A new app called Ghetto Tracker - a service that helps people identify safe areas in unfamiliar cities - was swiftly changed to Good Part of Town after complaints of racism. Critics say it is for helping the rich to avoid the poor. The app functions by allowing locals to rate the safety of different parts of a given area. According to The Week, the original launch of the page featured a white family of four smiling alongside the app's promise to show users "which parts of town are safe and which ones are ghetto, or unsafe".
Passions run high in icecream revival run-off
Tip Top's Bring Back Your Favourite icecream marketing exercise wasn't even original (remember the Chocoade biscuit revival?) but it still captured the limited imagination of a Facebook audience. Hardly anybody was keen on the mint Trumpet, but it was neck and neck between the Strawberry Toppa and the Fruju Tropical Snow with the Toppa winning. Eight hundred people commented - mostly to suggest the voting was rigged or to snipe because their favourite didn't win. Tip Top's PR machine replied to the first 70 or so comments with a variation of the same line: "The race was so close between Toppa and Fruju ... Both icecreams had overwhelming support. We've heard how passionate you guys are about the almighty Snow, so we definitely won't be ruling it out for the future ..." Gah!
What would Jesus think about bumper sticker?
An Anglican parishioner complained in August about the "blasphemous" bumper sticker she saw on the car of Rev Alice Goodman of Cambridge, England, but Ms Goodman immediately defended it as not irreligious (although, she conceded, perhaps vulgar). The sticker read "WTFWJD?" which is a play on the popular evangelical Christian slogan "What Would Jesus Do?" Ms Goodman pointed out that even Dr Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, seemed unfazed by her sticker when he saw it.
