boston.com always seems to launch some intrusive exciting new ad campaign the day something horrible happens. Like today:
Via the eagle-eyed Jonelle, who warns: Avert your eyes:
... Because nothing subtly underscores a tragic top news story like stick figures dancing in a sea of blinding orange. ...
Earlier:
The exploding-glass ad over news about the Emerson scaffolding collapse.
Dude, you look like American Idol exploded all over my screen.
Charley on the MTA writes it's past time the legislature did something about rapacious cellular companies ripping off consumers by locking them into overpriced, shoddy service:
... How cool would it be to actually have real, fluid competition in cell phone service? Unlock the contracts, and the companies will have more incentive to improve service. Someone else has a better/cheaper phone plan? Go with them! ...
David Weinberger follows up this Globe article about how Cingular refuses to prove its fewest-dropped-calls claim with his own Cingular experiences:
... My Cingular phone only works if I actually climb a Cingular antenna tower, of which there seem to be a total of nine in the continental United States. Fortunately, the towers are only 11 inches tall.
A Cingular ad on page A7 of the Globe today proclaims that Cingular puts more bars in more Boston places. Only problem, Ron notes: The baseball stadium in the ad isn't Fenway.
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