Diesel Fuels On, Firefox Pwns IE, MySpace Gets Spacelift, Nike Sends Office Foot Soldiers Running

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– More on Diesel’s Fuel for Life. It all started with a guerilla campaign called No Legalization, in which the fabled Society Against Legalization fought tooth and nail to forbid public consumption of the perfume.

– Pingdom gets more people to divorce IE for Team: Firefox. We didn’t realize the browser wars were so … personal.

– NBC and News Corp execs name their nameless collaboration site Hulu “because it sounded fun and rhymed with itself,” says MarketingVox.

– Yet one more reason to jump the Goodship MySpace for Facebook: Spacelift! Now you can turn your MySpace into Facebook! Holy shit! (Sorry – it just seemed like it had to be said.)

– For “Gone Running,” Nike puts together a very hard-to-read do-not-disturb-type sign that vibes like a nervous breakdown (but with a light at the end of the tunnel!).

– Google and CNN become bosom buddies. That’s … sweet.

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