More anger geared at the religious types. I am doing some scouring of designs for work, and looking at big corporate sites, but, y’know, cool ones… Unlike Dell, which sucks and is boring. GM, Apple, etc. Good stuff.
I surf to Pepsi’s site, thinking that they are an enormous corporation, but also have some interest in keeping their finger on the pulse of the younglings of our nation and the world.
And I see this big red area in the left-hand corner, stealing your eye from every other design element on the page (none of which are particularly great anyway, but that’s not the point.) “False Rumor Alert.”
Hmm. Pepsi’s not campaigning for President (whatever Slate says), so I’m wondering why they need to Fight The Smears, too? I click.
And apparently there’s an email forward going around – has been going around for years – telling people to send angry letters to Pepsi because they left the words “under God” out of the Pledge of Allegiance.
Double-Yew.
Tee.
EFF.
YOU PEOPLE HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO WITH YOUR TIME??? THAN WRITE PEPSI ABOUT THIS??
Not to mention that this whole thing is really distorted entire out of proportion – Dr. Pepper had a can that had THREE words from the Pledge after 9/11 – and that’s what started this whole mess. Three words. And you’re not satified enough that one of the three isn’t GOD, so you have to WRITE LETTERS?
I’m going to pray right now. To God, Jesus, the more enigmatic Holy Spirit… or Ganesh, or Ahura-Mazda, or whoever, to take care of these people. Or at least make them unable to get to the polls on all important voting days from here on out.
