A whole lot of new stuff today:
- Sony has announced a new ad campaign, in conjunction with its recent Playstation price drop. The first ad, already on YouTube, is a touchstone in the genre of urinal-based humor (though nothing compared to this.) It's also a bit creepy, especially for something marketed to "13-to-17-year-olds."
- Traditional television antennas are back, brought back to life by those looking to get free hi-definition signals of local TV. If you ask me, this phenomenon has about 95% to do with Alycia Lane.
- My colleague David Thomas writes about how the HD DVD code got broken, and posted on Digg.
- And, in a story that's coming tomorrow, there was an "Ocean's Eleven"-like heist of over $1.5 million in cell phones, of a distribution house called Reagan Wireless. (Sorry, Karol.) Among the haul was over 1,000 phones from the ill-fated ESPN Mobile venture. Deadspin had the best line on that:
"No word yet on suspects, but if you see any shady characters watching dated sports highlights at slow speeds before becoming frustrated and chucking the thing in the trash, call your local CrimeStoppers."Posted by Stephen Silver at May 2, 2007 05:10 PM
that PSP ad was incredibly disturbing on so many levels.
Posted by: LilB at May 3, 2007 10:41 AM