Posted in February 7, 2007 ¬ 11:19 pmh.editor
This is why I love the web: a guy finds a legal loophole for canceling his Verizon contract (they upped their text messaging rates by a nickel per message) without paying the $175 cancellation fee
He then explains how he did it on a site called The Consumerist. Then the article ends up on Digg, where [...]
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Posted in February 7, 2007 ¬ 6:08 pmh.editor
This little Chevy ad from 1959 not only uses subliminal advertising, but makes fun of the whole notion of subliminal advertising.
As an aside, this spot is about 10,000 times better than either of the pitiful spots that Chevy bought on the Super Bowl — for a combined total of, what, $5.2 million for the media [...]
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Posted in February 7, 2007 ¬ 1:45 pmh.editor
Today’s clip is John Hemphill as Happy Marsden on the classic SCTV sketch “Happy Hour”.
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