Jul 18 2007
The folks behind the marketing of the upcoming The Simpsons Movie have angered pagans worldwide by creating a 180-foot tall image of an underwear-clad Homer Simpson on the same hill as the famous Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset, England. The image of Homer is made of biodegradable paint which will eventually dissolve and wash away. [...]
Mar 28 2007
…and winned! But all I won was a stupid cup of coffee. So now I’m sitting here with this empty cup that’s worth a full cup. But that means I have to walk through the mall with it, through the Metro station, down to the other mall, and over to the Tim Horton’s kiosk. Then [...]
Mar 05 2007
About a million years ago (OK, 1970), a movie came out starring Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw called “Love Story.” It was based on a novel of the same name by Erich Segal, who also penned the screenplay. The movie was hugely successful, and has since been given the “number nine” position on the American [...]
Apr 07 2006
Yet another compendium of lesser rants to send you off into a merry weekend… Katie’s Got a Job So Katie Couric is moving from NBC to CBS. Why does anyone care? It’s just a talking head job. Big deal! Anyone with a bit of charm and an overly clean set of choppers could do the [...]
Mar 24 2006
It’s not like I do this every week (or any week), but hey, it’s Friday and this is a roundup. DVRs and Ad Retention According to AdAge.com, an BBC study has shown that television ad retention is actually better in houses that have a digital video recorder (DVR). This goes against conventional advertising wisdom that [...]
Feb 09 2006
Yesterday I posted about my problems with the Motorola v710 and Telus. One of my problems was that Mobile TV did not work for the first two months that I had the phone. It works now, finally, but it really sucks. The sound is bad, and the picture quality is very bad. But I suppose [...]
Mar 17 2005
Bell Sympatico has been circulating an ad for their new “Parent Control” service that says “You’ll do anything to protect your kids from inappropriate content. So will we.” The accompanying picture is of anatomy book open to a page titled “The Female Body.” The breasts and pubic region have been cut out. Many people (1, [...]
