Jill Murray
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What I imagine is going through Ron Sexmith’s toussled head every time I see these posters:
“Mehrrr… I hate having a music career that pays me to be in ads. I don’t like having my pitcure taken… why do I have to do this? Stop looking at me! It’s not ABOUT this. It’s about [...]
Continue Reading →It’s still CO2 to me.
Have you seen these hilarious “It’s called life” commercials from the Competitive Enterprise Institute?
Apparently, carbon dioxide is a good thing now, so don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Join the fight to save carbon dioxide.
Continue Reading →As far as I can tell, this saga implies that if Rogers ever had any ideas, they have now officially run out.
It all started when Bell started running rather endearing pixel art animation ads that people actually liked. Then Bell released the ad affectionately known as Cheetah, which only aired a few [...]
Continue Reading →Sex sells. Or it can just be creepy.
This is so awesome. I have totally always wanted web sites to entirely hijack the user experience. I love not being able to turn off sound and it really helps me read at my own pace and determine for myself what’s interesting about a [...]
Continue Reading →OK, so this isn’t actually a real product. But wouldn’t it be awesome if it was? It would be almost as cool as Liquid Cereal. Almost. The world totally needs pot-pourri scented pregnancy tests.
Product idea and tagline by yours truly, layout, design and product name by Shane [...]
Continue Reading →My hatred of the worst condo sales centre in the world is being reported on Torontoist.com today.
For the record, the sales centre is not open for business yet, but I’m sure its four security cameras are already rolling, to catch any whisper of graffitist activity.
Continue Reading →March 22, 2006
Greetings, visitors from WestSideLofts.ca!
So you want to buy a condo, eh? Too bad these mysterious condo-selling web sites don’t offer much in the way of concrete information, hunh? You’d think if they wanted you to hand over a minimum $179,990 of your hard-earned dollars, plus interest, taxes and condo fees that [...]
Continue Reading →ING ads have always been a little weird to me. They make claims about offering spectacular things, and then when I look into it it’s like ‘OK, so it’s a savings account…’ But I think they’ve really gone off the deep end with this new slogan:
“The more you deposit, the more you???ll SAVE!”
Stop [...]
Continue Reading →Gaak!
The other day I was mentioning that we’re coming up on an Olympic year, and I assumed that our athletes were sitting around at home admiring themselves in their attractive Roots uniforms, and you know, like, practicing.
iMo corrected me. Roots is actually NOT outfitting the Canadian Olympic team. No! This year, [...]
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