My dad forwarded me this pic that just says it all…

A couple of excellent articles from Business Week: 1 about how ads push your buttons, and another about how ads are changing in the face of the new media evolving in front of us:

This Is Your Brain On Ads

Advertising: Now a Conversation

Oh the troubles of the rich and narcissistic….

$49,267 mortgages
$16,000 clothes
$102,000 entertainment, gifts and vacations
$4,758 dining out
$35,000 for child and spousal support
$ 0savings and investments (all figures monthly spending)

Quick somebody tell Chris Crocker!

Most people saw this coming years ago.

At 10:59 a.m., a cheer went up on trading room floor

Is that in Canadian or American dollars?
“It didn’t really matter,” Mr. Feig says with a laugh. “It’s the same price either way.”