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October 22, 2009

"Windows 7 celebration burger" in Japan
via x.fredjame.com

This is a poster pic I got somewhere on the Web, and I reposted it on my Soup.io page. (Yes, this is a re-repost test.)

No, I don't think this is a fake or Phoshop mod, it's real. Microsoft did teamed up with Burger King to sell humongous hamburgers with SEVEN pieces of beef patties for ¥777 (around US$9) for Windows 7's formal release in Japan.

Granted, this is a good one in terms of marketing toward young people, but the burger look tasteless (I mean "untasteful") and bloated, just like most other Microsoft marketing material.

Wish Windows 7 is easier than this greasy hamburger to swallow. Well, I think it is.

(Hey, I didn't know Microsoft is on Posterous too. :P)

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October 1, 2009

Recruiting Transformers.

The recruiting TV advertisement of Taiwan's Armed Forces.

It's apparantly a "Transformer rip-off", and like the original Hollywood film, the responses are of two extremes. People like it call it "cool" and attractive to younger people, while others call it "deceiving" and "misleading", and say the authority should spend the money on improving the real stuff, since the jarheads recruited by this film may end up finding themselves greasing World War II-era bazookas in their barracks.

Well, as a country moving from conscription to all-voluntary armed forces, cool TV commercial is better than nothing as long as it didn't cost too much. Paying tribute to aliens is better than to the adversary. Isn't it?

Hey, it's AIM-120C on the F-16's wing-tip pylons!

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