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This month's theme: Personal Product Placements

I've recently noticed a growing trend in this society: people identify themselves with their favorite products, sports teams, or bands, instead of using adjectives. For instance, I am not a sloppy, musical guy with an odd sense of humor, I am a U2 fan who likes the Detroit Tigers and Canada Dry Ginger Ale. Obviously, we are all guilty of this — we're Mac users. None of the below products or their companies paid me any money — they're here just because I like them.

Jones Soda
http://www.jonessoda.com/
I drank only one of these but I got such a rush my head hurt. This is a neat little page for a neat little soda-pop company. It has personal files for all their flavors — I found out that Lemon-Lime would like to meet Steve Jobs and I share a birthday with Jingle Berry. This is a microbrewery with some style.

DC Comics
http://www.dccomics.com/
DC Comics: they're not just for kids anymore! Sure, I have about a thousand DC Comics. Sure, I sometimes talk like Batman is real. I'm not strange. I've been reading these since I was six and I can't stop buying them, so they have got to be good.

Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream
http://www.benjerry.com/
There are two main reasons to visit this site. One is that Ben and Jerry's recently unveiled a new Dilbert ice cream (wow, product placement in a product placement). Since many of my readers are Dilbert fans (aren't we all?), that should be reason enough. The second is a contest in which the winner will receive a lifetime supply of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream. You can be darn sure I entered.

What We've Learned Today
Trends that alienate us from our humanity are really easy to follow. I hope you think the same.

         Ron Freeman
            ron@applewizards.net

   

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