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Celebrity Saturday Part II: Kim Kardashian sells more stuff

If you want to buy some of Kim Kardashian's 'old' clothes, you're in luck. She's selling some of them on eBay. A whopping 10% of the proceeds will go to charity.

Click here for a link to the Kardashian Kollection of clothing at Sears.

Celebrity Saturday: Cee Lo Green for Meow Mix cat food

Cee Lo Green got his cat Purrfect from an animal shelter. Now he's teaming up with Meow Mix cat food to raise money for pet shelters.

He's created a remix of Meow Mix's famous "meow, meow, meow" jingle.

Click here to listen to Cee Lo Green's remix of the Meow Mix jingle. For every download, the cat food brand will donate brand will donate a pound of Meow Mix to the Los Angeles branch of Pets Are Wonderful Support (PAWS).

Click here to watch the original Meow Mix jingle being sung by a cat.

Via AdFreak

Really like this ad (please, forgive me, fellow Liberals)

I support gun control and do not believe that carrying a concealed weapon is a fundamental right.

That said, from an advertising/marketing point of view only, I really like this ad from the U.S. Concealed Carry Association.

Click here to see some much less controversial ads.

Celebrity Saturday: Penelope Cruz for PETA

Click here to see how PETA used the Octomom in its advertising.

Via Daily Mail

Wish I could go to the 1,000,000 Hoodie March for Trayvon Martin

The story of this 17-year-old's death has been haunting me for weeks.

By now, pretty much everybody knows that Trayvon Martin was innocently walking on the sidewalk, armed with only with an iced tea and bag of Skittles, when a man with a gun thought Trayvon looked "suspicious" and confronted the kid. The end result was that Trayvon was shot dead.

The police in Sanford Florida, where this took place, saw no reason to arrest the man who shot the poor kid.

If you'd like to join the many who have already signed an online petition demanding justice for Trayvon Martin, click here.

And if you're in the New York City area and go to tonight's 1,000,000 Hoodie March, God bless you.

Free pancakes at IHOP today

In honor of National Pancake Day, you can get a free short stack of pancakes at IHOP. In return, IHOP hopes you'll make a donation to the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.

Click here to find the IHOP nearest you.

Jimmy Wales is a douche — and a lot worse — according to Wikipedia

When you search for 'douche' on Wikipedia, this is what you get:

Hats off to Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal for pointing this out on Google+.

Of course, there's no reason one has to stop at 'douche.'

Click here to see another example of unfortunate contextual advertising that is not at all funny.

Coming soon, Arctic Home Coke cans

Coca-Cola has often used polar bears as an icon.

The soft drink maker is doing it again.

Coke is introducing a limited-edition 1.4 billion white cans featuring polar graphics.

This time the polar bear imaging is also being used as a reminder that the bears' natural habitat is shrinking and steps have to be taken to ensure the bears' survival. To that end, Coca-Cola has already donated $2 million to the World Wildlife Fund's Polar Bear Conservation efforts.

Read more about Coca-Cola's Arctic Home promotion at The Die Line.

Click here to see the pixel-edition Coca-Cola cans.

Let's fight cancer with diabetes!

Headline and photo courtesy of a friend with a wicked sense of humor.

Click here to see another questionable use of pink ribbons.

Questionable ad for Vivienne Westwood handbags

This ad is promoting Vivienne Westwood's "Ethical Fashion" collection.

The press release says:

The handbags... are a part of Westwood’s Ethical Fashion Programme collection, where the iconic label has partnered with the International Trade Centre to provide jobs to over 7,000 women in the Kenyan capital, where they learn to create handmade, ethically produced bags for the London-based label. The project is intended to help provide people in one of the world’s poorest economies with actual skills they can use to maintain a living for themselves and their families.

I would have liked the ad better if it in some way expressed the brand's connection to the impoverished area in which the ad was shot. As it is, I find the juxtaposition of luxury fashion handbags (frivolous purchases by definition) in the midst of a shantytown to be offensive.

Via Cherryflava

Celebrity Saturday: Tony Braxton for autism awareness

Click here to watch the TV commercial featuring singer Tony Braxton for Autism Speaks.

Charming poster for a fundraiser

Via ffffound!

Help end the debt limit crisis, one tweet at a time

Are you as sick of this debt limit crap as I am? Tweet your senators and congressperson and tell them to do their job.

Click here for a complete list of Twitter addresses for US Senators and Congresspeople.