I've been meaning to obsess over last week's sale of the website Daily Candy — $3.5 mil! — but got distracted by more interesting things. Red and green nail polish pedicures, etc. Thankfully, reporter and blogger Amy Langfield was getting all up in their candy:

Daily Candy is a load of marketing crap. I used to subscribe to it - it's free - but soon got headaches reading the saccharine sweet goo that was clearly no more than re-written press releases. When I could take no more, I e-mailed the company and they e-mailed back acknowledging that some of the stuff they send are indeed paid promotions from advertisers. Just that their "advertorial" label isn't so clear. The text of that e-mail is here.

Candy-Ads [Amy Langfield]