"With the spectacular growth of television, millions of Americans are staying indoors. Now, for this revolutionary way of life, McGregor works a sportswear revolution -- makes it perfect indoors as well as outdoors!"
The clip ends with a tag for Sunpluggers.com, which surprisingly is not about having sex outside or on boats. But who's behind Sunpluggers? The registration info is hidden, as are all the identities of the writers, but under the "Write" section of the site it says:
Sunpluggers.com provides solar consumers with free information that we gather and report as independent journalists. We are not affiliated with any other organization.
So I guess they just really liked this Chevy Volt number? I mean, it is catchy and all, but it's clearly not perfect because the dancers never spelled out the word VOLT with their bodies.
"The Chevy Volt Dance" [YouTube via OhGizmo!]
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"After careful consideration and analysis, the company has determined that he is no longer the right representative for its advertising," Accenture said, adding that "it wishes only the best for Tiger Woods and his familyThe ads in question featured Mr. Woods with a variety of slogans including, "Go on, be a Tiger," which used to mean, "Be awesome at golfing and being rich." Now it means "have bad taste in female companionship." Tee hee.
In a round up of other endorsement deals the AP reports the following:
Gillette: Will not air Tiger Woods commercials or have him at public events for the time being.
EA: Isn't going to do anything. New Tiger Woods game in 6 months.
Tag Heuer: "Does not care" about Tiger's private life and notes that he is still the world's best golfer.
AT&T: Still evaluating
Nike: Is glad he's taking time off.
Accenture marks 1st sponsor to cut ties with Woods [Yahoo!] (Thanks,Dan!)
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Headless [YouTube]
Humble Oil bragged that they produce enough oil to melt seven million tons of glaciers per day. Try to find an oil company that makes bold claims like that today!
Oil: enough energy to melt glaciers! [Grist] (Thanks, Julie!)
(For those who aren't glued to celebrity gossip sites and need a Chinese, computer-animated re-anactment of how events might have unfolded at the Woods estate, here you go.)
]]>According to Lagniappe, a local bi-weekly, the general manager and news director of the station have both been suspended over the incident. Harsh, man. Harsh.
WPMI GM, ND Suspended Over Billboard [Lagniappe via Freakonomics]
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From a Department of Transportation press release:
British Airways, in an agreement with the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Aviation Enforcement Office, will compensate consumers for cancellation penalties and other expenses incurred due to the carrier’s erroneous offer of $40 fares between the United States and India. The lowest U.S.-India fare being offered by British Airways prior to the mistaken ad, not including taxes, was over $750.
The $40 fare, which did not includes taxes and fees, was posted on British Airways’ own website at about 6:30 pm on Oct. 2. The carrier realized its error nearly immediately and removed the fare within minutes from its own website, but it remained on the websites of certain on-line travel agents for about two hours. During this time, more than 1,200 bookings were made covering approximately 2,200 passengers. British Airways cancelled the bookings of all passengers who purchased the fare and, before the Enforcement Office began its review of the matter, offered all affected passengers a travel voucher valued at $300.“We are pleased to see that British Airways has accepted responsibility for the fares it published,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said. “This agreement with British Airways will compensate passengers for losses they suffered as a result of the carrier’s mistaken fare offer.”
In consultation with the Aviation Enforcement Office, British Airways also has agreed to reimburse passengers for their expenses resulting from having relied on the erroneous $40 fare. These could include fees for cancelling flights or cancelling hotels, rental cars or other ground arrangements, as well as additional costs incurred in rebooking flights due to fare increases on previously held flights that were cancelled in order to book the $40 fare.
British Airways also agreed to provide notice of its offer to all consumers on its website. Further information about filing a claim with British Airways is available at http://www.britishairways.com/travel/home/public/en_us.
The "my bad, how about a do-over" thing isn't all that uncommon for British Airlines recently.
Department Ensures British Airways Offers Reimbursements Following Erroneous Fare Offer [U.S. Department of Transportation]
(Thanks, Timothy!)