This $250,000 Gundam will rock your, uh, socks – Engadget
Look below for my comments on the crystal-encrusted cell phone and how it’s the laziest publicity stunt of all time.  Here it is again, except this time the cell phone is a robot.  Whatevs.  Lazy, lazy, lazy. 

I’d love to link to this article, but the cheapass New York Times has most of its content behind a Magical Mystery Wall.  Anyway, the story is about the company that sells Uncle Ben’s Rice is changing Ben’s image from whatever it was before (slave? sharecropper?) to the “Chairman of the Board.

“’Through the magic [...]

President Bush Attends Radio and Television Correspondents’ Annual Dinner
Hey, Washington press corps people!  Do you ever wonder why an increasing number of Americans think you’re not telling us the whole truth…or any truth at all?  Maybe it has something to do with wingdings like this annual dinner, where you hang out, eating rubber chicken and [...]

Ads Turning Up in ‘Lonelygirl15′: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance
Yeah, I know the article says that 90% of the 200 viewers who wrote in said that they don’t mind product placement in the Lonelygirl15 web show, but I don’t think the audience in general is going to tolerate it for long, especially when the producers [...]

NewTeeVee » Eisner: The Web Doesn’t Change Content
I actually agree with Michael Eisner (assuming that I understand his point, that is) when he says that simply putting something on the Web rather than TV doesn’t automatically make it revolutionary.  Crap is crap and good stuff is good stuff no matter which box it emanates from.  [...]