Honda made an ad campaign where they paved speed strips into a road such that the driver will hear the William Tell Overture while driving a Honda Civic at 35 MPH.

Advertising Age has an article that has a video clip of a Honda driving over the road, comparing it to a 3.5” floppy disk drive playing the Star Wars Imperial March and a series of old computer equipment playing a Radiohead cover.

Honda Civic William Tell Overture and Star Wars Imperial March on a floppy disk

An alternate clip with better pitch:

The NBC website for the Beijing Olympics this year is really good. It’s much better than the TV coverage. They have video coverage for all ofthe sports. I was watching unedited, commercial-free replay of ping pong. I watched about 30 mins of a 4 hour streaming video. How awesome is that?

By far NBC’s Olympic website is head and shoulders above its television coverage.

And another thing, where is American Airlines getting all this money to advertise on the Olympics every 5 minutes? Shouldn’t they be saving that money for employee pensions or lowering costs?

So now Michael Phelps finally has won his 8 medals now. What’s also lame is that they’ve been showing Phelps walk from the podium for 5 minutes followed by a 10 minute one-on-one interview with Bob Costas. Phelps deserves it but after seeing Michael Phelps on TV every 30 seconds for the past 7 days I’d really like to see some different faces. It’s an amazing accomplishment but geez the guy is on the screen ALL the time. I don’t like the way NBC overexposes olympic athletes.

Also Usain Bolt from Jamaica won the gold for the 100M dash. they showed him celebrating for about 5 minutes also. Isn’t that type of celebration coverage slightly excessive? I thought the Olympics were about sportsmanship but apparently NBC thinks the Olympics are all about celebrity and individual accomplishments. NBC could shave some of the celebration time off and show some different sports.

I wish I had CBC (Canadian television) in California. NBC sucks balls. Universal HD is slightly more diverse but they show a bit too much boxing.