But Can It Whiten Your Soul?

12 11 2009

Crest® Whitestrips® already do so much. They make your coffee-stained nicotine-yellow teeth gleaming white again, and all you have to do is wrap them around your teeth like a garrote and hope you don’t choke on them in the night.

But now, they do more. They travel back in time and whiten your teeth retroactively. How is such a miracle possible? Why, thru a Facebook app, of course.

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Her teeth are already pretty white, tho ...

It seems that the good people at Crest®, unhappy with only making teeth white in the real world, are now going after digitized teeth as well. And why shouldn’t they? Facebook is the home of misleadingly flattering pictures. There’s even a Facebook group for haters of the “Facebook Pose.” And now, there’s Crest® Whiten-It.

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For when white isn't white enough.

Oops, I mean, Crest® Whiten-It! Check out what it did for these disgusting yellow teeth! Read the rest of this entry »





Walmart App Runs Mom-and-Pop Apps Out of Business

9 11 2009
Walmart app

App coded by 9-year-olds in a Chinese sweatshop.

It’s hard to know where to begin with this particular app.

1. Walmart is a lifestyle? Since when?

2. It seems unlikely there is much overlap between iPhone users and Walmart shoppers. How many people with mullets do you see using an iPhone?

3. The one time I’ve been in a Walmart, a customer told me she had left her baby in the car.

4. Will this app replicate the “I need to take a shower” feeling one gets after being in a real Walmart?

5. Can I get trampled to death while using this app, just like at a real Walmart?

It seems fair to assume that Walmart only created this app because the People of Walmart blog is looking to create their own iPhone app, and the horrifying retail giant wanted to beat its satirists to the punch. However, based on its search abilities, it seems the Walmart app has barely made it out of beta.

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We don't carry that game.

found

Oh wait, yeah we do.

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Dolphins do not have fingers or thumbs, cannot use iPhone

6 11 2009

What’s great about this app is that it combines two failing enterprises into the same app: The perennial also-ran Miami Dolphins, currently occupying third place in the AFC East at 3-4; and the moribund Miami Herald, an enterprise once regarded as one of the best newspapers in the country, now flailing in the South Beach breeze with a circulation less than half its historic high of nearly 30 years ago.

Miami Dolphins App Fail

Want to miss the playoffs? There's an app for that.

It’s not clear if this app will help the Dolphins find their way to the Super Bowl any time soon, or even if it will let Dan Marino calculate the residuals from appearing in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (or how those nickels compare with the concomitant damage to his reputation).

But hey, it only costs $1.99 — and that’s still less than a share of Herald parent company McClatchy, trading today at $2.90, down from $71 five years ago.

Not convinced? Buy this app.

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