Posts tagged “commercials”

• Four agencies that specialize in Internet marketing — 10e20, Search and Social, Infinitenine, and Brent Csutoras Inc. — are joining forces in a roll-up to form BlueGlass Interactive.
• Why, yes, I do very much want a lightsaber.
• “It’s sort of nonsensical for a twice-divorced single mother of two to be using this line as seduction.” (a classic from @anildash)
• Why do foreign commercials always seem so much better than ours?
• Must read: Seven Reasons I’m Glad I’m an SEC Fan After Conference Expansion
• “Is there a large mammal standing on your phone right now, such as a mountain goat or cheetah?”
• No Mouse Is Safe: Cat Gets World’s First Bionic Paws
• The preview video of the new EA Sports NCAA 11 looks amazicredible.
• I really don’t know what to say about phoneballs.com.

• If you like our football team, you’ll love our chem labs full of Asian students!
• People sometimes ask me why I never wanted to be a bullfighter. It’s simple, really. I tremendously dislike getting gored through the throat with a horn.
• I am ashamed to admit that I knew only four of these 10 Facts Every Westerner Should Know about the Middle East.
• Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water: Invisible Sharks!
• Dedicated games should review this handy guide to Pac-Man ghosts.
• @BPGlobalPR is some seriously black humor.

There’s an excellent Kia Sorento commercial right now featuring a sock monkey and a monster (and some other kid toys). They go bowling and the sock monkey gets a tattoo. The best part, though, is the song. It’s How You Like Me Now, by The Heavy. You can find it on the album The House That Dirt Built on iTunes.

Sidebar: I just noticed that the latest version of iTunes now lets you easily post a song or app to Twitter or Facebook. (Savvy guys, those Apple engineers.) But here’s something extraordinarily odd: The URL that iTunes provides for the link is absurdly long. The one for the song mentioned above is http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-house-that-dirt-built/id328490302, which is seventy characters. Twitter only allows 140 characters! Why in the world isn’t Apple running their own URL-shortening service?

• I’d like to see these foods do battle in some sort of Clogged Arteries Marathon: Deep Fried Butter and Krispy Kreme Cheeseburgers vs. KFC’s new Bacon and Cheese Wrapped in Fried Chicken Breasts sandwich
• Did you think the Super Bowl ads were too sexist? The Google Search was my favorite, but it’s tough to not love the Letterman/Oprah/Leno one, too. (The story behind it is great.)
• I happen to think it’s pretty sweet that the highest-paid employee in the city of Madison, Wisconsin is a bus driver.
• Seeing a space shuttle launch in the night sky is truly epic. It’s much more awesome — and I mean that with the full force of the word — than a daytime launch. If you never got the chance, you probably won’t.
• Curious men could count soon count their sperm from home. Good times!