We Know This Already

VOSS WATER IS BULLSHIT

Yes, all bottled water is bullshit.  We've known this for years.  Unless you are going to tell me something more substantial, like a brand of bottled water is full of potentially harmful byproducts that are not water, why bother telling me this?

Empowering Women In Their Underwear

On August 22nd, Time, as well as other online publications later on, picked up on the story of a recent campaign by online underwear company Dear Kate.  The campaign features several women, identified as prominent women in tech coding, doing their jobs while dressed in only some of the underwear on sale by Dear Kate.  Some people have found this ad to be objectionable, with one tech blogger being quoted as saying “Posing in your underwear undermines the message that you aim to be taken seriously as a technologist,”.

The campaign can be found here, and, as someone who often spends parts of his mornings watching online pornography, in my opinion these pictures aren't particularly titulating.  This campaign features women in a staged office situation doing the things that they would do in their jobs.  The difference is that they are doing so in their underwear, and that is where the problem is.  Other than the fact that these were pictures taken by an online underwear company in order to sell underwear online, why are these women in their underwear?  It's not like these women regularly do their jobs wearing only their underwear, so why are they in their underwear?  There doesn't seem to be any legitimate reason for it, other than to garner attention due to the distinct possibility that people will object to it-- wait, that's it!

The point of any promotional campaign is to get attention for the product that you are promotion.  If the product doesn't get attention than the campaign fails.  In that way, this campaign is successful.  I mean, I don't remember ever hearing of Dear Kate before, and I spend a lot of time online looking at women in their underwear.  This campaign has also gotten the attention of people who object to women being objectified, as well and the people who object to people objecting to women being objectified.  This campaign probably got the attention of a lot of people who might be motivated to act with their dollars and support or not support this company.  Now the real question: Did this campaign result in increased sales?  We'll have to see.

Really AP?

The Associated Press is a venerated news source that is known for it's great reporting of national and international news stories and events.  The Associated Press doesn't have star reporters, AP is the star, the brand, the name that people can drop so that people know that what is reported is legit.  However, sometimes the Associated Press can report things in a way that is, for lack of a better term, wrong.

Amazon could be ESPN of video games in Twitch deal

This headline reflects a lack of understanding of Amazon, Twitch, and ESPN.  The body of the story only affirms that misunderstanding.

Boobs. Boobs Boobs Boobs Boobs. Boobs.

Let's Have a Conversation About Kim Kardashian's VMA Dress

Okay.

This dress combines four of my favorite things: Red, black, white, and boobs.  Also, the pattern is interesting.  The pattern gives me a semi-legitimate excuse to stare at the dress.  I mean the boobs are also a legitimate reason, but staring at this dress for the boobs is generally seen as lurid, and lurid things are wrong.  Looking at this dress for the pattern is a non-lurid reason to stare at this dress, but no one would believe that you are looking at this dress for the pattern.  Also, did I mention boobs?