The Discovery Channel has been running new commercials that preview upcoming new seasons for several of their shows. As in the past, the commercials are well-made and (for me at least) can get you really jazzed up for many of their shows. They’ve obviously got a great advertising team and I wish they’d post these commercials on their own site (where you can now get full video of most of their shows). Instead, we need to hunt around to dig up copies like this one: [ View this video on YouTube. ] The montage commercials they showed last year were…
It might be the stress of several late nights sorting out the taxes, but this email tonight from the TurboTax filing center made me laugh: I feel like a winner: “Congratulations!” it says. Now all I have to do is pay my taxes! I guess at some level I should feel good that the IRS has accepted my creation. The cute icons are a nice touch but don’t go far enough. I’d use the Windows animated file copy dialog as a guide and show dollar signs floating from you to the IRS.
Somewhere along the way, Yahoo! launched a new series of sports blogs and I missed it. I’ve only recently subscribed, but these blogs have good writing, high-quality images (from the sports news services), and even full article content in the RSS feeds. If you’re into NBA, MLB, NASCAR, NFL, or NCAA Basketball, click the appropriate logo below and go check them out.
For a youth basketball league I help run, we’ve set up a Yahoo! Group for announcements and the like. I’ve been banging my head against the wall trying to attach one of my email accounts for the league (info@, and webmaster@), but Yahoo! Groups refused to let me, instead showing those accounts as “disabled”. As a last resort (and this comes from a guy who works there), I contacted customer support who got back to me the following day. Apparently Yahoo! Groups has a restriction that prevents so-called “generic” email accounts from joining, presumably in the fight against spam. Sure…
In this Monday’s San Francisco Chronicle, the Tech section had a teaser heading image, spelling out “BFG” in Scrabble-like letters: I had a quick flashback to the BFG of video gaming days, but alas it was just another article about the popularity of Facebooks apps.