Matt B. Simon

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Date registered: April 19, 2009

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  1. When you drink Pepsi, you are drinking a magnetic field — February 10, 2009
  2. That’ll be enough personalized Obama-style posters for now — February 4, 2009
  3. The cultural conundrum that is the Puppy Bowl — February 2, 2009
  4. Communism, so hot right now — January 31, 2009

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When you drink Pepsi, you are drinking a magnetic field

I used to work in PR, so I know my way around a ridiculous statement. But if this leaked PDF from the brand marketers for Pepsi is in fact real, then I need to get back into the industry to try to top its ostentatiousness. I recommend reading all 27 pages of it (there’s a …

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That’ll be enough personalized Obama-style posters for now

In what is becoming yet another reason to hate Facebook, somewhere around 85% of users have now stylized photos of themselves to look like Shepard Fairey’s Obama poster. It can be done through one of many online generators, but it should probably not be done. Ethel, hero of the 1998 Icelandic Revolution If you are …

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The cultural conundrum that is the Puppy Bowl

The 2008 Kitty Half-Time Show From time to time I see something so mind-boggling I wonder if I have accidentally ingested a hallucinogenic. Or someone has slipped something into my drink. It happened last night when I witnessed my first Puppy Bowl (appropriately sponsored by Glade and Bissell), broadcast on Animal Planet during the Super …

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Communism, so hot right now

Karl Marx, moments before pulling out a pistol and overthrowing the photographer In trying economic times, citizens of the world have traditionally turned to two things, manga and communism. This is well-noted by many prominent economists. Now these two remedies come in one convenient package: Das Kapital, by the famously bushy Karl Marx, in a …

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