Don’t be surprised if you can’t reach your soccer loving friends Tuesday. Just check any store that sells Xbox and PlayStation games. Oct 14 is the official U.S. Release of Fifa ’09, and anyone who can tell you what is on Channel 401 is liable to make 2 stops after work – one to the store, one to their den…
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Remember Rick rolling? LOL Cats? Well here’s the next fad. Here are 3 already. Look for 1000 more…Just keep clicking thru…
Finally, a tech product that is useful.
“Mail Goggles” is dubbed as a breathalyzer for your email. This Gmail add-on makes it harder to send email when you are, um, not thinking clearly, by asking a series of math problems during the times you specify. If you get any of the questions wrong, Mail Goggles will say, “Water and bed for you. Or try again.”
You can enable this tool for your Gmail for free from Google Labs.
Adotas brings us word that Barack Obama is bringing his presidential campaign to the coolest phone (and presumably most influential trendsetters) on the planet, releasing an iPhone app that will enable supporters to easily reach out to friends and remind them to vote for their favorite candidate.
According ot the story, the app, “Call Friends,” organizes the user’s phonebook by state and gives each contact a status (called or not called). You can also use the app to find out where he stands on issues – and of course – enables people to donate to the campaign.
I will tell you one thing. I wouldn’t trust a lot of politicians to run a company’s mail room, but if Obama doesn’t become President, he would certainly be a heck of a CMO.
These people got mortgages…..
Nothing about marketing here, really. But I have a simple idea for the NFL, NBA and MLB to stop teams from throwing games at the end of seasons ot get a better draft pick. Instead of making the draft based on worst to best record for the season before, why not define the draft order by worst to best record over the last THREE years.
I have a few reasons for this suggestion:
- This would stop events where a great team has a few key injuries in one season, ends up with the top overall pick, and builds a dynasty out of it (see Spurs, San Antonio.
- It’s hard to tank 3 straight seasons, so individual games are less important for draft order.
- Teams that are that bad for so long need real help.
- You can make your draft choices with some “general” idea where you may end up in next year’s draft, and make some strategic decisions on free agents based on this.
- Having a ridiculous string of unjustified good luck for 1/4 season doesn’t kill you.
Anyway, that’s my big idea for the day.
You have to wonder what the people at PETA are thinking when they have “brainstorming” sessions. It’s like they purposely come up with ways to alienate anyone in the middle 98% of mainstream thought. From WNBC in New York:
VERMONT — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent a letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, cofounders of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc., urging them to replace cow’s milk they use in their ice cream products with human breast milk, according to a statement recently released by a PETA spokeswoman.
“PETA’s request comes in the wake of news reports that a Swiss restaurant owner will begin purchasing breast milk from nursing mothers and substituting breast milk for 75 percent of the cow’s milk in the food he serves,” the statement says.
PETA officials say a move to human breast milk would lessen the suffering of dairy cows and their babies on factory farms and benefit human health.
You may now insert your own jokes and analysis.
Does this make me want to buy a bunk bed? Maybe not. But did it introduce me to a url I had never heard of before? Yes. And am I forwarding said url around to others who might want to buy a bunk bed? Apparently so.
But check out this fun and easy game from Bunkbeds.net.
1 minute, 28 seconds
“A Nigerian Muslim court Monday detained an 84-year-old Islamic preacher with 86 wives after he failed to heed a call by local leaders to divorce all but four of them…..The authorities charged Mohammed Bello with “insulting religious creed” and “unlawful marriages” after local chiefs and Muslim leaders gave him until September 7 to comply with Islamic sharia law, which allows a man to have no more than four wives at a time.”
I see it now – “Elimina-wife.” 82 eliminations to get to the remianing 4. Endless possibilities on an International stage here….
Funny clip from Google News. Notice who the headline is slamming.