The beverage aisle just keeps on getting more complicated. In the last two years companies have put their new product development on hyper drive and the beverage segment has fractured more and more. In the last few months, though, consumers are finding it even more difficult to find their favorite r...

our submitter is santa fe says not everyone at the new mexico department of health was happy when the folks in charge decided to call their own bullshit and replace the candy and sodas in the vending machine with new “healthy” snacks. (there is still a “junk food” vending mac...

We're not quite sure why, but there's something about toys doing drugs that makes us feel all warm and fuzzy inside. (You know, other than the actual drugs...) From Thor to Barbie, just put a joint in their mouths and some coke on their noses, and these dope-loaded playthings come to life in a way y...

Filed under: Celebrities Last night, while watching the Oscars (I was a little bummed that Viola Davis didn't win for her performance in Doubt, she was spectacularly good in that role), I was taken aback by the sight of Tom Colicchio in a commercial for Diet Coke. I've come to accept the bizarre pro...

wow, so another week begins?  you folks are enjoying the first day of a well deserved weekend while i go about starting my week.  don't get me wrong, i love my days off.  thursday and friday are awesome days off.  sometimes though i am a tad jealous of the folks who get to do stuff on weekends.Â...

The new Diet Coke ad from Mother had its first official airing last night during The Brits. I can’t say that I exactly warmed to it – and I’m bang on target audience. Based on the ad, I’m led to believe that drinking Diet Coke will make you want to ride around on a bicycle in the middle of t...

The news that Microsoft has hired a senior Wal-Mart executive to spearhead a move into retail will not come as much of a shock. These days retailers run the world, and companies like Microsoft, which have typically supplied big retail, are now increasingly drawn to the idea of opening up for themsel...

Forget about Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi. In India, cow urine, for medicinal purposes or otherwise, is being introduced to the ever-tightening soft drink market. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is a Hindu nationalist group that is currently developing a soft drink made from cow urine. It will be call...

Who knows, if Prince (the musician) had picked out an esoteric, but pronounceable, name, how many more albums would he have sold? And, I am quite sure the irony, of changing your company name, to that of a 1969 film of the same pronunciation , one about political murder, a government overthrown, wit...

We get a massive amount of tips in our inbox each week. Some are pretty interesting, but don't get published for one reason or another. (NSFW) It's usually because they're just so absurd or really lack even the most tenuous of news angles to give them the go-ahead. Other times it's because they're j...