Until recently, I thought that Etsy was just a place to buy handmade jewelry and craft supplies. Not true, dear reader. Etsy also sells all kinds of small-batch treats that you can actually eat – and boy, do they look good. Take a peek at the top 10 items I found: 1. Chocolate Fudge 2. [...]

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I stumbled across Yelp several years ago when looking up a restaurant’s address.  It seemed interesting enough; a cloying aggregator that collects people’s instant opinions to form an overall one-four star rating system.  However, like most things on the internet, reading the actual reviews by customers made me wonder how reliable this service actually is. [...]

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While the US economy seems to be on the rebound, many folks are still trying to make their dollars go as far as they can.  How do I know this?  Because that is the only reasonable explanation why people continue to take junk food and turn it into something they call “fancy.”  As first chronicled [...]

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Last Monday, KFC introduced their new Kentucky Grilled Chicken. Today, they’re looking for the opportunity to try and hook those of us who haven’t tried it yet by giving a piece of it away for free at all KFC locations. How do I know they are doing this? Because their hip new website, UnThinkKFC says [...]

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Seriously ESPN? You’re putting up a column about a “bracket” to determine the best meat a full WEEK after So Good launched Meat Madness? Now look, I’m not claiming to be the first person in the world to come up with the idea of a bracket to determine which is the best of certain kinds [...]

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Back in May, I noted that Burger King had begun selling the Angry Whopper in Europe and questioned when we in America would get access to this delicious sounding burger.  The answer: it has arrived. As of January 5, 2009, you can now buy the Angry Whopper at Burger King until March 30.  So what [...]

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My company, New Media Strategies  has teamed up with orange juice titan Tropicana to create a Twitter-focused data visualization tool that we’re calling Fresh Squeezed Election Tweets. You can check it out at An Orange America. The site is collecting and live-aggregating tweets using the words “Obama” and “McCain” and other words that appear frequently [...]

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Mountain Dew sent me the “DEWmocracy” sample packs that they’ve been giving to bloggers for review (read a good early review here) so late last week I broke it out the three pack they sent me, and decided to give the sodas a try. They have created three new soda flavors, and in the true [...]

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For those of you unfamiliar with the “Cell Phone Popcorn” videos, a little over a week ago, someone uploaded a clip of four young people speaking French Japanese who pointed four phones at some kernels of popcorn, called them simultaneously, and caused the popcorn to pop. Here is the first video posted for those of [...]

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A former co-worker of mine is currently running a cool website and free daily e-mail newsletter called BeThree a daily guide for your body, mind and soul. The site’s approach to life is: “We believe in spicy modern living and embracing all of its quirky nuances. We know eating well and living actively are essential, [...]

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