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However, the combined cumulative effects of incestuous polygamy and living downwind from Dugway Proving Ground are beginning to exhibit themselves with a vengeance.

Aren't there already laws against unfair use of someone else's trademark? It strikes me that what this law may end up doing is making it illegal to say "My patented widget will turn your XBOX into a 100% effective chick magnet", even if that statement is 100% factual. There's got to be some existing legal argument why advertisers all over Known Space are not allowed to place the word "super" next to the word "bowl", even if the use of those two words is not even remotely infringing.

I still use and love my datalink. My current one is #3. I bought #2 the day of the best Superbowl I can remember http://www.superbowl.com/history/recaps/game/sbxxx iv. The little things are so precise they crap out pretty much exactly after 5 years. I hope I can still get somethings similar in 2010...

"You have changed your PVR, stereo, and snackbowl. You must re-register your TV before you continue."

Speaking of bowls, that'll be a big problem if it's done by February 6...

Anheuser-Busch, the largest advertiser with 10 of the 30-second ad slots on Fox's Feb. 6 broadcast, produced a humorous spot that purports to show what really caused Janet Jackson's infamous "wardrobe malfunction" in last year's Super Bowl halftime on CBS.

From my AQFL site.

1982 - Super Bowl XVI: San Francisco 49ers defeat the Cincinnati Bengals, 26-21 in the first Super Bowl played north of the Mason-Dixon line

Proof that you can perform at a very high level and still fail. Ken Anderson, the Cincinnati Bengals quarterback, became the first quarterback to complete better than seventy percent of his passes, 73.5%, in a Super Bowl.

For years, including Super Bowl XXIII, the 49ers doomed the Cincinnati Bengals, and for fifteen years after that last visit to the Super Bowl, the Bengals have toiled as the NFL's "Siberia."

However, it is on now that Marvin Lewis is in command and Carson Palmer is behind center. Enjoy your #1 draft pick, 49er fan. Cincinnati is going to the playoffs and back to the Super Bowl while you hold down the title of NFL Siberia.

The curse of Bill Walsh (former Bengals coach under Paul Brown) will be reversed!

The first Super Bowl had this too. I'll bet those guys were happy not to have a "wardrobe malfunction"!

Super Bowls are customarily referred to by the year fo the season they follow, not the calendar year in which they are held.

Maybe Apple will run a new ad in this year's Super Bowl? (I pick Pats to win but would love to see a Panther upset.)

OK, bud. Just out of curiousity, how did Apple manage to air a commercial in February for a product coming out a week before that? Either they managed to time travel as well, made a grave mistake, or you are the one who in fact is mistaken.

If you don't believe me, check how much 10 seconds of superbowl publicity cost.

Well, the ads aren't that bad, and there's a pretty good reason they cost so much (average of $2,100,000 for 30s); last year's game was the 5th most watched program in TV history.

Eventually, humans whose only abilities are found in their bodies will be put to use by those more intelligent either for manual labor or gladiatorial exhibitions. Oh wait..

Don't be expecting The Matrix here--there is no interpolation, so the turning is very jerky--but I think this shows promise.
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Patrick Doyle

One of the reasons for the jerkyness was that they were only using 33 video cameras, as compared to 100+ still cameras in The Matrix. The video was a bit grainy (I'm a video network engineer, so that's striking me as a bit curious.), but I agree; for a first time thing, this was good. A few years will see some remarkable improvements. I think, that www.superbowl.com is going to have EyeVision snippets online.
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