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This Is Truly Great Advertising. Seat Belts Save Lives.
We’ve been told over and over again that seat belts save lives, however not everyone uses them. This ad, without any words, is one of the best I’ve ever seen.
LOST – The Final Chapter
Only 18 episodes of LOST remain before all our questions are answered. Is it Ben or Lock who is in charge? Will they ever get their life back? Do they want it? Did Juliet really die? Who is Richard? What does the Dharma Initiative have to do with all this? And so many more.
With the time travel, black smoke, and all around random oddness over the years, it makes me question how this could all end. I’m a little skeptical that LOST can have a satisfying ending, but that’s J.J. Abrams job. To be honest, I didn’t think I’d still be this addicted to the show either but I am. So maybe it’ll have that amazing ending we are all looking for.
WCCO News Comes To The iPhone In Style
It has always amazed me how news stations can spend thousands on new sets, fancy graphics and anything to get more viewers on TV, but their website usually suck.
Getting the local news on an iPhone or iPod Touch meant loading an overly busy, and usually slow, website or a very basic, and usually ugly, mobile version.
Now however, WCCO, the local CBS station, has come out with an iPhone application that is beautiful! See for yourself.
WCCO iPhone App
WCCO Mobile Website
WCCO Website
Cookie Monster Giving Up Cookies? I Doubt It.
Growing up, Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster was all about the cookies. He was a cookie monster after all. But now a days there is a big healthy eating push and somehow, a big blue muppet has more say in what kids eat than parents. Course that could be because the parents sit the kids in front of the TV all day.
Anyway, Matt Lauer did an interview with Cookie Monster to get all the details. Is he giving up cookies? Is he going to be the Fruit Monster? Watch and find out.
SNL’s Hilarious Holiday Balls Sketch
Back in 1998, Saturday Night Live did a very funny sketch about an NPR radio show where they interviewed a guy named Pete Schweddy from a bakery called Seasons Eatings who makes delicious holiday balls.
Take a look:
The funny stuff doesn’t get going until about 2 minutes into the video so keep watching. 
Prop 8 Musical – Gay Marriage Will Save the Economy
See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die
Star filled mini musical on Prop 8 and how it’s possible that gay marriage could bring in a lot of money to save our economy.
Give a Little Love
Have you heard about Idol Gives Back? More than likely you have. Have you donated? The money goes to help kids in our country and others have a better life. Helping them out with things like books, safe places to live & play and medication.
It’s easy to give back. You can donate online, by mail or by phone. Details on the American Idol website.
You can also just open iTunes, click on the Idol Gives Back banner and purchase some music. Songs from Snoop Dogg, Fergie, Carrie Underwood, Miley Cyrus, Heart and more are available. That’s a pretty simple way to donate.
Weekend Update: Firefox 3, TV, Software and More
I thought I’d write a random post with some of what’s on my mind this weekend.
- I’m now running Firefox 3 betas thanks to MultiFireFox.
- MidnightFox was updated the other day with incorrect buttons. Oops. That has been re-uploaded and should be made public soon.
- yExplore and GA? have been updated for Firefox 3. Actually, for the beats not the official release. That’ll happen when the final release comes out.
- Now that I am running Firefox 3, I can start theming it.
- Just started to watch Entourage. It seems like a pretty cool show.
Hulu – Who Knew It’d Be So Good?
I’ve been a member of Hulu for a few weeks now and I have to say that I’m quite impressed with it. The TV networks have really come together to create one great solution for internet TV.
Hulu has a clean interface and is user friendly. It’s not over done with ads or extra stuff. It’s been streamlined and the only thing that could make it better is if the site was created with a black background and not white. That’d make the shows look so much nicer.
