desultory thoughts

Coca Karma

2005-08-16T16:25:00.000+10:00

This is a court case that I have been following for quite some time. And feel that in light of resent events I must pay my respects, to a man who challenged a corporate giant in the name of justice. His struggles sadly lead to many years of pain and fruitless results. After 16 years of battling it has all come to an end when earlier this year, Bobby Kolody’s wife, Shelly found him sitting upright in his room, his fists were clenched but his heart had stopped beating.

For those of you who do not know, it all began back in 1989, when an independent marketing consultant named Bob Kolody pitched Simon Marketing, aka Coca Colas ad agency, a few concepts that involved a graphic collusion of Coca-Cola and automobiles memorabilia. Bob Kolody heard nothing from Simon Marketing and later heard that his campaign was being disseminated though Coke’s new Cherry Coke can design. When Kolody attempted to discuss the matter with Simon Marketing he was rebuffed and they claimed to have lost his story boards.

In 1994 Kolody saw the ‘contour bottle’ on a Coke Classic Can in an airport and realised that Coke had adopted another of his original concepts. For three years Kolody could not find someone to file his case against Coca-Cola and Simon Marketing, but then in 1997 Kolody finally got John De Camp to file the court case and so began the never ending war.

It is a very interesting and long case, full of lies, injustice and government intervention, the case is impossible to summarise. How ever a detailed account can found at http://web.archive.org/web/20040405130209/www.guerrillanews.com/cocakarma/synop.html.

The moral of the story girls and boys is that the small guy never wins.

mmm good

2005-08-15T19:29:00.000+10:00

This is something I came across on one of my journeys into the land of the ‘www’. It is a recipe for brewing Cola, it is not the Coca Cola version, but it is very similar.

I was very tempted to make some … that is until I read the instructions… then I changed my mine and decided that Cola making is best left to the experts.

I thought it was fascinating that something I am so ‘addicted’ to is so dangerous and life threatening to make, one mistake can and will cause particularly nasty effects.

http://www.colawp.com/colas/400/cola467_recipe.html

lies all lies

2005-08-11T23:19:00.000+10:00

For some reason I feel it is important for me to incorporate this document in my blog. It is fairly old nevertheless an interesting read.
So in the case that someone still believes Moores lies fifty-six deceits is a must read.

enjoy.

i hate blogs

2005-08-10T21:30:00.000+10:00

I really dislike Blogs and Bloggers. It is a great means to communicate, but far too many people abuse the power to be heard. Posting issues of interests and interesting things in general is one thing, but there are far too many Bloggers posting meaningless crap about the frozen peas they had for dinner the pervious night. Does any one really care? Can any one honestly say 'Yes, that fact that I found out that Anonymous had frozen peas has changed my life'?

Another thing that annoys me is that far too many Bloggers are looking for sympathy or acceptance of some kind. Why not spend your time more productively and ‘Go find some real friends’.

Which make me wonder, if you do in fact get more comments then me does that somehow make you a better person or fulfil you? What does a comment mean in the grand scheme of things?