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 is [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, but [...]

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The California Milk Processor Board has a new internet heavy marketing campaign that features a band called White Gold. The brain child of Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, White Gold, like any modern band, has a MySpace page, Facebook group and a website.

However, unlike most modern bands, White Gold features a hilariously self-absorbed front man who [...]

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Jones Soda company has decided to put a lolcat image on one of their Jones Soda bottles and have joined forces with the website i can has cheezburger.  The site has set up a contest where users can submit their lolz, and visitors to the site can rate them.  The Top 5 rated lolz will [...]

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Three weeks ago, I wrote about the trippy new Orange Underground website and advertising campaign on behalf of Cheetos. The site and the blog are both pretty well designed, and the idea behind the campaign is unique and intricate. Goodby Silverstein, the agency behind the Orange Underground campaign clearly put a lot of time and [...]

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Trouble With Toast is organizing a DC food blogger pot-luck.
Heat, Eat, Review posts a video review of Kids Cuisine Deep Sea Adventure Fish Sticks.
Manny & Olga’s will offer heart shaped pizza’s on Valentine’s Day.
An episode of Dinner Impossible was filmed at the DC Improv on Thursday.
Kotaku reviews 13 different energy drinks.
Eating Our Words has the [...]

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Pickle Sickle, Pickle Pop, Pickle in a tube. Whatever you want to call it, this is no doubt an interesting product that the folks at Bob’s Pickle Pops are selling.

So what is a pickle sickle? Dill pickles are pressed to extract as much of their juice as possible, then that juice is put in a [...]

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I wanted to let everyone know about a new site I discovered recently called Cooking By Numbers. The site has an easy to use and simplistic layout that lets you select what ingredients you currently have available in either your fridge or cupboard. A simple click of the button, and you’re presented with a list [...]

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Kettle Foods, the makers of many delicious chips, announced today the winner of their latest consumer vote to pick a new Kettle Chip flavor. This was the “Fire & Spice” match-up. The four other finalists, Jalapeno Salsa Fresca, Mango Chili, Wicked Hot Sauce and Orange Ginger Wasabi lost out to Death Valley Chipotle:

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Wednesday, January 9th marked the one-month anniversary of the launch of the Whopper Freakout campaign. The thousands of people who have visited So Good in order to watch the full-length Whopper Freakout video know that I am a fan of the campaign, having called it “brilliant” and “genius.” But how successful has it actually [...]

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That’s the cumulative total of free rice that will have been raised by the end of today, thanks to the website FreeRice. The site launched in October, is run by 49 year-old computer programmer John Breen, and is the sister site of poverty.com. They have a word game on the site, and for each [...]

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Ever heard of Fakelaugh.com? Neither had anyone else in the world until supermarket chain A&P got all hot and bothered by a rap video filmed by two college kids.
I first read this story on White Trash BBQ and got quite a kick out of it. Apparently two brothers in New Jersey who worked at [...]

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Check out Free Chicken and Coke.

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