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This makes my brain hurt, but as it isn't in Khmer, I can't be bothered with it right now:
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/business/Blog-it-but-dont-flog.3616...

(oooh, link sent via steve at the antiadvertisingagency.com!)

p.s. More on consumerism in Cambodia—particularly its most celebrated holiday, Christmas—here: http://camblogdia.blogspot.com/2007/12/i-will-tell-you-about-christmas-n... and here: http://camblogdia.blogspot.com/2007/12/cheung-eck-happy-merry-christmas.....

also for the Anti-Advertising Agency, where I wrote up a li'l thing about this awesome new tobacco marketing campaign! Which is totally cool and indie! You can read about it here: http://antiadvertisingagency.com/

*please note: enthusiasm implied in these exclamation points may be ironical.

Overrated, homophobic (see: "Bunny Ain't No Kind of Rider", in which it is apparently acceptable for a straight white male to complain "you're just some faggy girl",) Of Montreal singer Kevin Barnes just wants everyone to know that he loves capitalism beacuse it punishes the "lazy" in a rant that not only displays a shocking misunderstanding of capitalism, anarchism, and global economics. A commenter over at Idolator points out that Barnes' rant is eerily reminiscent of the works of Ayn Rand, which is a pretty astute observation.