve listened to Christina Aguilera’s album Stripped; they’ve taken cardio strip class at the gym, perused the mall for thongs and flavored body glitter, played video games that feature strippers on their Xboxes and GameCubes, and watched endless music videos for which strip clubs and the denizens thereof provide the mise en sc�ne.
Alison Pollet and Page Hurwitz detail many aspects of the marketing of stripper chic goodies to teens and preteens.
What message is your junior high daughter sending with her latest outfit?