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I found this online and found pretty amusing. Some people…

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Good quote from a good show (Futurama).

Today we apply this lesson to this Snickers Super Bowl ad:

Everyone I know, myself included, found this commercial pretty funny; enough so that later it was one of the few commercials we seemed to remember. Well, the Snickers and the Rock Paper Scissors ad that I forgot what it was for until I just watched it again. However, not everyone liked it:

“That Snickers, Mars and the NFL would promote and endorse this kind of prejudice is simply inexcusable,” GLAAD President Neil Giuliano said in a statement.

Link to the article.

I think this is just a statement to try to make some organization seem relevant. This wasn’t prejudice ad; it was just an attempt at humor to get someone to remember a product. Get over it.

To me this ranks up there with the anti-drug people having a problem with the Toy ‘R Us supposedly promoting inhalant use. People are just hypersensitive and know they can get themselves and/or their organization some press so they make a big deal out of nothing.

More Super Bowl XLI Ad Commentary

So anyway, for the most part I was unimpressed with this year’s Super Bowl ad collection so I don’t have a lot to say about it.

Notable Super Bowl XLI Ads (in no particular order):

1. Emerald Nuts “Boogeyma n”

This was just weird, I love it.

2. Garmin Super Bowl Commercial

This one appealed to my inner Godzilla fan with the cheesy monster battle and cheap-looking set, another good one.

3. New Steak Grilled Taquitos

I like talking animals, this one was pretty decent.

4. But He Has Bud Light

Nice “B” horror movie vibe and it was funny too.

5. Snickers Super Bowl Ad

“Do something manly”

More Disappointment

Something else I was unimpressed with, Puppy Bowl’s Kitten Half Time Show. Yeah I watched some of it, wanna fight about it? Anyway, I think everyone agreed, the dogs were definitely “on” something because they were way more active in Puppy Bowl III than they were in Puppy Bowl I or II.

There seemed to be a few dogs with inferiority complexes too, they were all over the place running, jumping, biting, and maybe even a little light humping the other puppies. But overall I’d say it looks like the Puppy Bowl is becoming more popular/well funded than it was in previous years. I wont be surprised when Puppy Bowl V rolls around…

Watching some hockey tonight I’ve seen this ad a couple times.

I think the NHL needs more ads like this to help draw some fans (back) to the NHL/hockey. I also think the NHL should be on ESPN/ESPN 2 which would probably help them out a lot too, but that is just my opinion, but it does seem harder to find a hockey game on during the week now that the NHL is on VS…

Awwwww yeah…

Err: We get checks from the government and spend them on beer. Mexican beer! Ignignokt: That is the cheapest kind of beer.

I still laugh when I think about or read this Mooninite story:

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/02/01/boston.bombscare/

Ignignokt and Err from Aqua Teen Hunger Force proved this week that people just scare too easily now. That or Boston is full of pansies.

Two men pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges they created panic by placing “bomblike” electronic light boards displaying a cartoon character with an upraised middle finger throughout Boston.

Does this really look scary? I find it amusing, but apparently not everyone does.

Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis called the stunt “unconscionable,” while Boston Mayor Thomas Menino called it “outrageous” and the product of “corporate greed.” Democratic Rep. Ed Markey, a Boston-area congressman, added, “It would be hard to dream up a more appalling publicity stunt.”

I can think of plenty more outrageous, greedy, and appalling publicity stunts than this. This is nothing more than a kid’s toy with a mostly unknown cartoon character giving the finger. Sure it was placed in a number of cities, but that is how advertising works! Someone else says it has a “very sinister appearance” because of the wires and batteries. I think even the news networks carrying this story are beginning to realize the story is a bit of a stretch and in an attempt to emphasize just how dastardly this marketing campaign was they are blurring out the Mooninite middle finger on TV. Dumb.

So a few things come out of this whole experience:

1. This awesome picture above.
2. This is pretty much my definition of a viral marketing campaign, talk about “bang for your buck” on this one.
3. If the writers/network have the guts to do so, they can make this into one potentially very funny show.

Enough, of this, time for some Mooninite quotes!

1. Ignignokt: Is your ego satisfied? Err: Damn no!
2. Err: You all have any eggs? ‘Cause I’m totally gonna mess someone’s house up!
3. Err: Point is: we’re at the center, not you.
4. Ignignokt: Our god is a god of vengeance. A god of hate. Err: A god of action! Ignignokt: Our god is an Indian who can turn into a wolf and- Err: Dude, that’s Wolfen. Ignignokt: Yes, well Wolfen will come after you, with his razor.

I was downtown Chicago today and stopped by Millennium Park with my camera and took some pictures… Later when I flipped through some of the pictures I took I noticed these two. (Click to see the full sized image!)

Somehow these people managed to show up in several pictures I took while wandering around the park. From the looks of the photo they were really going at it, seems like the kinda thing I would have noticed…

The title about says it all… Look, here’s a YouTube video.

Part of me thinks that guy filming this was a little too into it.

I looked into it some more, and they aren’t really USB drives, just something you plug in and it humps your computer… hmm… LOOK! A picture!

OK, so it is nearly two in the morning, I think I’ve got the blog software working in an acceptable manner, for now, so it’s time for a “real” post.

So back in mid-November I was out of town for a few days and when I got back I had found out that the server my web site had been on before was hacked and one of those PayPal phishing sites was setup on it. Lucky me the solution was to simply wipe all the content, restoring my site to its initial state. I had no back up so I get to start over, that will be a lesson I suppose (one I will probably resume ignoring all too soon again). I tried to re-populate my blog with some content from another blog I had, but it is all sports related…

Anyway, I’ve got no time to write up my own software and re-design my own site again so for now a canned solution (WordPress + a theme I liked) will have to work. I’ve also been thinking about converting over to a .Net web host if I get the motivation/time to do so, so I didn’t see the need to invest a lot of time in this. Let me know if you have a recommended .Net web host.

Sooner or later, probably sooner while I’m on my blog tangent, I will try put a few files back up here, such as the Yahoo movie time script and the .Net color console thing.

Tonight I got to watch the “Dead and Deader” SciFi movie that was new in December. I had wanted to watch it for a while but for one reason or another hadn’t or didn’t have the time. Well I got the time tonight and was pretty disappointed. I usually enjoy a zombie movie regardless of how bad it is, but this one was kinda dumb. But I guess that is what I should expect out of a SciFi movie.

So one last thing before I post on the Bears before tomorrow, I find this cat image fairly amusing. I’ve seen a number of the other “cat” images like this but am always up for more, let me know if you’ve got any links to them!