that’s an original idea? seriously?

Have you ever written or created something, and later realized that it was based on something you had already seen (and was not completely your original work)? It’s probably happened to us all.

Magician and mentalist Derren Brown explains in this short video how subliminal messages may affect us. (I would have embedded the video from YouTube, but embedding for this specific video was disabled.)

Derren Brown Subliminal Adversiting

Many thanks to the folks at Stuff You Should Know for mentioning this video in their podcast on How Deja Vu Works.

Hulu Provides All the Super Bowl Ads

If you missed the Super Bowl yesterday, you missed a great game and some really intriguing ads, too. The online service Hulu has all the ads from the game.

Which one is your favorite?

I particularly liked the Hulu ad, starring Alec Baldwin, and the two eTrade ads. And did you know that the parents of the eTrade Baby let him have a Twitter account?