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Pepsi beats Coca-Cola to retro-soda?

February 21, 2009

Apparently, Pepsi realized that people love soda made with cane sugar, and would rather drink these types of variants than the mass-market versions made with high-fructose corn syrup. While more expensive to produce, there’s clearly a market for this, which is why people seek out Mexican Coke in the States when possible, despite the [...]

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Starbucks Gold Card: totally worth it.

November 26, 2008

We’re not Starbucks whores as it were, but we certainly enjoy our fancy Starbucks espresso beverages, be that a simple latte, or a fancy seasonal like Starbucks’ exceptional Pumpkin Spice Latte. We’ve done the Starbucks card thing in the past, but unless the two-hours of free internet accompanying a drink purchase is what you’re [...]

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BuzzCap: Apocalypto.

September 24, 2008

Warning: spoilers below.

Apocalypto is the touching tale of an Indian a Mexican a Native American who changes colour. He comes from a small village that calls pigs “tapirs”, and hunts them with intricate booby traps that would make Indiana Jones jealous. The chameleone-sque Native American, named Jaguar Paw, is a practical joker, much like all [...]

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Fallout bottle opener: free.

September 21, 2008

When we ranted about “special” editions of video games last month, we mentioned the Nuka Cola bottle opener that gamers can pick up by pre-ordering Fallout 3 at Best Buy. Our annoyance over this pre-order bonus is that it’s a Best Buy exclusive, which may be good for Best Buy, but positively annoying for [...]

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The old Starbucks logo is better.

August 23, 2008

Somewhat surprised were we when we came across a post decrying the old brown Starbucks logo in favor of the censored, common-place green one. In said post, author Maxator doesn’t so much mind the bare breasts that most people complain about, but instead doesn’t like the idea of the Starbucks mermaid holding her “mer-legs” [...]

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