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President Obama signed new legislation that will heavily restrict the nicotine content and marketing of cigarettes, including the requirement that colorful ads and displays be replaced with black-and-white-only text. For a piece in its Sunday Perspectives section, the St. Petersburg Timesasked DJ Stout what cigarette manufacturers like Marlboro might do to follow the new marketing rules. Stout suggests that to comply with the crackdown, tobacco companies should embrace the restrictions and make cigarettes look truly dangerous. This, of course, will still appeal to a core group of smokers, but I don't think Smokers will mind that. They smoke the cigarettes, not the box.
Of courser, this reminded me of this nice comic from our friends at SEDiverse: Can't read it? Click this link.

Is it just me, or does the new BlackBerry commercial featuring U2 look a hell of a lot like an Apple ad? Or, more specifically, the Coldplay Apple ad? 





Ok, so the similarities are rather astonishing, but I think that the worst part is that the Blackberry commercial is very nearly twice as long (1.76x actually), and yet there is less point in the end. so, because blackberry loves U2 I should get one of their phones? The apple ad is specifically for the ability to download the brand new hit Viva la Vida before the CD is out. It is a benefit for Apple and iTunes, and it also is made using a program that Apple is touting. The Blackberry com mercial uses much more time and money for... what? oh, and did i mention the Apple ad looks much better? I was dying for this to be the new Viva la Vida music video and was sorely disappointed. I'd really like to find a way to get an HD version of this ad. seriously. It's a shame they did an excellent ad before and didn't learn from it.


If you follow the Youtube link to the original video, the description is as follows: "as if we need another reason to choose blackberry over iphone" ...um... Where do I start? The fact that the uploader is comparing a line of phones (Blackberries) to a single phone (technically 2 because of the 3g) or the fact that you are stating a Blackberry commercial featuring U2 that is a ripoff of an Apple commercial featuring Coldplay is a good thing? I'm lost... People can choose whatever they want.


But... the iPhone is superior...

He shouldda kept his updates private.

Because Hollywood forgot this day deserved a retarded movie. Oh wait. First, tell me the difference between this and a Nicholas Cage Movie.

Want an USB Drive? A Vuvix AV310? Don't know what the hell is that? Click here.

Testfreaks, the blog where you can get all reviews from the hottest gadgets everybody's talking about (except you, probably) has its weekly giveaway up and running and just by going to their site you can participate to win one of the five cool-looking USB drives or the sci-fi style Vuvix AV310.

What do you have to do? Well, they want links back to the contest. So if you have a blog, a site Facebook account or Twitter, anything, just post a link back to the contest entry. What are you waiting for? Drop by NOW!

Click here to participate in the contest.

Now let's hope I get that Vuvix... [/hint]

But there are moments in which, for whatever reason, being it a scientific discovery, a voyage into the unknown, or somebody's excessive alcohol intake, humanity advances one step forward into its destiny, a final state of clarity and peace that will take us all to the stars. This moment complies with the three reasons. Ah, you Ms. Spinning Blonde in Jeans you. I love you. 






As a note, statistics show that for every person who gets hurt in an elevator, at least 100 get hurt on escalators (often more).

"Today, I was walking on a path through a park by myself. I glanced at the ground and saw a shadow behind me.Thinking of an attacker, I screamed as loud as I could and began flailing my arms to ward him off. Turns out, it was a jogger. He had to stop due to his uncontrollable laughter. FML"


Oh WAO! Imagine that! Parks have other people!

I hate moving. I really do. It's like starting all over again, the only difference being that you stay with the same girlfriend, same crappy cellphone, same furniture and same excuse of a car.

And it doesn't end there. Remember the 6 hours you spent in your old home packing things and putting them inside boxes? Well, see those 6 hours multiply into 6 weeks as the boxes never seem to disappear while you try to reorganize everything. But that's not the least of your problems; finding all your stuff. I mean, I swear the keyboard was in that box, but then I find out that that box is just like all the boxes I have in front of me...

You just can'y help but to explode. But hey! At least there was something pleasant about moving: my Direct TV service. I thought I had to leave my precious Directv behind but I was able to continue my service without any effort. I got it installed here and really worked. I got a handful of local channels which were of no use to me thanks to HBO and Starz. So if you're planning to move to this state be sure to hook yourself up with Direct TV in Florida if you get the opportunity to live here. With so many packages to choose from and a surprising variety of channels to watch you'll become a couch potato in no time.

Now let me move some of these boxes so I can finally see what's on tonight... Now in which box was the tv remote again?

Cory Lamb, that's what. I'm not usually the kind of person that clicks on an ad, but I found this artist nearly by mistake. Intoxicating lyrics with a powerful beat is what you think of when you hear Cory Lamb's music. The music is contemporary rock with a production sophistication rarely found from today's emerging artists. 

He's good at what he does, and he's just starting out, so that means this guy will get bigger and better. Sony BMG, or UMG, take a look at this guy, he could be the one selling millions of copies in a couple of months.

Check his site out too and get three songs for free! Just the way we hobos like it.

• An information booklet that reads, "Do not use if you cannot see clearly to read the information in the information booklet";
• The warning, "Always use this product with adult supervision," a label that appears on the underside of a cereal bowl; and
• A warning provided with a 1" by 4" LCD panel, reading, "Do not eat the LCD panel." (I won't, I promise. Wait... did you say they taste like cherry?)

RIP Billy Mays, the greatest spokesman to ever live.

And, I'm not trying to be funny or anything when I say this, but you know how Frank Sinatra's tombstone says "The best is yet to come"? I think Billy Mays' should say "But wait, there's more" or something. Or just simply: "BILLY MAYS HERE. Seriously.

• Leading news websites saw traffic surge to 4.2 million visitors per minute from around 2.75 million visitors per minute, according to Akamai.
  
• CNN's traffic grew fivefold in one hour and the site clocked 20 million pageviews.
• Twitter had its biggest spike in traffic, to 5,000 tweets per second, since Barack Obama's election as president,according to co-founder Biz Stone.
  
• Facebook status updates tripled.
  
• AOL Instant Messenger went down for 40 minutes.
  
• TMZ, which broke the news of Jackson's death, crashed several times amid a surge of traffic.
  
• The LA Times, which got early confirmation of the death, went down, as well.
• For about half an hour, Michael Jackson queries weren't working on Google News.
  
• Wikipedia froze amid an edit war on Jackson's page.
• Livejournal went down too. Poor emo kids.

Google currently has 17,062 links (and counting) to news reports on Jackson. Every news channel has nothing but Jackson stories. I even saw Adam Curry interviewed on ABC about him. It’s all Michael, all the time.

Regardless of whether this is real or not, there are people out there that would freak out this much about losing their account on World of Warcraft.





Now, let's get some things straight:


1) This is what the tazmanian devil would be like if you made it snort coke for a year straight and then zapped it with a tazer

2) I feel bad for the remote. It didn't do anything to deserve being shoved up the ass of a crazy person. It's just there mindin it's own business...and wham....right up the ass!!! Not cool at all.

3) Is "batshit crazy" a language? If so, can someone that knows it translate this vid for me?




It's one thing to rage.

It's totally another thing to try and butt-f*ck yourself.