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Boston Globe explores the cognitive science of magic tricks. Via Neuromarketing, which builds a bridge between the article and our industry; also see our earlier posts on brand magic, corporate magic, and focus group hypnosis.

A huge list of brands on Twitter.

If you write creative briefs, take a look at how CIA approaches problem solving through asking the right questions (the original source is the Thinkertoys book).

Clicky — “one of the best web analyzers on the planet”. Actually, it’s looking pretty good.

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“Zack and Miri Make a Porno” opened at the Toronto film festival last week and this poster – yes, this one on the left here – was banned because.. Well I don’t even know why.

Silent Bob a.k.a Kevin Smith might just be getting his fingers slapped for putting the word “Porno” in the title here – he actually had to petition the film’s rating down from NC-17 to R, and now this poster is banned by the MPAA. Whisky tango Foxtrot? The poster is humourous and fully clothed – though with two conspicuously placed heads. Is this deserving of a ban? What do you adgrunts think?

Only those who have done what is implied here might get – and if you’ve done it, I reckon it may be to late to save that kid with a rating. Girls are pregnant at the age of 17 – I think they might now what the woohoos and dodahs do.

I’d understand the ban if the “coming soon” was spelled differently. Puns like that are evil. 😉

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LONDON – MindShare has appointed Isobar’s search specialist Hannah Evershed as its first global search engine marketing (SEM) director.

LONDON – Paddington, the duffle-coated bear, is back on screens hawking the love-it-or-hate-it snack, Marmite.

LONDON – SABMiller is preparing to launch a beer brand aimed at female consumers across its global markets.

LONDON – General Motors, under siege from internet gossip about the state of the world’s largest carmaker, this week came out fighting with the launch of a website designed to make a `distinction between the facts and rumours surrounding the company.’

LONDON – Coca-Cola’s multi-million pound deal with the upcoming James Bond film shows that the spy continues to be a huge draw for brands. The tie-up, which will see Coca-Cola Zero rebranded as Zero Zero 7 to support the second film with actor Daniel Craig playing Bond, is the latest in a long line of collaborations.

LONDON – Agency network Interpublic Group has denied that it plans to merge its two UK media agencies Initiative and Universal McCann following the former’s loss of its flagship £75m Orange media planning and buying account last week.

LONDON – Publicis Groupe launches its VivaKi UK Media Trading unit this week ahead of the autumn trading season, combining the buying power of Starcom MediaVest, Zenith­Optimedia and Digitas.

LONDON – Sky’s digital sales house, Sky Digital Media, has added another third-party entertainment website to its portfolio, Screenrush.co.uk.