What the heck is up with the Sony Vaio ad on the front that looks exactly like a post except for the border and a small label that says Advertisement?
Here's the text from the ad, that links to a Vaio-P tag search on your site at the end:
Sony® VAIO® Lifestyle PC: Verdict? Awesome.
At just 1.4 pounds, a 1.33 ghz processor, 2gb of RAM and more, this notebook is powerful enough to get us excited and small enough to keep us that way. Read more of our coverage here.
Oh, really? Awesome?
Here's the conclusion from the actual review by Adrian:
As for my final verdict, the Vaio P is an undeniably attractive, fun, exciting gadget on design alone, but I'm not quite sure it lives up to its marketing hype or its $900 starting price-ours as tested was actually $1200. The Sony Vaio P works well as a machine for the living room or kitchen, and for style reasons fits well in those environments and is easily stashed. But it won't replace your workhorse laptop, not even on a part time basis, due to graphical limitations, an inability to run resource-heavy apps and that damned issue with the keyboard and mouse.
Doesn't sound too awesome to me.
This advertising is terrible. It gives a false impression and blatantly lies about YOUR OWN CONTENT.
Please, tell Gawker to end it. For your own credibility.
Oh god, I just discovered you can link it as a post.
I'm not sure how far that thing is away from the front door of that house, but if it fell over and engulfed the porch under a few feet of snow, I don't think I could contain my laughter.
When I was a kid we made a snowman and then painted him with food-colored water in a spray bottle. Worked GREAT. This is cool but would be awesome with a good paint job.
When we bought snowglobes in Disney years ago they all came with a clear warning: do not place in direct sunlight, the globe can act as a magnifying glass and create fires.
We always made sure they were in a cabinet out of direct sun. Unless we wanted to roast marshmallows. (we have no fireplace)
I wish this was for those inflatable snow globes tacky people put on their front lawns. I can't decide whether or not I want those recalled, or the houses the decorate to be incinerated. With minimum loss of life, of course.
@OMG! Ponies!: I'm still bummed by the story of the guy dressed up as Santa and shot the 8 year old girl in the face, then burning the house down. There's no going back after that.
@OMG! Ponies!: C'mon, guys, let's keep this happy. Ugly holiday decorations are finally exacting their revenge on people.
But yeah, if I were the family, I would wish he hadn't killed himself so I could hunt him down and cut him into pieces, slowly, starting with the extremities.
In HS I dated a girl that worked with me at a supermarket. We did it on our break one time in the freezer in the storeroom where the ice cream is stored before it goes out to the sales floor freezer cabinet.
It was exciting because we were banging at work, but I'm in no rush to do it again in a freezer (or an ice-sauna). Remember the scene from 'A Christmas Story' with the flagpole? That's what happens when you touch wet things to frozen things. Not good. We basically ended up doing it standing up with her bent over, but she still had to go back to the cash register with her hands all frozen and red.
@EBone: I've had sex in a very cold pool, and on a metal bench at a tennis court in a public park on a very cold winter night. I imagine an ice sauna wouldn't be much colder and the two cold experiences I've had weren't at all uncomfortable.
I fail to see how the tounge to a flagpole scenario ties in, however. The only wet parts touching anything are the obvious, and if your saying those will get stuck together I'm going to have to raise my BS flag.
Now, your skin doesn't have to be very wet to get stuck to ice, but if you don't know that by now and are pressing against a block of ice to hold yourself up, then the red hands are probably well deserved.
@.king: No, what I meant was that wet things, like say her ass, pressing up against cold things, like say the wall of the refer cabinet, which has freezing conduit behind it, will stick together.
Your tennis bench will get much warmer just by you sitting on it, where the sides of a refer box are continually having cold applied to them by the freezing conduits, and will stay MUCH colder.
02/06/09
What the heck is up with the Sony Vaio ad on the front that looks exactly like a post except for the border and a small label that says Advertisement?
Here's the text from the ad, that links to a Vaio-P tag search on your site at the end:
Sony® VAIO® Lifestyle PC: Verdict? Awesome.
At just 1.4 pounds, a 1.33 ghz processor, 2gb of RAM and more, this notebook is powerful enough to get us excited and small enough to keep us that way. Read more of our coverage here.
Oh, really? Awesome?
Here's the conclusion from the actual review by Adrian:
As for my final verdict, the Vaio P is an undeniably attractive, fun, exciting gadget on design alone, but I'm not quite sure it lives up to its marketing hype or its $900 starting price-ours as tested was actually $1200. The Sony Vaio P works well as a machine for the living room or kitchen, and for style reasons fits well in those environments and is easily stashed. But it won't replace your workhorse laptop, not even on a part time basis, due to graphical limitations, an inability to run resource-heavy apps and that damned issue with the keyboard and mouse.
Doesn't sound too awesome to me.
This advertising is terrible. It gives a false impression and blatantly lies about YOUR OWN CONTENT.
Please, tell Gawker to end it. For your own credibility.
Oh god, I just discovered you can link it as a post.
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Seriously?!
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Which brings up a question - does adblock screw with the host site's revenue? Does my visit to this site still count as a hit for the ad?
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12/27/08
We always made sure they were in a cabinet out of direct sun. Unless we wanted to roast marshmallows. (we have no fireplace)
12/26/08
12/26/08
Defective products burning down your home
The family dog gnawing at a sparking wire,
And your happy holiday blown
And so I'm offering this simple phrase,
To kids Christian, Muslim, and Jew,
Although its been said many times, many ways,
A Merry Defective Christmas to you
12/26/08
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12/26/08
But yeah, if I were the family, I would wish he hadn't killed himself so I could hunt him down and cut him into pieces, slowly, starting with the extremities.
12/26/08
I still don't have my unicorn. I still don't have my Valkyrie which was to ride astride my unicorn. But I have this wonderful vision in my head.
Happy holidays all.
Now gimme my goddamn unicorn!
12/26/08
12/26/08
Because that's what I asked Santa for. Santa never delivers for me.
12/26/08
The snowglobe.
The snowglobe is on fire...
We don't need no water,
Let Frosty the Snowman burn.
12/26/08
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It was exciting because we were banging at work, but I'm in no rush to do it again in a freezer (or an ice-sauna). Remember the scene from 'A Christmas Story' with the flagpole? That's what happens when you touch wet things to frozen things. Not good. We basically ended up doing it standing up with her bent over, but she still had to go back to the cash register with her hands all frozen and red.
12/12/08
12/12/08
I fail to see how the tounge to a flagpole scenario ties in, however. The only wet parts touching anything are the obvious, and if your saying those will get stuck together I'm going to have to raise my BS flag.
Now, your skin doesn't have to be very wet to get stuck to ice, but if you don't know that by now and are pressing against a block of ice to hold yourself up, then the red hands are probably well deserved.
12/12/08
Your tennis bench will get much warmer just by you sitting on it, where the sides of a refer box are continually having cold applied to them by the freezing conduits, and will stay MUCH colder.
12/12/08
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12/12/08
"ARRG. Sh*t man. That hurt! Right in my freakin' mouth... What was in that!" *lick's lips* "Was that...do I taste strawberry?"
12/12/08