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Best Buy’s Holiday Carollers Make Me Want To Murder
10:00AM Adam Frucci | It’s not even Thanksgiving yet, but already Best Buy seems to have won the “most annoying holiday ad of the season” award. Seriously, try to sit through one of these without squirming around uncomfortably and wanting to punch the screen.
Games
New Sony Ad: Play PlayStation 3, Save a Nazi’s Life
2:00AM Adam Frucci | Apparently, if you play the PlayStation 3, you’ll give a blood transfusion to a Nazi, or a heart transplant to Joan of Arc. What in holy hell do these mean, Sony? More »
Cameras
Sony’s Cybershot Exmor Ad Is Laughably Unfair
10:20AM John Herrman | The best part is, I don’t even know to whom. Future camera buyers? Other cameras? To Sony’s own Exmor-equipped point-and-shoots, which got this instead of a respectable marketing campaign? In any case, this is dumb. Let us count the ways! More »
Games
Sony Promotional Image Shows Some Dangerous Behavior
2:40AM Adam Frucci | Sony’s new press image is all fun and cheeky until that model drops his PSP into the tub and ends up with a seriously embarrassing obituary. [Kotaku] More »
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Joe the Plumber Moves to a Higher Tax Bracket Doing Ads for DTV Converters
7:40AM Adam Frucci | Hey America! Remember Sam Joe the Unlicensed Plumber, the bald idiot that the McCain campaign ineffectively used as a prop during the waning days of the election? Sure you do. Well, he’s milking is unearned public exposure by schilling for some company selling DTV converter boxes to the elderly and uninformed. It’s both sad and funny at the same time, like a dog falling down the stairs. [Gawker] More »
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