Archive for April, 2006

I finished read my first Steven King book, Cell. I know that King is kind of a weird guy. I know hist other books and movies have been pretty wird. You would need a twisted mind to come up with some of these stories. But what really tweaked me about this book was blatant product placement. I have a hard time believing King was responsible for it, but it was distracting. Here are some examples:

Ok, so you tell me, are we trying to tell a story or sell products. Is this a book equivalent of a subliminal message? It just really looks bad. The story was alright, but all these ads just honestly pissed me off. I paid full price for the book just to find out the cost was offset by a whole bunch of strategically placed ads.

You know, I wonder, when editing the book, did the publisher look for opportunities to place products or was the story actually written with the product placement in mind?

Now, I could be wrong about this whole thing and it’s just a “coincidence”, but I doubt it.

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I’m all for making money on products, but come on, do we really need huge ads all over the place? Yahoo! Mail has all these large size image ads. If they were text ads I wouldn’t care so much. Look at the different between Yahoo! Mail and Gmail. I’ll stick with Gmail for now.

Having to start at the rear of a NASCAR race isn’t an easy thing to over come, unless of course you’re Tony Stewart. Although 2nd place is always the first loser, I still give Tony credit for finishing beyond 10th. He stayed at number 5 in the points. That’s also not bad.

Wow, this worked really well. I just changed the Content Preference to Yahoo! UK and I was in. Thanks for the hack.

Get in on the Yahoo! Mail beta - Lifehacker

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Even though New Orleans has been through hell over the past fwew months, it hasn’t stopped the famed New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. This could really put some life back into a city on the verge of death. Take some time to learn more about this festival here:  Jazz Festival in New Orleans.