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In one of the coolest ad campaigns I've seen, GE is making use of TiVo and other DVR technologies. Their Ecomagination campaign contains one-second clips at the end of each commercial that, when slowed down, actually plays out a series of funny slides.

Mark (my roommate) and I spent a few minutes trying to figure these out. I got fed up and checked online instead, and found this site. Check it out. Pretty cool little shorts.

And they seem to be working. On average, viewers are spending up to three minutes trying to decipher the messages. Amazing, really.

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Troyan and I shared some thoughts on the latest episode of Scrubs, which was shot almost entirely as a musical. Scott liked it from the get-go, but I wasn't so sure. It was one of those things, I guess, where you were either going to like it or you weren't. Mark fell squarely into the latter, but again, I wasn't so sure.

At first I really hated it. It wasn't funny to me; the gags were lame and the songs (lyrically, anyway) were even lamer. But as the show went on, I kind of started to dig it. Definitely not a favorite episode of mine, but not too bad... especially when compared to the rest of this season so far.

Also- Scott, if you ever talk about former true freshman Juice Williams like that again, I'll cut you.

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Yeah, totally learning that for parties. All I need is a boombox.

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Or maybe just the day that I realized it. I was watching the Daily Show last night, a show that I used to really enjoy but now cannot stomach (save for Ed Helms), and witnessed Jon Stewart (actor) arguing with Kimberly Strassel (journalist, The Wall Street Journal) about economic policy. Let's review what I've just said: Jon Stewert = ACTOR, Kimberly Strassel = at least somewhat educated. You could see the look on her face. She was asking herself why she would ever put herself in a situation where she would be arguing the most basic points of market economics with a the host of a fake news show who obviously had skipped the day they taught exactly what it means to be a "capitalist society" in college. If he even went to college.

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