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If you're suffering from ringing in your ears, why not try a new product called Quietus? Yes, that's right, a company has named its medication after the suicide ritual in Children of Men.
You'd think that product developers might try Googling a little bit before giving their ear drops a name that will invoke images of mass drownings and suicide drugs. (In the novel, Quietus refers to government-authorized mass drownings of the old and infirm, and in the movie it's a suicide drug.) But maybe the makers of Quietus actually wanted to play into the scifi reference? It's hard not to see a bit of Children of Men in these ad slogans for Quietus. That sound in your head making you want to die? Just try Quietus! It works for everybody.
http://io9.com/5452118/from-the-department-of-clueless-advertising---If you're suffering from ringing in your ears, why not try a new product called... more
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If you go to northwest South Dakota, between Meadow and Glad Valley, there you will find the furthest spot from any McDonald's in the contiguous United States, a depressingly local 145 miles by car.
This map was created by Stephen Von Worley, who used location data on the 13,000 plus MickeyD's locations along with some coding-fu to generate the above map. What we see is as expected, a network of the franchises largely following the freeway and highway system and increasing in density in proportion to the population density. According to Von Worley, the furthest you can get from a McDonald's is in the aforementioned prairie wasteland of South Dakota, 107 miles as the crow flies from the nearest set of golden arches. And people wonder why we're a fat nation. For the complete breakdown and a full resolution version of the map, head over to Weather Sealed:
http://www.weathersealed.com/2009/09/22/where-the-buffalo-roamed/If you go to northwest South Dakota, between Meadow and Glad Valley, there you will... more
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Products that are given weird, strange, suggestive or just plain BAD names are fairly common, funny and sometimes, they suffer loss of sales because of it. More WTF and silliness here...Products that are given weird, strange, suggestive or just plain BAD names are fairly... more
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