I just saw the latest Life Alert commercial and my reaction is so negative in so many ways that I hardly know where to begin.
Category: advertising
Busey commercial difficult to watch
This evening I saw again — twice — Gary Busey’s new commercial for Amazon Fire. It’s weird. Busey is weird. It’s a known weirdness, the
Chrome closes add-on vulnerability
Not long ago I wrote about a malware vulnerability with Chrome updates and extensions. Now, according to an item in Computerworld, it appears Google has
Coke commercial causes controversy
Coca Cola’s Super Bowl ad has caused quite an uproar on Twitter and Facebook. It seems a lot of people think the song “America the
Gone: That annoying JollyWallet pop-up
I just spent a fair part of my afternoon tracking down the way to get rid of an annoying JollyWallet pop-up ad, and perhaps my
Freaking out over ‘giffing out’
Massive amounts of Christmas advertising have always annoyed me. I’ve been a grinch for decades and freely admit it, and being assaulted by so much
Double, double toil and trouble
You may already be familiar with this high tech gizmo. It’s a telecommuting device of sorts, controlled by the owner, who uses an iPad or
Creepy ad from MetLife
Among the more tasteless ads on TV these days are several from MetLife. Two daughters have just heard that dad had an accident and rather
