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• Strike : Its over for the TV Studios

From the Big Picture blog. (a truly excellent blog, I must say)

This will definitely catch your attention. I like how advertisers are really pushing the limits of the technology to catch your attention. I also hate it.

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Yeah, I know. Rag on me for all of the video posts, a sign that I just am too lazy to type up anything. Well here is another one. It seems Blendtec, the maker of those really cool seeming blenders has pulled one over our eyes. According to this fellow, the magnets blended were falsely labeled. I don’t know who to believe, but it does raise a good question of who is checking up on what we see on the internet. Remember people, just because you see a video on the internet doesn’t mean its real. That is unless it is off of bagaki.TV, then you know it’s cool.

I ran across this article on CNET about RFID being used to send drivers of Mini’s a personalized message on billboards as they drive past. I think it is a pretty novel marketing idea, but at what cost? This will be fine and dandy until some jerkoff tries to take a picture with their phone at 60mph and kills someone because they weren’t paying attention. Then I will be pissed off. The only problem is I won’t know who to blame.

The boards, which usually carry typical advertising, are programmed to identify approaching Mini drivers through a coded signal from a radio chip embedded in their key fob. The messages are personal, based on questionnaires that owners filled out: “Mary, moving at the speed of justice,” if Mary is a lawyer, or “Mike, the special of the day is speed,” if Mike is a chef.

And what is with the big insurgence of creatively fresh billboards and large-scale advertising mediums. I have been noticing a lot of companies are starting to alter the urban landscape with huge testaments as to why their product is right for you.

What does the flux capacitor have to do with blenders?

More subliminal goodness via The Food Network & McDonald’s brand Heart Attacks ™