Subtle marketing? Yeah right: It's pink and has an impossible silhouette! It must be the new female-branded beer called Chick Beer with "just 97 calories and 3.5 carbs".
Celebrity: I don't understand the Kardashian phenomenon. But the caked-on faces of the three sisters from the US reality TV stars are everywhere. I was visually assaulted by a giant placard of them, hoisted above an array of cheap shoes at Hannahs, St Lukes just the other day... So naturally I was delighted to find this clip of a news anchor, who after wrapping an interview with two of them, takes the piss out of them.
Bad ads: How to market a $6,000 toilet? Like this, apparently.
Picture this: This wonderful series of photos, Love Me, by Zed Nelson, suggests the westernisation of beauty is the new globalisation - skin lightening, hair straightening in Africa and surgically westernised eyes, nose implants and leg lengthening in China. And even operations to wear high heels more comfortably: "I've had three toes shortened - a portion of bone removed between the joints and fixed together with metal rods. I like to wear Jimmy Choos, three-inch heels with a pointy toe." The full gallery here (WARNING: there are a couple of surgery shots) and edited highlights without the blood and guts here.
Picture this: A series of pictures showing parts of Japan devastated by the 9.0 earthquake in March - click them to see the scene six months on.
