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As regular readers of this blog know, I contend with a great deal of unwanted commercial copying of my photographs. Most are unambiguous infringements: pest control companies pasting my photos onto their coupons, for example.
But the copyright line gets fuzzier when artists trace my photographs into various derivatives. Copyright law in the United States allows some types of downstream copying under its Fair Use provisions, especially when the copies are used as satire, commentary, or the images are sufficiently modified from the original so as to be transformative. How modified is enough? Well, that's a gray area, and courts have unhelpfully decided these cross-medium cases in both directions.
To illustrate this ambiguity with real-world examples, here are four recent instances where my photographs have been adapted without permission. I have chosen these particular cases because, under various conceptions of copyright, different people may reasonably reach different conclusions.
Infringement? Or Fair Use?
1. The Stock Drawing
source: Stock illustration sold at Dreamstime, by Iskudraite.
2. The Children's Book Illustration
Source: an interior illustration by Emma Stevenson for the book Killer Ants.
3. The Street Artist
Source: Street art in Burlington, Vermont. Artist unknown, photographed by "Metal-Bender" at DeviantArt.
4. The Bizzaro Fly
Source: the header panel for Sunday's Bizarro, a syndicated comic strip by Dan Piraro.
I have my own opinions, of course. I will share these, and their resolutions, in a subsequent post. Before then, I'd like to hear what you think.
Woah! Unquestionably, these are all 100% derivative works. In other words, they all constitute copyright infringement. These artists are sloppy and are not doing their homework. As a rule, you should have multiple references and should be confident enough in your drawing skills to alter the perspective so you're not copying any one pose from your references. Arg, Alex. So frustrating!Link to this
I'd say #2, and after some thought, maybe #4, are infringing.
1. It would be hard for me to say that a cartoon serves the same purpose as a realistic photograph. And then on top of that the eyes/mandible have changed. I'd file this under transformative.
2. Looks like some simple photoshop manipulation or down-sampling of the color space.
3. It is extremely similar. The change of medium is pretty striking however. A lot of meaning in art is contextual, and this obviously have an extremely different context.
4. This is probably the closest call for me. It evokes a very different feeling certainly than the original, which might be considered transformative, but the technical manipulation of the image is pretty simple. Looking at the strip I'm going to come down on the side of non-transformative. It looks like he wanted a realistic picture of a fly to juxtapose with the cartoons, which would mean that he probably should attribute/license.Link to this
I wish I had a research class right now — this would be an excellent example (if you don't mind, I might keep it to use in the future?). I'll be interested to read the comments you receive, though I'll note that the analysis for infringement generally precedes the analysis for fair use. That is, fair use is an affirmative defense raised after infringement is shown (or conceded).Link to this
I think that as soon as you use someone elses work as a template for your own then you need to credit them. To not do this is at best lazy and at worst a complete disregard of the creativity and effort that goes into any art.Link to this
#2 _might_ be infringing. The others are obviously transformative.
#copywrong; the way we handle copyrights should be completely rethought.Link to this
I think the first and third instances are reasonable, while the 2nd is definitely an example of infringement. I'm on the fence about the fourth, but lean towards infringement as well. (Though, even in the first and third instances, credit ought to be given simply because its the right thing to do.)Link to this
I am pretty sure #1 is "transformative". As another commenter mentioned, cartoons are different than photographs, plus the cartoon has a personality, even a sex. (Perhaps I'm being silly, but I think the ant looks female – which is silly….)
As for the rest, I believe they are all infringing, especially #2. I could see someone arguing #4 is not, but I do not see any transformation there.
Not sure what you can do about #2, especially since the photographer really had no way of knowing the street artist copied your work.
Good luck. And I am really ashamed of the system we have in the US. (Life of the artist plus what? 100 years so far?) I wish it could be fixed, but we all know it will not be as long as there are billions of dollars behind the status quo.Link to this
I think #1 is good to go.
#2 is full on infringement.
#3 is damned good for street art, but I can't see image flipping as transformative.
#4 I find iffy. Is it is or is it ain't???Link to this
The thing is it's not so sure thats all of your works are protected. The copyright protection isn't automatic as everybody seem to think, you need originality (or in some cases / some type of work : sweat of the brow). Your creation must be original and in this way simple picture or instant photography or even well thought photography are not protected by copyright. It's important to remember that copyright is the exception not the standard. So IMHO the four picture as photo of reality even with, i suppose, long post traitment to remove what isn't the ant/fly aren't subject to copyright. It would of course be for a judge to decide but its a bad habit to think everything is copyrighted.Link to this
forgot a few words : even some well thought photographies are not protected by copyright (case law).Link to this
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Hi all. This is post number one of The Disney Project. I look forward to sharing my love of Disney with all of you. I doubt I'll be able to update it every day, but then again even if I did have the time I doubt I'd be able to come up with interesting stuff to post day after day for very long. But I intend on adding posts fairly regularly, and I will do my best to make them at least a little interesting. As of day one of this blog there are a few sections: Home (new posts), Walt (info about the man himself), Trips (My Disney trip reports), Reviews (reviews of anything Disney, from movies to restaurants), Museum (info on the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco), and About (a brief bio about my Disney pedigree). Most of them are "under construction" right now, but they will all contain content soon. I hope to add more sections as the blog progresses. One thing I can tell you is, The Disney project will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in me. I hope you enjoy it!
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I was a fan of Olivier Panis as a kid, and a retrospective fan of Jacques Laffite, so I have to say Ligier/Prost.2nd September 2014, 1:36 at 1:36 am #273062
Answered :)
Having thought about it a bit more, if you have the chance I'd suggest putting Road Atlanta, Road America, Suzuka and Spa at the top of your list. I believe they've re-scanned Silverstone, so unless you really want the old version of the track it might be worth waiting to see how they release the new one (I think it's usually full price and they reduce the old version), not sure when that's coming out though.14th August 2014, 12:15 at 12:15 pm #270476
This is starting to look very fishy12th August 2014, 19:55 at 7:55 pm #270326
Here's that SRF race I did on Sunday, I was a bit too cautious after that caddy race if you're wondering why I wasn't defending hard. Worked out for me in the end though :)12th August 2014, 11:48 at 11:48 am #270300
Yeah in other cars it's a bit easier because you can adjust on the throttle more, but the SRF just pushes like crazy on the throttle so you have to hit the apex perfectly and be super accurate when you put your foot down. It doesn't help I'm avoiding 2nd gear here too so I cant let my minimum speed drop, I have to be pretty much perfect to do a fast lap with no 1x.11th August 2014, 22:21 at 10:21 pm #270285
Oh it's a real pain, I was struggling to stay on track most laps. I've gotten better at getting up to speed over the years, the last few tenths always take a while though.
I never got around to racing the Solstice this week unfortunately, I did a Caddy race and got smashed out of the lead which put me off driving for the rest of that day :/. I had a fun race in the SRF to compensate though, currently uploading that to youtube.
I'll probably try again with the Solstice and Caddy next week, and take a week off the SRF unless I'm feeling particularly masochistic. I might do a L79 race instead if I have time to make a set, I think that would be fun at CotA.10th August 2014, 16:59 at 4:59 pm #270251
Does everyone on here have a memory of less than a year? Singapore 2012 anyone? Turn 13 – barely any overtakes there before. That amazing overtake on Bruno Senna, which was overtake of the race, and was a contender for overtake of the season?
The one where he cut the previous corner you mean?
He gets in accidents because he's either too aggressive or misreads his opponents. In my opinion he's only looking better this season because he has a good car and mediocre (and overrated) teammate. Massa was at his best in '08 and '09 especially, since he came back he hasn't gotten anywhere near that form.7th August 2014, 17:40 at 5:40 pm #269653
@fer-no65 Yeah I had a quick go yesterday, the car is actually a lot more stable around there than I expected, a mix of understeery set and traction control I guess. If you go in for qualifying bear in mind the tyres are only good for about 3-4 laps (fastest on first lap but lacks a bit of top speed so it evens out). I managed an 18.1, not sure where people are finding 17.4′s, must be missing something.
I might join you in GTC this week too, love Mid Ohio.6th August 2014, 18:29 at 6:29 pm #269608
How many times have the tyres on the outside of turn 2 eaten you so far @Fer-no65 ? :D4th August 2014, 0:01 at 12:01 am #269455
Just watched the two passes, to me the first one looked fine, Fuoco saw him coming but misjudged the undercut. The second one was certainly pretty bad, you cant move across like that when you're not fully ahead. If Latifi had been slightly further up on Fuoco there could have been an almighty accident.1st August 2014, 17:45 at 5:45 pm #269367
Heh yeah my win ratio suffers from being in the top split all the time. I sometimes get an easy one if I race midweek but usually have to rely on the leaders taking themselves out. Having said that my record so far this year is 5 races, 3 wins, 4 top 5′s and one d/c (yes I've been lazy :P)31st July 2014, 18:21 at 6:21 pm #269058
Ok, I have a rough idea that I'm just going to race for fun this season, so might join you for a few Solstice races @joey-poey28th July 2014, 2:20 at 2:20 am #268517
@fer-no65 The grip levels can vary a lot with the weather, here are the settings and setup I was using http://members.iracing.com/jforum/posts/list/3243916.page (it was two seasons ago so not sure the setup still works). I'm using an old stock Logitech G25 and single monitor.
The L79 is actually quite nice to drive, it's obviously quite frenetic being an F1 car but it pretty much does what you expect, you can really play with it on the throttle which I like.27th July 2014, 21:26 at 9:26 pm #268502
It was a great race today but a bit sour for me only having the highlights to watch. It just makes the strategy so hard to follow in a race like this (they don't mention when they skip laps) and nothing quite builds up with the same energy.
But as I said above, paying Sky only guarantees they have the money to buy out more sports, and the greater share they have the more they can charge for the privilege. I'm worried if the BBC viewers drop too low Sky could get exclusive rights and then I'll be out of options.27th July 2014, 21:03 at 9:03 pm #268500
@fer-no65 Yeah it's tricky, here's a demo lap I did for the world cup earlier this year, I ended up doing pretty well in the race but it took a lot of practice to get consistent laps in.
Nice work, Lime Rock isn't the easiest place to overtake or make up time on. My L79 race went pretty well, finished 47 seconds ahead and lapped 3/4 of the field. Was good training for lapping traffic I suppose :P


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This is a strange one. A patent troll has a patent so diffuse that it is almost meaningless and is suing RedHat over it:
"Network Distributed Caches ("NDCs") (50) permit accessing a named dataset stored at an NDC server terminator site (22) in response to a request submitted to an NDC client terminator site (24) by a client workstation (42). In accessing the dataset, the NDCs (50) form a NDC data conduit (62) that provides an active virtual circuit ("AVC") from the NDC client site (24) through intermediate NDC sites (26B, 26A) to the NDC server site (22). Through the AVC provided by the conduit (62), the NDC sites (22, 26A and 26B) project an image of the requested portion of the named dataset into the NDC client site (24) where it may be either read or written by the workstation 42. The NDCs (50) maintain absolute consistency between the source dataset and its projections at all NDC client terminator sites (24, 204B and 206) at which client workstations access the dataset. Channels (116) in each NDC (50) accumulate profiling data from the requests to access the dataset for which they have been claimed. The NDCs (50) use the accumulated profile data stored in channels (116) to anticipate future requests to access datasets, and, whenever possible, prevent any delay to client workstations in accessing data by asynchronously pre-fetching the data in advance of receiving a request from a client workstation.
It's almost gibberish. The nearest I can gather is that they have a patent on the network cache like Squid or nscd. No doubt RedHat uses such things in its clustering setups. Squid was developed around 1996 and the damned patent was "filed" around 1997.
In the patent application itself mention is made of NFS file caching and BSD4.3. The claim is made that the "invention" improves cache coherency although it does not shed much light on how that works. The filing date is also shown as February 26, 1997.
BSD 4.3 was released in 1986, so nothing here looks innovative beyond the state of the art. I expect RedHat will be able to show:
- the invention is not patentable (obviousness and prior art),
- the invention does not work as described, for example does not work any better than some prior art,
- the invention is essentially no different than a mail-server such as sendmail which was developed around 1979-1980. Sendmail caches mail and synchronizes a bunch of clients via SMTP. POP is another mail protocol. The RCEV operation of POP downloads the e-mail but leaves it on the server/cache,
- the invention is essentially no different than NFS which used a cache even in version 1 from 1989,
- the inventor invented nothing not already in the prior art:"The threshold question in determining inventorship is who conceived the invention. Unless a person contributes to the conception of the invention, he is not an inventor",
- the invention has no written description sufficient to implement the invention. In particular, "projecting an image of data" is not defined ("each NDC site including an NDC that has an NDC buffer, a method for projecting an image of a stored dataset"),
- RedHat does not use it (the preferred implementation requires multiple daemons, long delays which cannot speed anything up), and
- since RedHat is FLOSS, the inventor obviously ignored the violation until now, evidence that there is no violation.
I trust the judge will laugh this one out of court and send the troll the bill for cluttering up the court system.
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"This patent application does not show how to do anything beyond caching. Why does it exist?"
You take a too simplistic view of these things, #pogson. The patent at issue is an improvement on the way that a cache generally worked in the late 1990s, and the narrative describes a number of specific functional improvements over precedent methods.
The logic of the patent is not all that obtuse, I think, and, if someone had demanded the specific functional improvements be made to a cache scheme, a thousand or more developers could each have succeeded in coming up with a satisfactory design, perhaps even more than a thousand. But the point is that someone did it first and got a patent on the specific method used.
My company did that as a common practice and most other big software companies do the same. What I think is wrong with the process is that these patents are not watershed sorts of discoveries as popular thought implies, but rather just descriptions of routine solutions to incremental problems that arise as products evolve. There is certainly a lot of engineering competence involved in coming up with a solution, but the sort of one-man, point in time brilliance of Edison or Tesla or such is no longer the case.
The patent offices of the world do not adequately investigate the notion of non-obviouosness. The patent examiners are not network architects or computer scientists, I think, and the very fact that no one else has come up with the improvement and filed a patent application is used as evidence that the invention is non-obvious. The fact that almost anyone would come up with the solution once it was needed for something in an normal evolution is not considered.
If a company sticks to basic product precepts and becomes an expert in some useful field, they can simply keep their technology to themselves and market their product's benefits to those who see their value. They will easily stay ahead of anyone else who would need to first solve the same sorts of problems and could keep their market leadership as long as their products stood above the others.
Patents just muddy the water and I think that they do negatively affect progress today.
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Maybe you should let the lawyers handle this one if you can't understand what it is supposed to be about.
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi Supreme Court has upheld the state's open carry-gun law, allowing it to take effect after a circuit judge's order kept it on hold about two months.
Justices ruled unanimously that Hinds County Circuit Judge Winston Kidd erred when he found the law vague and therefore unconstitutional.
Earlier this year, legislators passed and Gov. Phil Bryant signed House Bill 2, which says adults don't need a permit to carry a gun that's not concealed.
Several officials, including the Hinds County district attorney, sued to block the law, and Kidd put it on hold just before it was to take effect July 1.
After hearing arguments, Kidd issued an injunction July 12, saying the law was on hold until the Legislature can clarify it.
Justices overturned the injunction Thursday.
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Super Bowl XLVI time: That means the New England Patriots, the New York Giants, and for people in the Midwest, a lot of Super Bowl commercials and rooting against both 2012 champions. More: Pre-released 2012 Super Bowl commercials from SBNation.com.
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The 2012 Super Bowl will go down in history as not only an exciting and electric rematch between the New York Giants and New England Patriots, but it also has earned its place among the annals of television history as well:
Super Bowl XLVI was watched by an average of 111.3 million viewers, setting a new viewership record.— Richard Deitsch (@richarddeitsch) February 6, 2012
Giants 21-17 win in Super Bowl sets viewership record of 111.3 million up a notch from last year.— Richard Sandomir (@RichSandomir) February 6, 2012
Super Bowl XLVI ended with an exciting 21-17 Giants win, and it rightly drew an unprecedented amount of viewers. The previous record of 111 million viewers came from last year's Super Bowl between the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers.
Despite the 2012 Super Bowl's colossal audience, however, the Nielsen rating record of 47.9 ( from the 2011 Super Bowl) still stands, as the 2012 Super Bowl managed only a near-record 47.8 rating.
For more on the Patriots and their Super Bowl run, check out SB Nation's Patriots blog, Pats Pulpit as well as SB Nation Boston. For more on the Giants and their Super Bowl appearance, visit Giants blog Big Blue View and SB Nation New York. For all news and information regarding Super Bowl XLVI, please stay tuned to SB Nation's dedicated Super Bowl hub.
This may come as a shock: The St. Louis Rams are considered longshots to win the 2013 Super Bowl. In their just released odds for the next Super Bowl champion, the MGM Grand in Las Vegas pegs the Rams' chances at holding the Lombardi Trophy at 50-1, which is not even good for worst in the NFC West.
The leader of the division pack is unsurprisingly the San Francisco 49ers, who are listed by the MGM at 10-1 odds, which ties them with the New Orleans Saints for sixth best odds in all of the NFL. Coming in tied with the Rams and five other teams at 50-1 is the Seattle Seahawks, but both squads outpace the Arizona Cardinals, who are listed at 60-1, which puts them as the fifth least likely team to win the NFL.
The list is bookended by the New England Patriots, who are pegged at 5-1, and the Jacksonville Jaguars, who are the ultimate longshots at 150-1.
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No television executive should scoff at an astronomical overnight rating of 47.8— which is what the 2012 Super Bowl garnered— but there certainly will be some head scratching and handwringing at NBC over the fact that, according to John Ourand of the Sports Business Journal, the ratings for this year's Super Bowl were down very slightly from last year's game.
Small correx on the overnights. I'm now being told that it's a 47.8 (not 47.9), which is down a tenth of a ratings point from last year.— John Ourand (@Ourand_SBJ) February 6, 2012
It may be of small solace, but the night's halftime show, featuring Madonna, managed to pull in more viewers than the game itself, which may earn some decision-maker a bonus.
Madonna is more popular than the NFL. Source says the halftime show drew a 48.3 overnight, which is higher than the game's 47.8.— John Ourand (@Ourand_SBJ) February 6, 2012
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The New York Giants triumphed over the New England Patriots by a 21-17 margin in Super Bowl XLVI on Sunday night, and Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning was absolutely outstanding for the champs. Manning completed 30 of 40 pass attempts for 296 yards, one touchdown and zero interceptions. He also authored a clutch fourth quarter drive that resulted in the go-ahead touchdown for New York.
Related: 2012 Super Bowl Final Score: New York Giants Defeat New England Patriots 21-17
That drive began with a big pass play to Mario Manningham which got the ball out near midfield, and from there the Giants were able to work their way into field goal range, and eventually inside the 10 yard line. Ahmad Bradshaw scored the game-winner on a carry from six yards out.
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After their win over the Rams in 2001 I'm constitutionally incapable of feeling sorry for the New England Patriots, but their 2012 loss to the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLVI has to feel a little too similar for comfort to the last time Tom Brady and company loss to Eli Manning—once again the game stayed close all night, just in time for Manning the lesser, with the help of some outstanding catches, pushing the Giants through to a 21-17 win.
Manning, the likely MVP, was 30-for-40 with 296 yards and a touchdown, facilitating an outstanding catch from Mario Manningham down the sideline. It wasn't quite David Tyree's helmet-catch, but what is?
Meanwhile, Ahmad Bradshaw's inability to stop on a dime at the one-yard-line isn't going to make him persona non grata in New York; now he just scored the game-winning touchdown with less than a minute on the clock, which is a much better story to tell when somebody is buying you free drinks.
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The New York Giants started strong Sunday night and built a quick 9-0 lead on New England thanks to a safety and a touchdown drive that ended with a pass from Eli Manning to Victor Cruz.
But New England scored 10 unanswered points in the second quarter, including a short touchdown pass from Tom Brady to Danny Woodhead, and took a 10-9 lead into halftime. In the third quarter, the Patriots extended that lead to 17-9 on another Tom Brady touchdown pass. The Giants put together a pair of scoring drives after that but settled for a field goal in both cases, narrowing the gap to 17-15 as the fourth quarter began.
The game came down to one final drive by the New York Giants, which began with less than four minutes remaining in the game. Eli Manning hit Mario Manningham for a big gain to get the Giants near midfield, and they were able to chip away from there, and eventually Ahmad Bradshaw gave them the decisive margin with a touchdown run with 57 seconds remaining.
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For regular listeners of Coast to Coast AM, Chevrolet's new Chevy Volt Super Bowl commercials offer the greatest enticement yet to spend thirty-something thousand dollars on a car with 40 miles of electric range and a gas generator: If you do so, you will see aliens. And they will tell their alien friends about it, and so on. (Watch the first commercial, in which aliens hit on a Volt owner's wife, here.)
I'd be interested in a spin-off Super Bowl ad where these aliens, who already possess the ability to fly through space, have to use somebody's iPhone to call their friends, but that's probably not in Apple's current ad vernacular. In any case, I really do think this is a good way to explain the Volt's vaguely confusing business model without releasing an especially condescending commercial.
To humans, at least. I'm sure aliens find these commercials impossibly condescending. But they'll have to find a human being with an HDTV in his garage if they want to see them, so it shouldn't be a problem. (Did they find a guy with a garage-door opener first? The world-building on these remains confusing to me.)
The New England Patriots had a minute left to go 80 yards after the New York Giants and Eli Manning came back a little too early, but a dropped ball from Dion Branch and Justin Tuck's crucial third-down sack made their fourth quarter comeback stick as the Giants topped the Patriots 21-17, scoring their second Super Bowl victory against the Patriots in XLVI. Eli Manning was 30-for-40 with 296 yards and a touchdown, while Bradshaw had 17 carries for 72 yards and a touchdown; Justin Tuck had a big safety in the first quarter, forcing Brady to deposit a pass intentionally way downfield.
Ahmad Bradshaw scored a fourth-quarter touchdown to put the Giants on top, but it wasn't quite the cause for celebration you'd expect it to be—the Patriots allowed him to score, giving Tom Brady and company a full minute to make a comeback. Brady was good, but he wasn't quite good enough; three last-chance Hail Marys weren't able to do it, despite a first-down toss to Branch on fourth-and-long.
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GoDaddy has cornered the market for terrible Super Bowl commercials again in 2012, but their fourth quarter ad might have hit new levels of braindead. Made to promote cloud computing, it's basically a remake of that hilarious Schmitt's Gay Beer commercial, only played straight and straight and even dumber. In fact, let's just watch that Schmitt's Gay Beer commercial instead of the GoDaddy one:
Isn't that commercial great? And isn't GoDaddy terrible? That's really all there is to say about that. If you register your domain from GoDaddy, you are subsidizing Danica Patrick's lost weekend and the production of the dumbest, most degrading Super Bowl commercials in the world. Not degrading to women, or Danica Patrick, or minorities, or anything—just degrading to humanity, because one human has convinced other humans that yet more humans will be convinced to buy a domain name by the prospect of seeing some women almost get naked on the internet, where women are naked by default.
But Schmitt's Gay Beer—I mean, that's still great.
We've been responding as rapidly as possible to 2012's Super Bowl commercials all night; here, so far as we can tell, are some early winners, from strong car ads from Toyota and General Motors to—well, really, aside from the car ads things have been pretty weak. In no particular order, some ads you should seek out:
Toyota's Camry: It's Reinvented ad splits the difference between funny-for-everybody and the kind of increasingly dated Old Spice humor that's infected all high-profile reimaginings over the last few years. The baby-time-machine's tone is just perfect. The Chevy Silverado 2012 commercial was extremely well-shot, timely, if you're Mayan, and to-the-point. Even Chrysler's Clint Eastwood-infused Clint Eastwood-infused Imported from Detroit sequel was pretty good, until you stopped to think about what he was actually saying, which appeared to be a patriotism mad lib.
Volkswagen brought back Star Wars to impressive effect, although the metaverse implications are a little staggering.
Aside from that: I mean the Doritos ads were like Doritos ads, if you like cute things that refuse to give up their Doritos. (This time they went cute kid instead of cute animal.)
After an impressive 9-0 start, the New York Giants fell behind the New England Patriots 10-9 at halftime, and now trail 17-15 thanks in large part to an inability to finish off scoring drives with touchdowns. Giants kicker Lawrence Tynes hit a pair of field goals in the third quarter, both of which came in or near the red zone.
New England has been less consistent offensively, but they have found the end zone twice, both on Tom Brady touchdown throws. Brady is 21-26 for 212 yards.
Eli Manning is 20-26 for 178 yards and one touchdown for New York.
For more on the Patriots and their Super Bowl run, check out SB Nation's Patriots blog, Pats Pulpit as well as SB Nation Boston. For more on the Giants and their Super Bowl appearance, visit Giants blog Big Blue View and SB Nation New York. For all news and information regarding Super Bowl XLVI, please stay tuned to SB Nation's dedicated Super Bowl hub.
As promised, the NFL has used its in-house 2012 Super Bowl commercial to promote the safety gains football has made since its debut as a rough-and-tumble college sport that killed people beneath an inexorable flying wedge of bodies. It's really well-made—unfortunately, there's no evidence all the pads and helmets shown off in the commercial have made the game any safer; an increasing body of work suggests they make it less safe.
Here's a relevant ESPN story on it. As pads and helmets make a player feel safer, he's more likely to behave in ways that aren't safe, as anyone who's followed someone in a massive SUV will attest. Apparently it's called "risk compensation," and it is at least a little terrifying to anybody who wears a helmet when he rides a bike.
I don't know what the NFL could do about it, but I am convinced that if football players still worked in leather helmets without pads the game would be slower and the players would be less likely to severely concuss each other at a similar risk to themselves.
So far in 2012 the most entertaining and least aggressively grating Super Bowl commercials have all come from car companies, and Toyota's "It's Reinvented" Camry commercial is one of the best ones yet. What's most impressive is that it seems to have created a version of the infamous and increasingly played-out Old Spice commercial—serious narration, absurd results, Manliness—that appeals to real human beings.
Here's what works about this ad and doesn't work in those godawful Dr. Pepper For Bros commercials:
The extended version adds some Lionel Richie, too, which never hurts.
Look: The Toyota Camry is not a cool car, and it will never be a cool car. Much like a diet soda, it is impossible to convince anybody that they will be cooler because they drive it. But you can make people feel kind of good about driving one, and they appear to have done that here. It doesn't hurt that the 2012 model is much more attractive than the fussy, bulbous last generation.
Last year Chrysler's Eminem-starring Imported from Detroit was one of the most popular Super Bowl commercials of the year. In 2012 they went back to the well, getting Clint Eastwood to deliver a rousing speech on Halftime in America.
By the time it was over, and Eastwood was telling you the world was about to Get It from a resurgent America, it was hard to avoid breaking into a U S A chant and marching off to buy an American car. I think I felt the same way after watching this commercial as I did when Obama announced Osama bin Laden's death.
Then, unfortunately for the dealership, it occurred to me that Eastwood's wordy, repetitive speech didn't seem to mean anything at all. It remains a great commercial, mostly because he's Clint Eastwood and Chrysler's ad people have turned in two great pieces of Detroit malaise cinematography in a row, but if you heard Newt Gingrich deliver this speech you'd probably just wish he for him to go back to talking about bases on the moon.
The 2012 Super Bowl halftime show is over, and here's to Madonna, who, like Paul McCartney after the Janet Jackson incident, had an incredibly easy job of currying public favor after a disaster the year before. All Madonna had to do was not be the Black Eyed Peas, and although bringing LMFAO in was a dangerous shot at being worse than the Black Eyed Peas public opinion immediately afterward suggests this is the most popular Super Bowl halftime show since—well, The Who in 2010, I guess?
Madonna—how she looks, the songs she sings, the people she chose to collaborate with—will receive mixed reviews wherever she goes, but the stagecraft and special effects at the halftime show were extremely impressive; if you look at the wardrobe malfunction show the most striking thing isn't Janet Jackson's nipple so much as just how cheap it looks by comparison. This was the halftime show equivalent of the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Or the Arirang games in North Korea, depending on what you think of "Like A Prayer."
Welcome to the 2012 Super Bowl halftime show, choreographed by Edward Gibbon! Madonna, LMFAO, Nicki Minaj, Cee-Lo, and I think Caligula's skeleton starred in a halftime show that looked greenscreened by glitter, featured Madonna's single—it has the word Madonna in it, a lot, in case you forget—and, mercifully, was not the last thing I saw before dying.
Look, I love history, and I love the western world. But if you're an aging, ultra-decadent pop singer performing at the tail-end of a worldwide depression, I can think of better themes for your halftime show at the most overhyped, expensive event in the richest country on earth than "Late-period Roman Empire, only you're kind of rooting for the barbarians to come in and destroy Western Civilization as we know it."
But what do I know: I didn't like the Black-Eyed Peas' TRON suits and futuristic Guts harnesses either. Apparently I can't be pleased, at least by mediocre dance-pop and (in the case of LMFAO) truly abominable dance-pop, whether it's performed in the distant past or the distant future.
After being completely dominated in the opening quarter, the New England Patriots used some key defensive stops and a late TD drive to take the 10-9 lead at the half of Super Bowl XLVI.
Tom Brady proved to be nearly unstoppable in the second quarter, especially on the final drive in the half, as he completed all 10 of his attempts to lead the Patriots on a 96-yard TD drive. On the touchdown, Brady hooked up with Danny Woodhead for a 4-yard pass on third down. In the opening half, Brady completed 15/18 for 147 yards and the TD. Wes Welker proved to be the primary receiving option, making four catches for 42 yards.
After starting the game 9/9, Eli Manning came back to reality in the second quarter, completing just 4/8 attempts. The Giants have been surprisingly aggressive with the running game, with Ahmad Bradshaw rushing for 44 yards on nine carries. Hakeem Nicks was the primary receiving option for Manning, as he led the team with three catches for 42 yards.
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Enclosed, for your consideration, are Doritos's 2012 entrants into the Super Bowl commercial genre they have pioneered—namely, the Cute Things and Physical Pain class of popular Super Bowl ads. Last year the angry pug was one of the most popular commercials of the big metagame; this year there was a baby slingshot. It involved a baby flying through the air in a very dangerous manner for a snack food.
If I were a literary critic in good standing, I would suggest that there appears to be a clear theme here: Don't try to take Doritos from a cute animal or baby. Just go to the store and buy your own bag of Doritos for like three dollars. I can't emphasize this enough.
Best-case scenario: They take your Doritos and you're the stooge in some Super Bowl commercial: Worst-case scenario: Your shame will be broadcast to 100 million people as you run into some glass or something and break your nose.
For a while I wasn't sure that terrible m&m's ad about playing loud music and being a funny dancing thing that dances lol would have any competitors in the Worst Super Bowl Commercials derby, but Teleflora's ad about—and I'm paraphrasing here—paying a supermodel money and then having sex with her in exchange for that money is unquestionably the worst Super Bowl commercial you will see in the year 2012.
I don't know whether pimps have tried this before, and I'm not a lawyer, but I'm relatively sure it's still prostitution if you offer someone one Sex Coupon in exchange for the services she provides. I'm also relatively sure that if on Valentine's Day you happen to tell the lady in your life, "They say you have to give to receive—super hot sex!"—well, I don't want to spoil it for you. But you'll probably be murdered.
Seriously, do not take any advice this woman gives you, not even if it's to go back in time and buy Apple stock at 19 bucks. The very attractive are different from you and me.
I'm glad George Lucas made a Super Bowl commercial about what people think about Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, opening this weekend for a big-big-screen IMAX engagement 13 years after it originally broke the hearts of Star Wars fans over the age of, say, 14. (At 12 I loved it.) Half of the trailer seems devoted to scenes from every episode of Star Wars except The Phantom Menace, before it finally shows some obligatory pod racers, Darth Maul, and Liam Neeson scenes.
While I'm here, can I say how disappointed I was—even at 12—when Darth Maul, who they relentlessly touted for a solid year leading up the release, died (spoiler alert) like 10 minutes into the movie, not to return for any of the sequels? Before this Super Bowl commercial, that was the simplest analogy for the Star Wars prequels—most people were really excited for the first 10 minutes or so, and then found themselves cut in half by a lightsaber for the last two-and-eight-ninths movies.
I realize that overly sentimental and dramatic Super Bowl commercials are a fact of life, but Budweiser's cinematic celebration of the repeal of prohibition—set to the sounds of The Natural—might be the most ridiculous one in recent memory. Watch it first; it looks great.
Now, your political mileage may vary, but so far as I can tell this is an ad about how life-affirming it was that we as humans were unable to successfully eradicate a drug that has huge external costs to our society at large that the companies making it usually spend on dramatic and sentimental ads designed to sell you more of that harmful drug.
Prohibition was—and really should always have been seen as—a terrible idea. But celebrating the fact that there's no way to make it work strikes me as a less than ideal resolution to a less than ideal chapter in our nation's history. I also like the characterization of prohibition "denying people Budweiser," as though the constitutional amendment mentions "Drinkability" by name.
But the clydesdales finally got to carry something other than Bevo! And that guy had a biplane! So no doubt that was great.
With Eli Manning playing some of the best football of his career heading into Super Bowl XLVI, it should come as no surprise that he and his elite receiving core has had no issues moving the ball against the struggling New England Patriots secondary. Thanks to a couple key plays from the defense, as well as the excellent play of Manning, the Giants lead 9-3 early in the second quarter.
The opening score of the game came in surprising fashion, with Tom Brady being flagged for intentional grounding while standing in the end zone. This resulted in a safety, which gave the Giants the early lead. On the next possession, New York put together an impressive drive, which finished with Manning throwing a touchdown pass to Victor Cruz.
On their first extended drive of the game, the Patriots were able to move the ball down the field, but ultimately had to settle for a field goal. Tom Brady hooked up with Wes Welker and Deion Branch for two big connections on the drive. However, the drive concluded with a 29-yard field goal form Stephen Gostkowski.
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That's it: Volkswagen has gone Super Bowl commercials meta, with an ad that combines a real commercial—a fat dog losing weight and slimming down, much like the no-longer-anathema-to-male-drives Volkswagen Beetle—with some people in a wretched hive of scum and villainy in the Star Wars universe, talking about the Darth Vader ad they ran last year. With—that's right, three layers—the real Darth Vader force-choking some Mos Eisley fiend who dislikes the Fake Darth Vader commercial.
Allow me to sort this out for you: We live in the real world, where we watched Volkswagen do an adorable little-kid-Darth-Vader commercial last year.
Darth Vader lives in the Star Wars universe, where they also watched Volkswagen do an adorable little-kid-Darth-Vader commercial last year, and where they appear to be aware of public opinion toward the ad in our world.
My only conclusion is that we are a world nested inside the Star Wars universe, where they're aware that in our world Darth Vader is a cultural artifact beloved by all and not a terrifying, murderous despot who's turned a broken, bureaucratic republic into a disastrously greedy empire.
Maybe I'm not getting the right message out of this, but so far as I can tell the idea behind the 2012 Chevy Silverado Super Bowl commercial is that if the Mayan Apocalypse is real, you should abandon your family, get into your truck, and drive into a post-apocalyptic nightmare where you and your buds can talk about how your truck is better than a Ford.
Don't get me wrong: It's kind of funny! It's really well made! But if six or seven fortysomething guys are the sole survivors of the Mayan Apocalypse, Chevrolet as a brand will no longer have any meaning, unless it's used to create the new aristocracy of Chevy owners, anointed by their truck-drivingness to hold Ford F-150 drives in a perpetual serfdom.
Badge-engineering concern: Are the owners of GMC's identical full-size trucks going to survive the apocalypse? What about my dad, who drives the mid-size Chevy Colorado—co-engineered by Isuzu, no less. These are the kinds of things Mayans knew way more about than we do, alas.
I have to give the art director types points: Bud Light's first Super Bowl commercial of 2012 is less tacky and bro-filled than their usual ads, and choosing "Run Away's" intro is an inspired choice. But "Bud Light Platinum" is the laziest naming-scheme in the history of lazy naming schemes, especially when the bottle is blue. Consider:
American Express Platinum is platinum-colored. It is one better than Gold, which is one better than—well, Green, but there is, nevertheless, a metal-based hierarchy being established, here. (It's two better than zinc!) Bud Light Platinum is one unit of measurement better than Bud Light—which I'm sure they will tell you is also really great.
Why does it exist? Because Bud Light wants more of your money, and is choosing to try to cut it from their existing customer base instead of getting involved in the hipster-filled, increasingly big-corporation-unfriendly world of craft beers and local specialties. They're hoping, I guess, that people who have more money will decide that they can no longer be seen drinking regular Bud Light, but in my experience the people in this market who have more money just buy greater volumes of Natty Light instead.
That sound you here is Las Vegas making all its money: The first points of Super Bowl XLVI came on a safety, the product of Tom Brady's unlikely brand of downfield intentional grounding, leaving the New York Giants up 2-0 on the New England Patriots in the first quarter. Justin Tuck's pressure forced the call, which caused great joy in the more vengeful sections of St. Louis tonight.
The Giants saw mixed results in their first offensive drive, getting downfield on some nice passes before they couldn't keep Eli Manning off the ground. But I'm willing to bet that if they force a safety every time Tom Brady touches the ball, they'll be in good shape for their second Super Bowl win against the Patriots in as many vengeful St. Louis Rams fan situations.
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If there's one persistent advertising trend in the last five years, besides brands that wish they were Old Spice, it's this: Regular-guy a cappella. People in an office ba-ba-ba-ing a song is as hilarious, apparently, to ad executives as men dressed like women are to British people. The latest signer-on, Hyundai, adds a Gen-X ironized cultural song for added impact, using "Gonna Fly Now" to represent their refusal to back down, their determination to Find A Way, at all costs, to make people forget they made the Hyundai Excel.
The verdict: It's an okay ad! You won't not hate it! (The video is available on their YouTube page.)
But I wish ad execs would get to work on starting some new trends; there's only so much juice left in the a cappella fruit. And if I see that Dr. Pepper Is For Cool Dudes Only Just Kidding But Seriously Old Spice knockoff one more time I'm going to self-immolate in the name of killing irony forever.
The first round of 2012 Super Bowl commercials is here, and Old Navy has gone the fake brand route, suggesting you Dress Like A Guy, but not their tai-chi-performing 80s thirtysomething in "Corporado," which—aside from a flip phone in a holster—is just about indistinguishable from the kind of corporate-casual stuff you could buy at, say, Macy's.
Which is great, but what, exactly, does Old Navy propose men—sorry, Guys—dress like instead? That's more or less unexplained, though if I'm going off what I saw last time I went to Old Navy it looks a lot like what you could dress like at The Gap, only with more fake branding and locations on the front of the t-shirts.
One of the dangers of making viral ads is that people don't necessarily want to go to your website to get advertised to some more. I don't think the average Super Bowl-watching Guy is going to go to Old Navy's website to figure out their alternate solution—particularly while they're trying to prove their Guyness by watching the Super Bowl. "Bro, can you pass the iPad? I want to see what's better than polos and khaki shirts. No, not from an expert, from Old Navy."
St. Louis Cardinals fans watching Super Bowl XLVI just had an unexpected flashback: The New York Giants chose Tinie Tempah's "Written in the Stars," heretofore most famous for its use as the official FOX song of the 2011 World Series, as their run-out-onto-the-field-and-get-pumped song.
Cardinals fans were disappointed to learn that David Freese was not involved in any other capacity.
Odd fact: As famous as that hook has become, the rapper whose song it's in, Mr. Tempah, hardly ever gets a word in edgewise on promos. I'm relatively certain I'll never know exactly what he sounds like, despite hearing his song every day of October and having it stuck in my head every day for a while after that. Wikipedia tells me he's English, and that his album is titled Disc-Overy, which, seriously?
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While everyone has their predictions for how Super Bowl XLVI will turn out, the top NFL writers have made their predictions for who will emerge victorious. With the two teams so evenly-matched, it should come as no surprise that there really is no consensus among the writers.
The one agreement among the people over at ESPN.com is that this will be a thrilling encounter. However, according to Adam Schefter, it will be the New England Patriots that celebrate in Indianapolis:
Adam Schefter: Patriots, 27-16
The Giants are the better and more complete team. But they also have to figure out a way to beat Bill Belichick, Tom Brady and the memory of Myra Kraft.
While the writers over at CNNSI all seem convinced this will be a close game, the majority believe that it will be New England that wins. Dan Banks believes that this back-and-forth game will go down to the final minutes:
Why the Patriots will win: Quarterbacks and head coaches usually do more to determine the outcome of Super Bowls than anyone else, and my gut tells me Tom Brady's and Bill Belichick's motivation level is sky high this week. Something to do with that little upset in the desert at the hands of these same Giants four years ago. Close, back-and-forth game will be decided by a late Patriots field goal, the way New England always wins its Super Bowls.
Super Bowl 2012 time—XLVI, if you speak Latin—has come, and with it another round of Super Bowl commercials and discounted jars of salsa and corn chips. The New York Giants, the New England Patriots—Americans: Are you ready for some being forced to care about football? A mandatory Sunday night party? If you aren't, I offer you this concise bundle of Super Bowl time, channel, odds, et cetera:
Time: 5:30 PM CST. Place: NBC, where, to be honest, they could really, really use the ratings. Odds: The New England Patriots are surprisingly slim favorites, despite having a four win advantage over the 9-7 Giants in the regular season. The possibility exists that betting services hate the Patriots nearly as much as Rams fans.
Commercials: Some Super Bowl ads are already streaming on the internet. Now is your chance to appear clairvoyant in front of your friends and acquaintances, which could be a good thing unless they decide you really are a psychic and it turns out they have mob ties and you have to predict the location of a bomb in the stadium before it goes off and if you excuse me I have a screenplay I have to go write now.
When it comes to the Super Bowl, few things go together better than football and food. And on the day when pretty much everyone goes big rather than go home, that means that somebody in the world is going to create "The Bacon Explosion."
Over at SB Nation, we're rolling out all kinds of recipes and ideas to really mix up your food options for the day. Sure, one can always go the easy route with chips and salsa, but that just seems utterly boring compared to suggestions like country ham and cheddar pretzel bites with jalapeno mustard.
To many sports fans around the country, Super Bowl Sunday is a pretty special day. You might as well have the food that you're eating reflect that, right?
Head over to Patriots blog Pats Pulpit and Giants blog Big Blue View for more on this game. Check out SB Nation NFL for more news and notes around the league.
It's very rare that any sports story can overshadow the Super Bowl during Super Bowl week, let alone another football story, but that's been the case this week with the 2012 Super Bowl. Not even Tom Brady and the New England Patriots going for their fourth Super Bowl victory under Bill Belichick nor the rematch implications involving the New York Giants managed to take precedent over the fate of Peyton Manning, who may have played his last game for the hometown Indianapolis Colts.
With that major storyline, and with the fact that Peyton's brother Eli Manning is one of the other quarterbacks in the game, it figures that Peyton's face will pop up on TV more than a few times on Sunday. But, how many times? Well, if four times or more sounds about right to you, you may want to look into laying some money on the following prop bet:
How many times will Peyton Manning be shown on TV during the game? [Over 3.5]
Over (-135)
Under (-105)
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It is Super Bowl Sunday. Like most human beings in the United States of America on February 5, 2012, I have spent an outsized proportion of my day thinking about that. For perspective, I'd like to take this opportunity to remind you, me, and the other human Americans that in Europe, where I believe they call football American-Rules Soccer, they're busy watching Chelsea vs. Manchester United, a Premier League contest-to-end-all-contests.
I realized that when my good friend Ahearn Alley, a pseudonymous contributor at Bring on the Cats and a fan of making people feel inadequate for not liking The World's Favorite Sport, asked me if I was watching football at this very moment and did not mean to suggest I watch the Rams lose to the Patriots in 2001 all over again. (Because he's not a terrible person.)
He even had a built-in, Super Bowl-related storyline to suggest: Chelsea, a less-storied big-city franchise in blue, taking on Manchester United, a widely loved and hated squad in red. If that means what I think it means, good news! The New England Patriots are losing 3-2 right now!
If you don't have a TV, or if you don't have any friends with TVs, or if you're TV happens to break moments before the kick off of the 2012 Super Bowl, don't worry: NBC has you covered. The network will be streaming the game, which kicks off at 5:30 CST, with features that include exclusive online angles, in-game highlights and the ability to watch commercials on-demand.
This marks the first time ever that the Super Bowl has been officially broadcast online, and one would imagine that this feature will only grow and improve every year from here on out. The network's pregame show will also be simulcast online starting at 1 p.m. CST.
For more on the Patriots and their Super Bowl run, check out SB Nation's Patriots blog, Pats Pulpit as well as SB Nation Boston. For more on the Giants and their Super Bowl appearance, visit Giants blog Big Blue View and SB Nation New York.
Poor Groupon. A year ago they went out of their way to make a daring Super Bowl commercial, and everybody finally decided that that was the Super Bowl in which they were going to say—no, too much! Forget about GoDaddy's creepily exploitive will-she-won't-she-take-her-top-off ads—an ad in which self-important B celebrities pretend to care about self-important-b-celebrity-magnet causes was just too much.
Assuming, then, that LivingSocial doesn't run an ad in which Roger Clemens goes to Arab Spring Training, my last attempt to convince you, the people, that Groupon's Super Bowl commercials last year were more funny than awful: They are not making fun of Tibetan people.
They aren't even exploiting Tibetan people. They're just making a light comment—one I find kind of amusing—about celebrities you don't care about pushing causes they don't particularly care about for their own personal benefit. Timothy Hutton and Cuba Gooding, Jr.! Come on, guys! Leverage and Snow Dogs!
While I'm defending them, though, I should offer a disclaimer: I have never once found something interesting sold for a good price on Groupon.
Super Bowl XLVI is hours away, and already one question has weighed heavily on the minds of Americans who can't wait to see a team from Boston and a team from New York compete in a major sporting event to the delight of TV network executives and Jimmy Fallon: What stupid thing is GoDaddy going to do for its stupid Super Bowl commercials in 2012?
I don't have the answer—if there were one thing I could give America, lord knows it would be that—but I've put some of SB Nation St. Louis's best minds on the question, and our stupid commercial actuaries have decided we're likely to see some of the following scenarios play out:
Somebody looks like they're about to take their clothes off. All their clothes. At the same time. Holy crap! And they're going to put it on the internet. GoDaddy should consider changing their business model to just, like, putting naked women on the internet, if that's even legal. Lord knows it's too hot for TV.
Danica Patrick does something low-quality and degrading. For what it's worth, I think Danica Patrick has every right to use her womanly charms for profit, fame, et cetera—I just wish she weren't doing it on the Super Bowl equivalent of a public access station.
The owner of GoDaddy leers like a really creepy volleyball coach. I'm not really into postmodern literary criticism's intense, comically strident reliance on power dynamics to unlock the Real Meaning of Everything, but this should be kind of obvious: If you're the one paying for an ad in which women take their clothes off, it's especially weird when you appear in that ad.
People you kind of remember are in it. You know, that girl, who was famous? Maybe Nancy Kerrigan and one of those hot tennis players will get into a super-hot slap fight and fall into a vat of salsa. Oh, and domain names.
For the second year in a row I'm somewhat impressed by Chevrolet's ability to get its talking points across in a Super Bowl commercial that is also entertaining, but this year's ad—the 2012 Chevy Volt is so technologically advanced, aliens in a flying saucer show up in a man's garage to examine it—combines that with a weird subfeature: Aliens are apparently equally attracted to the Volt owner's wife. Earth women, beware:
I am a little weirded out about that. I think maybe you should be a little weirded out about it, too, especially if you are an earth woman. In the meantime, people who are still confused about the difference between the slow-selling Volt and the not-as-slow-selling Nissan Leaf now know that it can run entirely on electricity or with the assistance of a gas generator, and that it is supposed to be as exciting as a high-tech toy as it is a green accessory.
They also know not to let their wife out when they go after the aliens. Because those aliens are exactly as creepy as you might expect, even when you're not married to Gillian Anderson.
Look: I get it. It's been a while since I've been fond of the Super Bowl halftime show performer, and I'm not surprised that 2012, which will feature Madonna—as well as Nicki Minaj and M.I.A., whose blood she's been sucking for sustenance prior to the release of her new single, "Give Me All Your Luvin"—on stage, is no different. This continues the Super Bowl's trend of choosing figures who are old enough that they're unlikely to cause a major controversy on stage, one that was broken only when the Black Eyed Peas, who everyone in the entertainment industry is convinced everyone else loves, performed last year.
This is all apparently with the goal of promoting her new album, MDNA, which—and thanks for this, Wikipedia—began when she told Facebook, "I need to move. I need to sweat.... I'm on the lookout for the maddest, sickest, most badass people to collaborate with." Those people, as it turns out, included a French D.J. named Martin Solveig and the executive producers of the Super Bowl.
Granted: Paul McCartney, one the last halftime show performers I truly enjoyed, was performing before Madonna was born. But I wouldn't compare Madonna to Wings, let alone the Beatles.
The 2012 Super Bowl is nearly 48 hour away. NFL fans across the country are readying their best food and preparing to watch the ever-entrancing Super Bowl commercials.
For those who do not remember, these two Super Bowl teams -- the New York Giants and the New England Patriots -- met in a recent championship game, squaring off in Super Bowl XLII in 2008. In that spectacular and surprisingly low-scoring game, the Giants beat the Patriots in a stunning 4th quarter comeback that featured this absurd/amazing play:
WR David Tyree, who caught that spectacular catch, has since retired from the NFL, but the matchup still features a number of returning faces. Both quarterbacks, Eli Manning and Tom Brady, as well as both head coaches, Tom Coughlin and Bill Belichick, return for the encore matchup.
Stay tuned to SB Nation's NFL news hub for breaking news, analysis and commentary on the upcoming Super Bowl XLVI.
Gametime: 5:30 PM CST
Television: CBS
Internet: Online streaming
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My thought is that we are in no place to pass up first round game changing OLine players but at the same time WR is a huge need. My way of looking at it is no use in giving cam more time when no one can get open giving yet the same result as last year. But then again protecting cam is a huge thing and with a good amount of depth at both what would you like to see.
Going WR in the first May leave us a chance to get James hurst in the later rounds or a better guy in the 2nd
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No. 22 West Virginia Mountaineers conclude their 2011 regular season schedule against the South Florida Bulls at Raymond James Stadium, on Thursday night.
The Mountaineers are coming off a 21-20 win over the Pittsburgh Panthers in the 104th edition of the "Backyard Brawl" at Milan Puskar Stadium last Friday. West Virginia trailed 20-7 in the third quarter, but a pair of Shawne Alston touchdowns runs in the second half lifted the Mountaineers to their eighth win in 11 contests this season. For Alston, the two scores against Pittsburgh improved his season to a team-high 10, nearly half of the 21 rushing touchdowns the Mountaineers have this season. Leading rusher Dustin Garrison (655 yards) has five touchdowns.
South Florida needs a win to claw back to .500 on the season. After a 4-0 start, the Bulls have dropped six of their seven games, including a 34-24 loss to the Louisville Cardinals last Friday. The hot start and cool finish to the season meshes with how the Bulls have played this season, outscoring opponents 206-90 in the first half this season, with their opponents outscoring them by a 152-118 margin after the break. The Bulls are being outscored 94-56 in fourth quarters and overtime periods this season.
Game date, time: 8 pm ET, Thursday, December 1, 2011
Location: Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, Florida
TV channel: ESPN
Spread: Mountaineers are favored by two points
Series history: The all-time series is tied, 3-3
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Robert Rodriguez to Direct Predators
Another friggin' reboot? Normally, I'd be pretty disgusted at news like this, but with Robert Rodriguez behind the upcoming "Predator" reboot – entitled "Predators" – there may be some reason for optimism. From IESB.net:
Director Robert Rodriguez has taken on the 20th Century
We've heard the rumblings that this was coming via B-D, but now it's been confirmed. IESB has also confirmed it will be Rodriguez' own take on the original concept and he is in fact not only producing the reboot, he's also directing it.
I don't think Rodriguez will be able to recreate the suspense and feel of the original, but that's probably not his goal. Rodriguez definitely knows how to make fun – and violent – movies, and the idea of Predators mixed with over-the-top goofy violence may just work. I'm sure it'll be better than both of the terrible AvP films, and I'm definitely keeping my fingers crossed that the Predators will get some new weapons this time around…like, I dunno, a plasma cannon that attaches to their crotches.
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This guy was all over the place on Special Teams the first half of the season but has been nowhere to be seen the last three games or so. With all the injuries to the LBs, I'm really surprised we haven't seen him in there anywhere and I haven't heard any discussion about him.
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Adora is a five-peice metal core band from mid Orange-County, California. Stricken by a lack of faith in the scene, Adora has made a charge at letting people know what works for them, without shoving it down any ones throat. Collectively, Adora has been together for the past two years. One year ago, they found a solid front man and have since then solidified the lineup as it is today. Martin, Little Alex, Reid, and Matt have been playing music together for almost four years without the authority of a powerful singer. Through friends, the group was introduced to Big Alex in February of 2003, and realized they all shared the same faith in Christ, and passion to play music, thus creating Adora. A few months after the formation of the band, Adora recorded a five-song demo to send to venues and friends to spread the word of the group. From that came many shows and many new friends, and the basis and respect of those in the scene. Since then Adora has shared the stage with such acts as Sinai Beach, A Love For Enemies, East-West, Anterrabae, Bloody Sunday, Suffokate, and many more as well as recently recording and self-producing another five tracks of melodic hardcore. With no signs of stopping anytime soon, Adora continues to provide songs of hope, of faith and struggle, and passion to kids throughout the scene.
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The Danville Area Community College women's basketball season ended on Saturday with a 65-61 defeat to top seed Illinois Central College at the Region 24 Tournament.
Megan Hiner led the way for the Lady Jaguars with 13 points while Hillary Lively had 12 points and eight rebounds, Kameren Cole had 10 points and Tierra Golightly and Stephanie Lord each added nine points and seven rebounds.
"They were able to cut the lead down to two and we had some shots to win it at the end," DACC coach Kyle Bent said. "The kids played hard, but we could not get the win."
The loss ends DACC's season at 22-10, a far cry from Bent's first season at the helm with only three victories.
"We won 19 games last season and our goal was to beat that total and we did that," Bent said. "To get to the Final Four is a big step for the program and we hope to continue to push the envelope for next season."
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The Williamson County Sheriff's Department landed a big drug bust during a routine traffic stop.
According to the Sheriff's Office, a 2006 Chevy Tahoe was stopped for having a defective center brake light and speeding on I-35.
Heriberto and Hilda Madrid as well as their 1-year-old son were in the car.
Deputies say Heriberto and his wife were acting very nervous. Eventually Heriberto admitted that there were drugs in the vehicle.
After getting consent to search the vehicle, the deputy removed two duffle bags from the back seat. One had 30 bundles of crystal meth, weighing about 91 pounds and the second contained a large brick of marijuana that weighed about 28 pounds.
The street value of the crystal meth is about $1 million and the marijuana is about $20,000.
Herberto Madrid was taken into custody.
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text: With the United States Olympic Team being announced tomorrow I thought it would be fun to throw out some of our own projections on how the squad will shape up. Whoever is the closest will win the everlasting honor in your heart of being correct. Keep in mind David Poile is the general manager so offensively skilled players are strictly prohibited! Only defensemen and grinders allowed. I think the roster below int he comments gives the US versatility to play multiple different styles of game. That first line will be hell to play against. The tenacity and skill combination of Kesler and Parise along with the pure magic of Patrick Kane presents matchup problems for anybody. Then throw out Backes on a second line with JVR and Kessel for some size and more scoring. I could see an arguement for putting Pavelski on line 2, Backes on line 3 for a killer shut down line, and Stastny on line 4. The defense is tough in the bottom pairs. Suter, McDonagh, and Shattenkirk are stone cold locks. I think they should take Yandle as special teams always play a huge role in intrnational play. The rest of the defensemen are selected with the same thing in mind. Guys who can play pk and shut down top forwards. The goalies are semi obvious. The only thing I might take issue with is Howard but as a 3rd you are screwed anyway if he is playing. Would love to see your thoughts and lineup projections!


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BATON ROUGE, La. – LSU Chancellor Michael Martin was appointed Friday by the Colorado State University's Board of Governors to serve as the school's next chancellor. CSU Public Relations confirmed the decision this afternoon.
According to a statement from LSU, Martin announced that he will accept the position of chancellor of the Colorado State University System, which includes CSU in Fort Collins, CSU-Pueblo and the 100 percent online CSU-Global Campus.
"LSU is a great university, and I'm honored to have been your chancellor over the past four years," Martin said, who plans to begin at CSU in August. "Jan and I have made so many friends during our four years here, and LSU will always hold a place in our hearts.
Since Martin was named chancellor of LSU in August 2008, LSU has been ranked as a tier one university by U.S. News & World Report four years in a row, the Forever LSU Campaign was completed and exceeded its goal of raising more than $750 million, and a number of campus improvement projects have been made, including renovations to the LSU Student Union, a new Business Education Complex and a new Tiger Band Hall.
Prior to his appointment as chancellor of LSU in August 2008, Martin served as president of New Mexico State University. Before that, he was vice president for agriculture and natural resources at the University of Florida.
In 2007, he received the Justin Smith Morrill Memorial Award, named after the author of the bill creating land-grant universities, which honors outstanding service on behalf of the land-grant mission. Only six individuals have received this award since it was first given in 1980.
He was also awarded the 2008 Distinguished Leadership Award by Leadership New Mexico. Other recent awards include being named Outstanding Alumnus of Minnesota State University Mankato in 2006 and the NMSU Social Justice Award in 2005.
A native of Crosby, Minn., Martin earned a bachelor's degree in business and economics and a master's degree in economics at Minnesota State University. He received his Ph.D. in applied economics from the University of Minnesota in 1977.
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The Eight Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that its "temporary stay" of the NFL lockout is no longer temporary.
It shouldn't be a surprise that the conservative Eighth Circuit sided with the owners. Make no mistake: There are major political implications involved in the lockout. The owners' side is now expecting a concessions proposal from the players' side by Tuesday, although whether that will come is far from certain. The NFL lockout is in full effect. No mediation or negotiation will occur before June 3, which is the next court date. May 16, 6:19 PM


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CONWAY, Mo. — Thirteen and a half days and 1,910 miles had passed since the first group of runners set out amid the bodybuilders and piercing parlors of Venice Beach, Calif., and now the baton was just around the bend, down a section of Route 66 snaking amid the prairie grass and rolling hills of southwestern Missouri.
Dan Bohannon, 57 and a grandfather of four, tied a bandanna around his head, took a puff from his inhaler, and tried to ignore the butterflies in his stomach. Never in his life, he thought, had he been part of something so epic.