Daily Archives: July 23, 2010

Target offers massive reward for use of RED cards

July 23, 2010 – 8:39 pm

by Hans Eisenbeis WHAT’S HAPPENING In autumn 2010, Target will reward customers who use their Target credit cards and debit cards in stores across the U.S. and at Target.com. Whipping out the RED will result in an instant 5% discount — a very generous rewards program compared to other credit and debit cards. Earlier this […]

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Hollywood Xers play midlife crisis for laughs

July 23, 2010 – 6:36 pm

by Cree McCree WHAT’S HAPPENING Ben Stiller is going gray. John Cusack is 44. As the first wave of Hollywood Xers hits middle age, a collective midlife crisis is brewing. And unlike Big Chill Boomers, they’re playing it for laughs. Hot Tub Time Machine takes Cusack back to 1986, when he and his coke-snorting buddies […]

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Best Buy administers pro bono “life support” to children’s hospitals

July 23, 2010 – 2:35 pm

by Sarah Barker WHAT’S HAPPENING Because maintaining a cyber lifeline can be critical to many members of Gen We, a Minneapolis-based Best Buy set up a “tech precinct” in Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, complete with Geek Squad agents (USAToday.com 6.16.10). Hospital planners integrated videogames and WiFi as part of the healing environment. A […]

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MAD WORLD

July 23, 2010 – 5:25 am

by Hans Eisenbeis I’ve been catching up on Mad Men, the hit TV series that launches its fourth season this week. As you undoubtedly know, it follows the triumphs and failures of an advertising agency in the man’s, man’s, man’s world of corporate Manhattan circa 1963. One of the things the show’s fans either love […]

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