According to this AP story, redneck crooner, Gretchen Wilson, has received some unwelcome mail from Tennessee's attorney general. The state attorney general wants the country singer who made the song "Redneck Woman" a hit to stop "glamorizing" the use of smokeless tobacco at her concerts. State officials said Gretchen Wilson can be seen on concert jumbo screens pulling a can of Skoal from her pocket while performing …
Browser Woes
Random Culture points out that MTV has love for Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Much to my surprise, when I tried to visit the MTV Overdrive section of the site, I received an error that said, "PC users with Netscape, Mozilla or Firefox: you need to run Internet Explorer to use MTV Overdrive." The biggest problem I have with this is that MTV is supposed to be on the cutting edge of culture, right? And this is …
Volvo Works It’s Safety Positioning
Washington Times: The Swedish unit of U.S. carmaker Ford Motor Co. is experimenting with a built-in breathalyzer and speed governor to reduce road accidents. The breathalyzer is part of the seat belt mechanism, and before the car will start, the driver must blow below .08 percent or less with the belt buckled. All 50 U.S. states have adopted .08 as the legal limit, while in Sweden, the legal limit is .02, or the …
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Katrina And The Waves
OK...I just love how bizarre news coverage of storms can get. Yesterday, someone in the French Quarter dropped the F-bomb on Shepard Smith, live on FOX. See it here. Shep: "Why are you still here?" Man: "None of your f--kin' business." Shep: "Well, that was a good answer, wasn't it?...I'm watching two dogs drink out of a glass of ice water, and it's none of my business why they are still here." …
Greed Kills
New York Times: Two and a half years after the music business lined up behind the chief executive of Apple, Steven P. Jobs, and hailed him and his iTunes music service for breathing life into music sales, the industry's allegiance to Mr. Jobs has eroded sharply. Mr. Jobs is now girding for a showdown with at least two of the four major record companies over the price of songs on the iTunes service. If he loses, the …
Not To Be Confused With MSN’s Spaces
New York Times: Created in the fall of 2003 as a looser, music-driven version of www.friendster.com, MySpace quickly caught on with millions of teenagers and young adults as a place to maintain their home pages, which they often decorate with garish artwork, intimate snapshots and blogs filled with frank and often ribald commentary on their lives, all linked to the home pages of friends. Although many people over 30 …
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Checking A Brand’s Digital Health
Clickz: Marsteller has rolled out a "Digital Check-up" service for clients, providing a snapshot of their efforts and positioning in the consumer-generated media space. The service starts with Marsteller's own Digital Check-up, which provides a report card detailing what kind of a presence the client has in various online efforts and consumer-generated media. Assessment areas include corporate Web site audits, blog …
Mothers, Don’t Let Your Sons Grow Up To Be Cowboys
Halley Suitt is not lovin' the Army's pitch. Given that she has a son, it's perfectly understandable. Sometimes while watching the evening news on TV, I have to grab my head on both sides, and start screaming, because the things they say are so HORRIFYING, I think the evening news is being penned by Stephen King. Yes, the evening news is Carrie or something. Like tonight, they report that the military recruiting …
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