Saturday, June 16, 2012

Shell Proves It Knows Nothing About Social Media. Hmm...



Shell really are pricks. Or at least that's what the bright minds at Greenpeace will have us all think. It's all part of a brilliantly-conceived, but fake ad campaign they're running against the giant polluter's, I mean, oil company's drilling escapades in the ever-depleting Arctic. Greenpeace recreated an exact replica of the Shell website and filled it with all kinds of eyebrow-raising info about how much Shell hates icebergs. They even made a game for kids to play called Angry Bergs, where, you guessed it, you destroy icebergs to make way for oil rigs. Best of all, there's an ad generator page that lets you download a beautiful national geographic-type pic of the Arctic and add your own anti-Arctic headline to it if you like. You can then send it across the webisphere as if it's an ad from Shell themselves. Nice idea. Pity they broke with the gag only a few days into it. Would have been nice to have the "illusion" last a bit longer. I'd rather those pricks at Shell have the meltdown, if you catch my drift.   

Jack McBrayer & Triumph The Insult Comic Dog Visit The Rudest Restaurant On Earth. Hmm...

 While on his visit to Chicago, Conan O' Brien wanted to know more about The Wiener’s Circle, a restaurant famous for four things: its signature Chicago-style hot dogs, hamburgers, cheese fries and the mutually accepted verbal abuse between the employees and the customers during the late-weekend hours. So, of course, he sent the most polite and nice person he knows, Jack McBrayer (of 30 Rock) and the worst "person" he knows, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog to test the restaurant's mettle. Enjoy!  

Quick Recap Of Every Breaking Bad Season. Hmm...

One month to go till the return of Walter White and the hell that follows him. Best we get a refresher course, yeah? Yeah.