At Atwater's Cafe in St. Petersburg, Mike Atwater offers up an array of southern cooking. But, the third generation small business owner doesn't offer his four employees health insurance.

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The advertisement stunned readers of the Florida Bar News. The headline reads: "What's so gay about it?" What follows is every vicious stereotype known to homophobia, portraying gays as little better than wharf rats: filthy, diseased and promiscuous.

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They are semi-naked, their bodies entwined. Their oily skin oozes sex. So, no surprise the 50-foot sexually explicit Calvin Klein billboard in downtown Manhattan has been raising more than eyebrows.

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It's been quite common for companies to sue Google when a competitor puts up an ad that references their own trademarks.

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In its latest ad campaign, Air New Zealand has given new meaning to the overused business cliche "transparency." The struggling Kiwi airliner has decided to emphasize that, unlike its competitors, it has nothing to hide. Well, literally..

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Local parents and women on MomsLikeMe.com are buzzing about Burger King's latest ad!

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Rockstar's recent TV advert for its controversial Grand Theft Auto IV game on the Xbox 360 has been let off the hook by the Advertising Standards Authority.

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Explicit language warning: One person's joke is someone else's insult it seems. Reader Nate sent in a photo of a fake poncho ad that ran in the LOLCats themed issue of the Boston-area free magazine Weekly Dig.

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If haven't seen the Ron Paul ad today, go buy a copy of USA today. I bought 2 this morning... and 1 for free from my school. I'm hanging them up around my house.

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To say Mr OReilly has had it in for me [Marc Cuban] the last month or so would be an understatement. Every day he seemed to take pride in calling me every name in the book and questioning my patriotism. I've already covered my feelings on that subject in blog posts here and here.

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It has been said that the best form of advertising is word-of-mouth. However, that theory has actually been proven true in recent years because of a new industry that is taking shape.

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The collision of commentary and advertising in the corporate press is sometimes comically surreal. Take George Monbiot s column in this week s Guardian:

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In an attempt to improve the accuracy of in-game advertising, corporate giant Google has drawn up plans to monitor the way people play online games and build 'psychological profiles' on millions of users.

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At Google, we are constantly looking for new, innovative ways to make the information you want more accessible and more relevant—and to deliver it as fast as possible.

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Craigslist Prank

The world of the Internet has made it much easier for people to come into contact with others, such as the allocation of a variety of advertisements.

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Once upon a time, the rich, sweetly pungent smoke of tobacco offered more than dreary old diseases like emphysema and lung cancer. It promised sophistication, sex appeal, even longevity itself. Gosh Darn, Wally!

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The best commercial of the year, Johnny Walker - human

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New Blog advertising model - looks like something of interest to help bloggers start to monetise their ravings.

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The conventional "this is your brain on drugs" image showing a frying pan and sizzling egg may be outdated. Today's anti-drug ads are keeping up with the times.

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BluScreen, an interactive advertising technology that identifies passers-by using their Bluetooth-enabled cellphones, is being tested at the school of Electronics and Computer Science at Southampton University in the UK.

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Flashy magazine ads portraying sexy women may not catch the eyes of female readers, according to recent research.

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Well, it might be news to you, so in case you missed it: A recent survey revealed that people pay less attention to adverts on television these days.

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A video of what looks like advertisment for the Microsoft Zune Player.

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Local third-world country actors can be exploited for less than immigrant actors from other third-world countries...

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According to PC Magazine, programs that use ActiveX controls (such as Acrobat Reader, Flash, QuickTime, etc.) won't work with the latest patch for IE. Can any viners shed light on this?

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