real-cost pepsi detournement

Most likely one of the cutest detournements of the soda pop industry, by Lawrence Yang.

Ad-free childhood, adulthood, Internet

By Candice Novak
There are some
progressive programs working towards an ad-free childhood (less product-placement in Saturday morning cartoons, more brand-free bibs). And the merit of such projects are gaining backing from the scientific and mental health community.
Oh, yeah — and parents are realizing there’s something wrong when they can’t find one pair of pampers at Target [...]

the tragedy of too much stuff

In a capitalist society obsessed with things — the latest, the highest-tech, the coolest — we are been taught by corporations to be hoarders. That dirty label is not longer saved for crazy cat-ladies with bulging rooms of knick-knacks and depression-scarred lunatics.
This piece on Weekend America about the tragedy that is our junk and the [...]

Buy Nothing Day sails over press’ heads

While people are being trampled by customers in the wee hours of the morning on this Black Friday, many are confronting the control consumerism has on Western culture by rejecting that frenzied need to buy, buy, BUY.
Unfortunately, even independent National Public Radio is jumping on the buy-bandwagon with reports almost harrowing shoppers as heroes in [...]