Friday Odds and Ends

By Kiran Aditham 

-David Lubars as Don Draper? Donny Deutsch as Pete Campbell? Fast Company imagines the possibilities. link

-Campbell Soup drops its negative ad campaigning in the hopes of sharing a bowl of minestrone with Progresso. link

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-AMV BBDO has launched a new choose-your-own adventure site to promote Doritos’ “mysterious” iD3 flavor. link

-Not quite on par with Goodby’s “Shake It” YouTube video, but a decent page takeover nonetheless by EA Sports to promote Madden 10. link

-New York-based production company Park Pictures added creative collective The Glue Society to its directing roster. link

-Tokyo Film Festival rejects The Cove, a film about the Japanese slaughter of dolphins. Hypocritical much? link

-After helping Razorfish parent company aQuantive get sold to Microsoft back in the day, former CEO Brian McAndrews has landed at VC firm Madrona Ventures Group as managing director. link

-Alan Wolk analyzes the Tweens on Twitter issue via PowerPoint. link

-Street art wins the battle against ads (for the time being) in NYC. link

-Yahoo wants to know if users will donate a penny per email to fight spam. link

-A one-armed UK Abercrombie & Fitch worker wins her wrongful dismissal case against the chain. link

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