This is very neat: Someone took the 1986 movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and ran all the parallelisms with Matthew Broderick’s reprise for the 2012 Super Bowl. It was a great job, although Ferris is not Ferris anymore.
Jimmy Kimmel, my favourite late night host and prankster extraordinaire, wickedly asked people to post videos of them turning off their TVs during the Super Bowl while everyone in their home was watching. Hilarity, curse words, groans, madness, confusion and screaming ensues. This is so good. Who cares about a game anymore? More »
If you watched this year’s Super Bowl, you probably noticed one thing: Madonna looks good for a 53-year-old. Oh, and also, the commercials sucked. Screw Brady and Manning, where the heck is the creativity, ad people? You guys are boring me. I need something more than King Elton John and moonwalking dogs. More »
Over in the US, 55 IT specialists will huddle together in a dark room to keep company’s website afloat on the biggest day of its entire year, since it’s going to be bombarded by millions of ravenous fans. But the company they work for isn’t the NFL. More »
You know Apple’s 1984 commercial. You’ve seen Apple’s 1984 commercial. Heck, it’s widely accepted that the 1984 commercial is one of the best ads of all time. But did you know it was almost cancelled by Apple before it ever aired? More »
It’s about .co domain names! It has girls in it! Danica Patrick! Jillian Michaels! Bodypaint! And… it predictably teases you into going to GoDaddy’s website to “see more”. Oh yeah, and it predictably sucks. More »
For many, the big-budget ads shown during the American Football Super Bowl have grown to be just as entertaining as any on-field action. And here’s Samsung’s effort, which continues on from that ‘Next Big Thing’ ad campaign. Watch for yourself. More »
America’s biggest television event, the Super Bowl, is going to be streamed live to computers and mobile devices for the first time ever. Football! Everywhere! Yeah! Along with the Super Bowl, fans will get to peep NBC’s Wild Card playoff games and the Pro Bowl (snooze) online too. More »
Everyone loves a great jet flyover! Except when you can’t see the jets, because you’re underneath a retractable dome. That’s retracted. Which is exactly what the Navy spent $US450,000 of American tax dollars to do on Sunday. [Washington Post]
