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Weirdly, we seem to have many more banned Super Bowl commercials in the running this year, maybe because in the age of viral marketing getting banned is better (and cheaper) than getting aired. For instance, the only ad from the big game last year is that PETA spot, and it didn’t even get shown. It [...]

Most years nothing exciting happens for all eight hours of Super Bowl. Every so often, crazy things take place during commercial breaks, half-time shows and, very rarely, during the game itself. Watching this vidsticle of the Top 10 Super Bowl Plays of All Time, it’s hard to not think that about half of them are [...]

The Pittsburgh Steelers won a football game yesterday.
Michael Phelps admits to holding the smoking bong.
The aliens of Hulu stake claims on viewers’ mushy brains.
In case you missed the other Super Bowl ads.
Obama says most of our troops will be out of Iraq within the year.
Facebook cashes in on user data.
Google to map the ocean floor.
Will Apple make [...]

Part of why we missed yesterday’s Super Bowl was because our TV is rather pathetic and wasn’t really up to the scale of the action going down in Tampa (we also doubt it would have known what to do with all the 3-D craziness). We’ve now resolved to acquire a better TV, and are dedicating [...]

We didn’t really watch the Super Bowl this year, but we did watch how the event’s logo was updated into a sweeping, dynamic, green and blue vintage composition from last year’s unimaginative chunky neon red and blue block. We love regularly updated logos (the NBA All-Star Game used to have awesome logos), so we really [...]

Famously, this year advertisers devised one second-long spots for the Super Bowl, foregoing any kind of narrative or gimmick for maximum impact spending slaps. We don’t like this. We think ads should at least be engaging, and ideally will build self-referential meta-narratives across different spots as they deploy their campaign (like Skittles, we love Skittles). [...]

Onesie here, back for another edition of Listicles’ weekly sports column Sporty Saturdays. I’ll be honest, it’s been tough keeping up with all my writing assignments amid the recent rush of major pro sports events. There were the NHL and NBA All-Star Games, now Super Bowl Sunday is upon us. With all the freelance mascotting [...]

Super Bowl weekend is at hand, and like those scenes in disaster movies where everybody realizes they need to stock their bomb shelters with food, the grocery stores will soon all be looted of appropriate edibles. So check out these 9 Recipes for the 2009 Super Bowl and get yourself to the supermarket before they’re [...]

Blagojevich impeached, begins stages of grief with denial.
Pot smokers demand legalization of marijuana to save the economy.
Sports fans erect intricate snack food stadium.
Woman who just birthed octuplets already had six children.
Artist draws portrait of Obama with an Etch-A-Sketch.
Kittens cruise on a Roomba.
PETA’s Sea Kitten Campaign thwarted by steak.
Mad Men choose their nouns and adjectives wisely.
Kobe Bryant [...]

I remember one of my favorite parts of the Super Bowl growing up was sitting around with my family and the other families from the neighborhood and screaming approval or disapproval of the commercials. Super Bowl ads for me will be looked at one day as one of our time’s most important artforms, our most [...]