Monthly Archives: June 2010

World Cup and beer

By question | Published: June 25, 2010
South African Breweries has created a new type of beer can for the World Cup, in order to get cold beer into the hands of thirsty fans as quickly as possible.  No more of this open-the-beer-and-pour-into-plastic-cup business.  Just pop the entire top right off the can and go to town.  They call it “full aperture”, [...]
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World Cup commercials part 4

By question | Published: June 18, 2010
The World Cup is in full swing now, so it’s time to watch some more commercials. First up this ad from Dodge that premiered during the USA v England match last week.  It seems targeted to air specifically during that game, and probably won’t be shown much after the game.  I know I haven’t seen it [...]
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Weezer World Cup song

By question | Published: June 11, 2010
I knew Rivers was a big USA soccer fan, and it’s great that they did this, put part of me can’t help but think it would have been so much better if Pinkerton-era Weezer did this.  Free download on iTunes for a week, starting tomorrow.
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Adidas Star Wars World Cup commercial

By question | Published: June 4, 2010
Aren’t I embarrassed.  In a previous post, I said I felt confident that I had already seen the best commercial of the 2010 World Cup.  Well I was wrong.  I’m not going to say that this is going to be the best one of the tournament, but it’s definitely the best one so far.  Here’s [...]
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