Subliminal NBC Advertising.

Okay, so tonight I was watching my usual NBC Thursday comedy line-up, My Name is Earl, The Office, Scrubs, and 30 Rock. I happened to notice at one point during a shampoo commercial that randomly an NBC logo suddenly flashed by, in one of the actress' hair as she was doing the whole, Whoosh! Look at how shiny my hair is now, routine. As someone who has seen that black and white horror movie that was banned because it had pictures of monkey skulls and old men with cigars flash across the screen during the tense moments, my eyes easily picked the obviously flashing of the logo throughout the night's programming, usually appearing over the main actor's face. I've tried looking into this, but as of yet I've seen no mention of an explanation of this practice and why, so I suppose I'll keep looking. As NBC already has come out that they often displace their shows by two minutes or so in order to mess up DVRs, I don't trust them as far as I could throw them, which you can imagine, regardless of whether or not you've ever tried to throw a corporation, isn't very far. I'm especially outraged because I've done so well to not watch 30 Rock until tonight. I really don't need another TV show that I have to watch, but I kept the show on tonight because they mentioned TV product integration. I was under the impression that maybe some genius somewhere had placed the logo in throughout the whole night, just so Tina Fey could say something like, "What'll you do next, subliminally advertise the network?" only to have the logo hilariously pop up on her face. No dice... and now, I think that the show's hilarious and I plan to watch it next week. Sigh..

On another note, when making my lengthly list of Latin vocabulary to learn from my reading this week, I stumpled upon the most ridiculous looking word: succussussu. More s's than Mississippi! From my extensive research (or rather looking closer at the text) I appeared to be a corrupt text and that the word should really be succussu, still humorous but actually in the Oxford Latin Dictionary, of course I am always excited when a word doesn't appear in my 2000 page behemoth. Anyway it seems to mean something like shaking below the waist, I'm assuming like weak in the knees, I'll figure that out closer to my assignment's due date. For now I shall continue watching Entourage. I fucking hate California.

Finally as Podcasts slowly consume my many 'audio moments' throughout the day, I thought I'd point out some good ones. They've all made my bus rides, grocery shopping, and flights much more enjoyable. So whether you're for Podcasting or against it, I'd still recommend at least checking out their websites:

NPR: Wait Wait Don't Tell Me - From Chicago Public Radio, it's the weekly news quiz! Awesome. I highly recommend it if you're interested in the news, but would rather laugh about it.

Penny-Arcade Podcast - Like comics about videogames? Then you'll love hearing two guys talk about maybe writing a comic about videogames.

The Onion Radio News - Close to daily snip-its from the fictional headlines

National Geographic Video Shorts - Like foreign animals and culture? Neither do I, but they sometimes have those aboriginal nude shots, I think.

DS: Life Podcast - Everything you could ever want to know about Nintendo's hand-held, also the guy says 'about' all Canadian like!

WiiSpot Podcast - From the people of DS: Life, but I'm assuming about Wii. Coming soon.