Alternatively, "Luke, I am your fonter." God I hate myself for that. And, well, pretty much everything else I've ever done. Anyway, because some Geekologie Readers have to go home and give themselves glitterstim enemas if I ...

"Everyone who has a Google account should visit their Dashboard once a year," Google product manager Jonathan McPhie told me in a meeting room ...

Do you think Helvetica is sexy? Do you point out that Sabon has its merits, even though it’s a serif? Do you even know what I’m saying? If you’re a designer of any type (Get it? TYPE! lolz) or work in ...

Google is trying to calm the fears of TV execs by disavowing cord-cutters. The company says it doesn't believe that cord-cutting is a real ...

"It's on like Donkey Kong". Is that even a cool thing to say? Because I'm pretty sure that assclown with the cowboy hat sings it in 'Honky Tonk Badonkadonk', effectively negating any street cred given to the phrase ...

Facebook has confirmed that some application developers sold identifying user information to a data broker. The offending developers—not named directly by the company—have been ...

krou writes "Living in an ad-free internet thanks to ad blockers? That could be a thing of the past if software firm NuCaptcha has their way by making captchas into ads. 'Instead of the traditional squiggly word that users have ...

Pickens writes "In 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin made a promise: 'We believe the issue of advertising causes enough mixed incentives that it is crucial to have a competitive search engine that is transparent and in the academic realm.' ...

An anonymous reader writes "Google will start to collaborate with the Swedish Postal Service (Swedish original) to sell direct marketing to small businesses, both in the form of fliers (delivered by the Swedish Postal Service) and keyword advertising in Google ...

Facebook's privacy problems continue this week after researchers discovered that Facebook may inadvertently be outing gay users to its advertisers. Saikat Guha from Microsoft ...

Because there's nothing sacred in marketing but the bottom line, Marvel will be releasing variant mash-up covers on a number of upcoming comics to really force-feed 'Tron: Legacy' down your gullet. Dammit Disney, at least pre-chew it for me ...

'Build Anything' is an ad for LEGO created by artist Temujin Doran. It features things in real life made out of LEGO blocks. Like, oh I don't know, umbrellas and cafe tables. Per the mans himself: This is ...

Aldenissin writes "Dustin Moskovitz confirmed that he has recently given (an additional) $50,000 in support of Proposition 19, which is seeking to legalize marijuana in California this November. He had previously donated $20,000 to supporters of the act, which would ...

Ponca City, We Love You writes "EFF reports that after Ohio Congressman John Kasich put out a commercial featuring a man dressed as a steelworker discussing Governor Ted Strickland's record, Strickland's campaign folks apparently realized that the 'steelworker' was really ...

KFC (who knows good marketing) has just started a campaign in which they pay college girls $500 to wear 'Double Down' sweatpants and pass out sandwiches/coupons to horny/obese college students. It's actually pretty genius if you think about it ...

See the unicorn in the picture? Of course not, because there isn't one. What there IS is a horse with a broken golf club taped to its head. Still, the Ontario Science Centre wants you to believe ...

techinsider sends this quote from Security Week: "A group of media and marketing trade associations, with support from the Council of Better Business Bureaus, today announced the details of a self-regulatory program designed to give consumers enhanced control over the ...

A number of major advertising associations have banded together to announce a self-regulatory program that would allow users to opt out of ad tracking. ...

Hugh Pickens writes "Ever since television caught on in the 1950s, the FCC has been getting complaints about blaring commercials but concluded in 1984 there was no fair way to write regulations controlling the 'apparent loudness' of commercials. Now the ...

iPad owners are a different breed from those who own other portable devices and e-book readers, according to a new survey by Nielsen. Nielsen's ...

THOSE OBNOXIOUS TV COMMERCIALS THAT ARE DECIBELS LOUDER THAN EVERYTHING ELSE ARE ONE STEP CLOSER TO BEING ERADICATED IN THE US. The Commercial Advertisement ...

The results of a study conducted by researchers from Duke University, Penn State University, and Intel Labs have revealed that a significant number of ...

eldavojohn writes "You might be used to the idea that game reviewers receive games free and ahead of time, but Ars opens up a darker side to the mystery box. Like a $200 check from Dante's Inferno, reading, 'by cashing ...

eldavojohn writes "Google, already the largest search engine in the United States, went instant a few weeks ago. MIT's Tech Review asks why Google went instant and is skeptical that users actually look at search results before they finish typing ...

For those of you who haven't noticed, Geekologie is getting flagged as a reported malware attack site. Obviously, we'd never do that to you. Some bad third-party ad (dammit Google, don't you check those things?!) snuck in last ...

This week in Apple, we took a look at iTunes 10's new crazy interface, how advertisers are beginning to use HTML5 databases to store ...

An anonymous reader writes "Product placement to promote your brand just isn't enough any more. These days, apparently, some companies are resorting to anti-product placement in order to get competitors' products in the hands of 'anti-stars.' The key example being ...

Simple, just change the name of your network! Oooor post fliers. Or -- OR -- hire a couple male strippers dressed as policemen to show up and run some of that yellow 'CRIME SCENE' tape around the premises ...

This is a video of somebody's grandpa blowing giant-ass bubbles on the beach and them popping in slow motion. It's mesmerizing. I mean, come on -- who doesn't love bubbles? Exactly, only devil worshipers and Bubble Boy. ...

eldavojohn writes "The New York Times is reporting on a new kind of web ad that takes products you were looking at purchasing on one site and continually advertises them in front of you at subsequent sites. After looking at ...

eldavojohn writes "So, you pay a PR firm like Reverb to generate some positive buzz for your new mobile game, and what do they do? Hire employees to post fake glowing reviews of your game wherever it's being distributed. The ...

Movie studios are extending their efforts to take down sites that offer pirated material, with a new lawsuit targeting an advertising company that provides ...

An anonymous reader writes "Prepare yourself. A staple of near-future sci-fi—magazine video ads—are now a thing of the present. And which high-tech magazine is leading the charge? Wired? Popular Mechanics? Nope. Successful Farming. The advertisement itself is for a pesticide ...