McCain Ad Placement

by Ken Kensington

After avoiding it for the entire campaign, I decided to check out Obama Girl on You Tube on the eve of Election Day.  I watched a couple of videos (a mildly funny take on robo-calls and one that just seemed like an ad) before stumbling on an Obama Girl/Ralph Nadar video.  I thought it was hilarious, but only because it was Ralph Nadar and Obama Girl.  At one point, Nadar makes a dig on McCain's (self-professed) lack of tech savvy, which is made more humorous by the video ad running on the web page when I viewed it.

In case you're curious, here's the video:

Amazon's Cool, New WindowShop

by Lance Lancington


I just saw this on Gizmodo:

Amazon has a new feature. A visual browsing method that strikes me as a mash up of Amazon, CoverFlow and cooliris.

Right now it looks like it displays bestselling and newly released albums, books, movies and video games -- when you zoom in, it plays a preview.

It's called WindowShop.

Call It, Friendo

by Lex Lexington

I saw this video on Attack of the Show.  It offers a pretty good take on reality show participants.

Down Goes Dempsey! (Update: Linked video has been taken down.)

TESTING...TESTING...TESTING

by Ken Kensington

I'm trying out a different program for updating our blog.  If this works out, it should clear up the backlog of posts and, finally, at long last, get this blog up and running.  In theory.