In what has to be one of the strangest pairing of television stars I’ve ever seen, Will Ferrell will be facing nature’s wrath alongside Bear Grylls on the season premier of Man Vs. Wild, taking the duo deep into the frozen tundra ‘far north’ of Sweden. It is set to coincide with the release of his upcoming motion picture Land of the Lost.

I wonder who’s idea it was (marketing or talents)?

Discovery Communications ad sales jockey Joe Abruzzese decided to step up and give the typical marketing pat-on-the-back by telling Variety Magazine just how this is a prime example of working closely with advertisers on “content integration.” At least Annah Zafrani, VP of media promotions for Universal Pictures, was put on record calling it the studio’s “most innovative project to date” with Discovery.

Should be fun to watch.

Ok I just couldn’t resist this, I know that today everyone seemed to be talking way too much about celebrities who recently have joined Twitter.com, but after seeing this series of updates I just had to post it.

Oprah’s first twitter post…..followed by Shaq’s response.

Layeth the smacketh down Shaq……God help us all.

Looks like there’s another clip out in the “In Plain English” series, just this time explaining social media. More specifically, those that use/over-use it. After watching, please refrain from looking at the sidebar to the right showing links to each of the sites I have a profile on. Those are for research purposes only, it’s part of my job! :)

I’ve become a big fan of this series. They’re produced by Kelly Stewart and they can all be found on her video blog – CinnamonPants.com.

The last one was Twitter – In Plain English, but after visiting her site, I noticed that apparently there’s an even better one called Technology In South Carolina Plain English (a rip on the now infamous Ms. Teen South Carolina 2007). It’s a pretty funny video, if you haven’t seen it I recommend checking it out.

Happy Tuesday.

For those who are really confused, it’s an internet phenomenon similar to stuffonmycat.com, where users submit photos of literally just stuff placed on their cat. Here’s the definition (thanks to Wikipedia) of what constitutes as a lolcat (and yes, there’s also a Loldog version out there called ihasahotdog.com):

A Lolcat is an image combining a photograph of an animal, most frequently a cat, with a humorous and idiosyncratic caption in (often) broken English referred to as Kitty Pidgin, or lolspeak.

Enjoy.

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While I’m on the same category, here’s another recent gem Stuff White People Like.

My favorite I think is #68 – Standing Still At Concerts
You definitely have to read through some of these numbered items, a few will almost make you cry.
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com