• We look at an amazing ad campaign for “Twilight” that came with our Sunday paper
• Andrew discovered that nowadays Underoos are fun to wear if you’re a millionaire
• We discover the world’s freakiest commercial aimed at kids
• We decide we’d like to spend our “Summer Days with Coo“
• We reminisce about and then discover that Mr. Yuck is still rolling strong.
• We find three pet dinosaurs that all look awesome, as well as some interesting toy skeletal remains.
• We present what might be the ultimate Charlie Brown clothing accessory of all time.
• We talk about toddlers, poop and toddlers’ fascination with poop.
• We discover the ultimate Lego-lover’s room.
• Andrew finds out that today’s gym classes in NYC are freaking awesome.

And tons more

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I should have bought some…

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Pretty badass, eh? I’m assuming the quality to be fairly good as far as the printing goes, but I haven’t found any reviews yet that discuss the actual deck quality with regards to pop or durability. Still, not a bad way to create and/or buy a nice limited edition piece of art!

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The 2008 Beijing Olympics have had millions of Americans glued to the screen, whether on TV or online, with record viewership and Web site traffic. However, the great popularity of the games did not quite translate to huge amounts of video advertising. Based on video stream figures released by NBC, eMarketer estimates video ad spending on the NBCOlympics.com site will reach $5.75 million. That sum is surely a passable performance for a bit more than two weeks, but it represents only 1.1% of this year’s online video ad spending projection of $505 million in the US.

Even with the Olympics’ popularity, much of the record traffic on NBCOlympics.com was not video viewers. One reason for that discrepancy? NBCOlympics.com users were forced to download Microsoft Silverlight, the company’s competitor to Adobe Flash, and being asked to download something to access content tends to eliminate part of the audience.

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The only comparison I see missing is the fact that Wally West, the Flash pictured, started his career in the Flash costume as a self-absorbed jerk and eventually grew up, and Bolt’s been observed as a bit of a self-absorbed ass at the Olympics, but everyone hopes he’ll soon grow up. Either way, DC should definitely get their PR team in gear to produce some sort of Flash/Bolt variant cover for a charity or something. This sort of potential publicity writes itself!

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One: it’s fucking awesome that Speedo was faced with a conundrum and did the right thing by essentially opensourcing their new technology. Definitely a lesson to be learned here for other major companies, as they still ended up with the lion’s share of the publicity and, one would assume profits, even though they essentially gave their work notes away.

The company believes that the LZR is an equally profound invention — and the athletes who’ve raced in it tend to agree. As LZR-wearing swimmers instantly began to chalk up world records, word got around that anyone not competing in one at the Olympic Trials might end up “at home watching on NBC,” American coach Mark Schubert said.

Swimmers who were under contract to race in TYR, Nike, Arena, Mizuno, and others, were torn: support their sponsors or take the advantage offered by the LZR? Sensing bad PR, Speedo allowed the basics of the LZR to be copied; their rivals scrambled to create similar suits. In the end, most swimmers in Beijing competed in Speedo (although several countries, including Italy, wore Arena suits).

Two: this is the shit that superheroes would wear, albeit slightly more riddled with StarkTech or WayneTech upgrades.

I’d been warned that the suit takes 20 minutes to pull on, so I used the wetsuit trick of slipping plastic bags over my feet to make things easier. It did — to a point. It still took 10 minutes to get the thing over my legs, and three people to zip me up. The LZR’s fabric, Brommer had warned, isn’t soft like Lycra. Rather, it has a delicate, papery feel. And while the material is super-thin it takes effort to stretch it, as though it were far thicker elastic. The polyurethane panels act as a truss, which gives you the feeling of being hugged by the suit. Support=strength; think of weight lifters wearing their weight belts,

In short, you feel pretty badass in the LZR. That is no accident. When designing the suit, Speedo also probed swimmers’ psyches. “We asked them how they wanted to feel on the blocks,” Brommer says. “Michael Phelps said that he wanted to feel like Superman.” Did it work? “I feel better in the water than I have in any other suit,” Phelps says.

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Apparently, the last time NBC had this many folks stay home on a Saturday night to watch them, it was for an episode of “Empty Nest,” and they only had 31 million viewers for that. Chalk up one more record the dude’s smashed.

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Not everyone will miss the old park, it seems.

Today’s All-Stars have their own reasons to dry their eyes at Yankee Stadium’s funeral.

“The smell,� the Texas Rangers’ Michael Young said.

“The tiny clubhouse,� Justin Duchscherer of the Oakland Athletics added.

“Hitting my head on the dugout,� the Chicago White Sox’ Joe Crede offered. “Every time somebody scored or got a hit, you jumped up and forgot how low the ceiling is in there.�

Much like I can’t blame the Mets and Yanks for building new stadiums, I can’t really blame these guys for complaining — Yankee Stadium, much like Shea, is old and scummy. But admittedly that’s actually what I really like about both stadiums. Dirty and old = character, and that atmosphere adds to the overall enjoyment of the experience.

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