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Mark Sanford Is Latest Victim of an AshleyMadison Billboard Attack Ex-South Carolina governor gets punked

AshleyMadison.com doesn't get political unless there's a sex scandal to exploit, so of course they jumped all over Mark Sanford. Wait, that came out wrong. The extramarital dating website is…

May 2, 2013, 8:49 AM EDT

Pentagram Redesigns NYC's Parking Signs Into Twitter-Size Bites Streamlining a notorious mess

New York City hired design firm Pentagram to create new parking signs. That seems appropriate, as the pentagram is the sign of the devil, and parking in Manhattan can be…

January 15, 2013, 11:53 AM EST

White House Declines to Build a Death Star in Best Response to a Petition Yet Obama 'does not support blowing up planets'

In Adweek this week, Charlie Warzel writes about We the People, the online petition site that lets anyone propose an idea to the White House—which is obliged to respond to…

January 14, 2013, 11:46 AM EST

Will Ferrell Will Do Anything for You, If You Just Vote for Obama Tempting 11th-hour offer

Will Ferrell delivers the silliest and perhaps the most inspired presidential endorsement of the campaign season, donning a red smoking jacket and sporting a porny mustache as he offers to…

November 6, 2012, 8:02 AM EST

Joss Whedon: A Vote for Romney Is a Vote for the Zombie Apocalypse Unlikely endorsement for GOP candidate

Avengers director and geek-culture god Joss Whedon has an interesting take on why to vote (or not) for Mitt Romney: He's the candidate most likely to bring about the zombie…

October 29, 2012, 1:12 PM EDT

Terror Apocalypse vs. Lena Dunham: Who Gets Your Vote? Left and right bring out the big guns

Here's today's matchup of contrasting political ads, both released yesterday: The end of the world vs. Lena Dunham sex jokes. In the Republican corner, the Super PAC called Winning Our…

October 26, 2012, 1:02 PM EDT

Vote Now So You Can Complain Later, Says Election Campaign Third Street flips old adage on its head

"If you don't vote, you can't complain," the old saying goes. But that's not a great foundation for an ad campaign about voting—it's the wrong way around. How about: "If…

October 19, 2012, 12:01 PM EDT

Designer Creating Visual Brands for All 44 U.S. Presidents Meg Jannott is up through Reagan

James K. Polk was nicknamed Napoleon of the Stump. Grover Cleveland was also known as Uncle Jumbo. Those are just some of the bits of trivia I picked up from…

October 19, 2012, 9:02 AM EDT

Binder Boom: Trapper Keeper Mentioned 5,500 Times in 24 Hours Iconic '80s brand gets big buzz from Romney debate comment

I know, we're all tired of hearing about Mitt Romney's "binders full of women" comment at Tuesday night's debate, but I still wanted to share a fun fact: Over the…

October 17, 2012, 6:37 PM EDT

What a Surprise, Spirit Airlines Is Having a 'Binders' Fare Sale Pop-vulture marketer strikes again

You can set your watch to Spirit Airlines's dumb promotions tied to provocative current events. And sure enough, they're advertising a "Binders Full of Sales" deal today—a reference to Mitt…

October 17, 2012, 3:57 PM EDT

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