Scariest...30 seconds...ever...

*shudder*

The new Lysol ad

Swear to God, I just saw a Lysol ad that began with a shot of fruit arranged on a closed toilet seat cover with a knife, accompanied by this voiceover:

Fact: Your cutting board has more bacteria than your toilet seat.

And underneath, the following disclaimer:

When used as directed. Water rinse required.

They don’t mean what I think they mean…do they?

iTunes 4.9: Oh, yeah, it rocks that hard.

I’m speechless. This just rocks. Thank you Apple. Thank you so much.

I’m amazed at how much easier this makes life. Mind, I’ve been using an old free beta of PlayPod for a long time now, and it sucks. In fact, things have started breaking. I don’t know how that works.

Go check out iTunes 4.9 if you haven’t yet. It’s sweet. Though it’s sad to see a Z100 podcast…

Hey, everybody!

Another line of the day

Didn’t realize this would be a feature when I posted one yesterday, but I can’t resist. This is the signature of thetraveller over at the Richard Vobes Radio Show forum:

Don’t you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence?
There’s one marked ‘Brightness’, but it doesn’t work.

Update: Credit where credit is due. Looks like this quote’s from Steven Wright. I should have known. :)

And the line of the night is...

From tonight’s Law & Order, during examination of a famous porn star’s murder scene:

“The porn world is going to be in mourning tonight.”
“I wonder what they fly at half-mast…”

George W. Bush vs. The RIAA! Someday, Someday, Someday!!!

Downhill Battle wants you! According to recent articles, Bush’s iPod contains what amount to pirated tracks copied from a staff member. What can we do? Encourage the RIAA to do what’s right. Downhill Battle have registered the domain, now it’s up to you.

Do you have what it takes to build SueThePresident.com?

Markdown vs. Blogger (Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!)

I’ve started using Markdown to write my blog entries. If you haven’t tried it yet, and you write any sort of content in HTML, check it out. It’s an easy markup for basic content formatting that converts to XHTML. Very nice.

There’s only one problem with it: it handles paragraphs wonderfully. That means that the line-breaks Blogger substitutes automatically for every carriage-return are superfluous. No problem, I say, I can turn off that substitution. And I did.

So if you happened to stop by in the last ~12hrs, you may have noticed that none of my previous posts had line breaks anymore. Great. I had to go back and fix them up. Thankfully it didn’t take much more than running them through Markdown in most cases. I ignored anything that had run off the front page, though, so for now some of the archives are going to be harder to read. My apologies. :)

Unique?

Just turned on the TV. There’s a man standing, facing the camera, in a dentist office. The dentist and his staff are at work behind him. The man speaks:

This is Dr. [so-and-so]. He’s a 1-800-DENTIST member. That makes him unique.

The ad goes on from there.

Er, being a member of your organization makes him unique? You mean he’s the only one? So if I call 1-800-DENTIST I’ll get his office? Hardly an association you’ve got going there with just the one unique member.

These advertising copywriters literally drive me up the wall!

Love spells with a money-back guarantee?

That's right. California Astrology Association offers spell-casting—love and otherwise—with a money-back guarantee:

CAA's Unconditional Guarantee
For thirty-five years we've stood behind our unconditional one year guarantee: Every product and service we offer is guaranteed to work or your money back. Period. No questions asked.

So...who wants to try it out and report back. Personally, I'm not trusting anyone who differentiates between "love spells" and "wicca spells"…

Who was on Leno last night? He's not telling.

That’s right. Unless I’ve missed something, The Tonight Show’s website doesn’t say who was on the show last night. It lists who’ll be on next, of course; in fact, it has info on the next five shows. Yes, there’s a “past shows” page, but those pages are compiled from each week’s shows, and they’ve only put together pages up to the week of May 16! That’s three weeks ago! So much for show notes!

This is what NBC and other networks seem not to get. The webpage should be for show notes—a recap of the show and extra information on things that came up. It is not the place to advertise for the show. Why? Because no one goes and looks up The Tonight Show’s website if they’re not already interested in the show!

It’s a classic case of trying to pull in an audience at the cost of ignoring the audience you have. It’s like schools that care more about admissions than enrolled students. It’s nice to know that NBC appreciates my viewership so much.