25 Years: Robots and Pop Culture Since The Jedi Returned

The July 4/1,000th issue of Entertainment Weekly celebrates the best in pop culture over the past 25 years. They even call out the top 25 gadgets and innovations that have had the biggest impact on pop culture since “Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi” (1983).
The top 5 on the EW list of [...]

Hey Bebo! You’ve Got Mail!

Dear Bebo parents Michael and Xochi Birch,
Please make sure you’re sitting down before you read this. In recognition of your enduring love in raising Bebo to be a popular child in a talented class filled with MySpace and Facebook, we cordially extend an offer of $850 million to add Bebo to the Time Warner [...]

Obama in 30 Seconds; Yes We Can Create a Commercial

One of my favorite Super Bowl commercials in recent years was in 2007 when Frito-Lay asked the chip-loving public to create an ad for Dorito’s. The winning commercial featured a guy’s clumsy encounter with a girl with the words “spicy, cheesy, crunchy and smooth” (also a description for this blog) dipped throughout the 30 seconds.

So [...]