Joe Camel campaign

Joe Camel was the brilliantly successful advertising campaign used to market Camel Cigarettes manufactured by RJ Reynolds. The Campaign began in 1987 and was unfortunately stopped in 1997. For the first time this cigarette mascot was introduced by a British artist Nicholas...

Celebrity jogging: LA's latest fitness craze

Dressing up in spandex and jogging around celebrity haunts with your mobile phone poised to 'pap' (take photos of) any celebrity that passes by. This is an alternative to the bus tour of celebrity houses I guess but...

Fashion pirates find gold in stylish fakes

To good to be true... only for people who want to look "haute couture" " When stylish, metropolitan women stroll along with a Louis Vuitton Pleaty bag, they exude an air of high class, impeccable taste and...

Viewzi Visual Search Engine come online

Viewzi is a new visual search engine that attempts to deliver a fun and interactive way to find online content. Recently out of beta (although the Web site still displays the beta tag), Viewzi focuses on the user experience by offering different "views" to organize the...

al-Qaeda 'Perfect witness' for Crown

OpinonBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCertainly in the world of Terrorism, you can be rest assured when caught, al-Qaeda Terrorists will "Squeal Like Little Piggies" to help themselves by cutting a deal with...

Canada's Khawaja key to U.K. terror plot: Crown

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorWell that is certainly interesting, our Canadian Terrorist was a Foreign Affairs employee privy to the going and comings on of hotspots around the world and used his...

Food Nostalgia costs $10 with 'Caprice des Dieux'... Say Cheese!

While food shopping this afternoon, I have to admit that I had a bit of a sticker shock after I noticed Caprice des Dieux (Caprice of the Gods) in the Cheese Display.I felt a pang of nostalgia as it was one of my mother's picks when I was growing up in France.That was until I...

Ghoulish Courtney Love reveals her skeletal frame in a see-through 1920s dress

Reports that Courtney love is suicidal over loss of Kurt Cobain's ashes are compounded by her recent appearance in LA where she looks incredibly frail. Her mouth is still working though as his her abilty to work the...

Coming Soon to NYC: Topshop Fall 2008 Collection

"""As previously reported, Topshop will open their doors to NYC fashionistas later in October. While we count days to the biggest Downtown fashion event of the year (not to count Kira Plastinina much hyped Soho...

Akihabara rampage foretold but lost among myriad messages on Internet site

" TOKYO — To most of Japan, the deadly stabbings in Tokyo were an incomprehensible act of sudden and indiscriminate violence.But to readers of an obscure website called “Extreme Exchange, Revised,” the...

Women think of shopping as much as men think about sex

" Three out of four young women think about shopping nearly as often as men think about sex, it is claimed. Thoughts of buying that new dress or a much sought-after pair of shoes pop into their heads every 60...

Shopping Becomes A Dangerous Activity in The UK

Tony Virasami, 37, from Catford, southeast London appeared in court in London today accused of murdering a 57-year-old father following a row over queue-jumping at a supermarket. Kevin Tripp, 57, was punched to...

GRUBBY LITTLE PAUL BURRELL TO FLOG DIANA DIAMONDS IN UNITED STATES

"Grubby little Paul Burrell who once style himself “Diana's Rock” will again profit from her memory by flogging gems on US shopping TV to unwitting Americans. Sadly our cousins across the pond simply have not yet...

Japan police probe stab 'warning'

Japanese Police have started investigating Tomohiro Kato, a factory employee from Shizuoka prefecture, stabbing spree. Sleuths are also looking into the allegation that several messages sent by mobile phone to a website that appeared to foretell the...

Time to retire conspicuous consumption asks Rob Walker on Change This?

Instead of parading logos around town and buying brands to affirm our place in the world or should I say our status, has time come to retire conspicuous consumption and wear our Invisible Badge asks Rob Walker in the current edition of Change This.Rather than jump on the...

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