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Photo of all the Dr. Pepper knockoffs

Read Photo of all the Dr. Pepper knockoffs (Boing Boing)
Spotted doing the viral rounds and unattributed (though watermarked with a URL that redirects to Elbe Spurling's website) this wall of Dr. Pepper knockoffs is a magnificent lesson in branding magic and semiotics and all that fancy jazz.
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Burger King’s new ad forces Google Home to advertise the Whopper | The Verge

Read Burger King’s new ad forces Google Home to advertise the Whopper by Jacob Kastrenakes (The Verge)
Burger King is unveiling a horrible, genius, infuriating, hilarious, and maybe very poorly thought-out ad today that’s designed to intentionally set off Google Homes and Android phones.
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Le Cinq, Paris: restaurant review | The Guardian

Read Le Cinq, Paris: restaurant review by Jay Rayner (The Guardian)
It was supposed to be a joyous trip to one of France’s famous gastro palaces – what could possibly go wrong?
You’d almost think this reviewer was going out of his way to be as delightfully brutal as he possibly could be…

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