Comcast Apologizing for Super Bowl Porn with $5 Discount?

Everybody has a price, even to let their kids watch a waggling penis during the Super Bowl. But I think that price is more than $5, Comcast. More »

Prank of the Year: Comcast Tucson Airs Graphic Porn During Super Bowl (NSFW)

Tucson, Arizona was probably not the best place to watch the game last night. Partly because of the disappointing result, but mostly because of the huge, flapping penis. More »

NBC Explains Why We Won't Have Headaches Watching 3D Super Bowl Ads Tonight

Advertisers promise "moving" 3D cameras will keep our eyes from jumping out of our skulls and running away in pain during the Big Game. Let's hope so, as there are two such ads planned tonight. More »

Star Trek Super Bowl Trailer Seething With Captain Kirk's Youthful Angst, Hormones

One. More. Trailer. This final dive into the Super Bowl movie geekfest involves a captain, pointy ears, and the J. J. Abrams touch. It's Star Trek! Thirty seconds of updated modern Trek, to be precise. More »

G.I. Joe Super Bowl Trailer Doesn't Really Feel Like G.I. Joe, You Know?

Hey, while we're at it, let's take a look at the G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra ad that's going to show tonight during the game. It also features explosions and sexy women, and... dialogue. More »

Intense Transformers Super Bowl Trailer 'Accidentally' Leaked Early

Here's the multimillion dollar 30-second Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen ad that's set to run this evening during the Super Bowl. Explosions, bad guys and sexy, sultry Megan Fox—all there. More »

The Tech Behind NBC's Super Bowl Broadcast: They'll Be Using Cameras

NBC's pulling out all the stops for tomorrow's big game, and that includes upping the tech aspects of their broadcast. They're rewiring the stadium for fiber-optic cable, and their collection of cameras is awfully impressive. More »

Super Bowl Security Uses Microsoft Surface For Coordination, Holding Up Nacho Bowls

The people in charge of Super Bowl CIVIII, or whatever they're up to now, are going to be using Microsoft's Surface to coordinate and view the goings on in Tampa this Sunday. More »

1984 Macintosh Ad Still Rocks Our Socks 25 Years Later

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the perhaps biggest advertisement in history. One that generated millions in free coverage and still does today: 1984—presenting the Apple Macintosh—is still a gem that leaves most people speechless. More »

Mac Chick of the Month is the iTunes/Pepsi Girl, Mandy Amano

Context: The Super Bowl iTunes/Pepsi ad from 2005 featured a cute girl by the name of Mandy Amano who set the internets ablaze with her dancing. Websites such as thatpepsigirl sprang up just to keep track of her comings and goings. Wired's Leander Kahney, whom Silicon Valley sister site Valleywag thought was Fake Steve Jobs for a couple hours, even called her the new Ellen Feiss. That's quite an Apple rep to live up to. More »

Top 10 Super Bowl Ads, According to TiVo Eavesdroppers

Whether we like it or not, TiVo receives second-by-second audience measurement data about what its users watch, and that was no exception during Sunday's Super Bowl. That's how the company came up with its top 10 list of commercials, as measured by the amount of trick play features (rewind, fast-forward, and pause of live television) used during each commercial. More »

Update on NFL's Panties: Still Bunched

Responding to what happened a couple days ago, churches around the country have put the kibbosh on "traditional" Super Bowl parties while the NFL continues to put the fear out, "standing by its interpretation of copyright law." Apparently, enough private homeowners are worried about Ray Lewis busting down their door that Slate came to the rescue, explaining the "copyright law" the NFL keeps referring to.

The 55-inch limit cited by the NFL applies only to public showings of the Super Bowl, not private gatherings. According to U.S. copyright law, Josh is in the clear so long as he doesn't take his gigantic TV to a public place, or invite "a substantial number of persons" to his house—more than a normal circle of family and social acquaintances.

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Super Bowl Dolphins Stadium Site Hacked, Spreading Malware

Super Bowl fans who are looking up info on the Dolphin Stadium site from a Windows machine may want to make sure they're using Firefox instead of IE. Apparently the site's been hacked and is hosting two known Windows Security flaws. More »

NFL Gets Its Panties in a Bunch Over Jesus and Big TVs

In a truly noble move, Fall Creek Baptist Church in Indianapolis tried to bring football and Jesus together on Super Bowl Sunday, before having its plans sacked (sorry, obligatory pun) by the NFL. More »

Super Bowl Ad Watch: LG Shows Us Its Set, Releases Ad In Its Entirety

We showed you a 15-second preview of LG Canada's Super Bowl commercial the other day, just a teaser for the real thing which will air on Sunday. Now, the company has decided to release the entire spot for your perusal. We like this one a whole lot better than that silly teaser. Show us your set, indeed. – Charlie White More »

Sneak Peek at CBS' High-Def Super Bowl Gear

We know you'll be watching the Super Bowl in HD come February 4th, but ever wonder what it takes to bring you this colossal event in glorious high-def? Well, the folks at CBS wanna tell you as they've hired over 500 staffers, 47 HD cameras, and even went through the trouble of replacing the lights at Miami's Dolphin Stadium all in the name of high-def. But at the top of their tech list this year is a new super-slow motion camera called the Phantom V10 which has the ability to capture 2,000 frames per second. The camera, which is made by Vision Research, will be joined by six of Sony's latest super-slo-mo camera systems and an army of robotic, unmanned cameras. Enough gadgetry to make you a football fan—even if you're not. – Louis Ramirez More »

Super Bowl Ad Watch: LG Canada (?)

Yes, the Canadian division of LG Electronics has pony'd up the hefty fee to have a commercial air during the Super Bowl. For those just waking up from hibernation, the Super Bowl is arguably the biggest advertising event of the year, so it's kind of a big deal to have a commercial during the event. This spot will kick off a retail campaign from LG called "Complete Your Set" that focuses on having flat screen TVs and home theatre systems. More »

Apple Announcing Beatles Catalog During Superbowl?

Our estimate of February 14 for an Apple + Beatles combination seems to be a little off by about a week and a half. The Toronto Sun says Apple's planning a Superbowl commercial announcing something, which may or may not be the partnership between Apple and Apple. More »

Win a $100,000 Diamond Encrusted Pepsi Can to Decorate Your Refrigerator

The Super Bowl is coming up on February 4th, and along with it all those ludicrous promotions, including this $100,000 Super Bowl Edition Pepsi can. It's inspired by the coveted Super Bowl ring worn by the winners of the big game, and it's made of solid sterling silver with dozens of diamonds, rubies and sapphires spangled across it. More »

Meanwhile, at Deadspin: Live at Super Bowl XL

Our brawny brethren at Gawker Media's sports blog Deadspin are going to the Super Bowl—without tickets. We're as unsure as Deadspin's A.J. Daulerio as to how he'll manage to finagle a way into the big game, but that's half the adventure. (The other half is making it out of Detroit without the desire to burn something to the ground.) However it pans out, Deadspin is getting all multimedia, with real, live video updates, including inexplicable captions in mock Japanese. This is what happens when you let a football fan loose on the mean streets with a copy of iMovie. More »