Epic Drop 1/27/10: Tebow goes pro-life 4 Super Bowl, Ohio's wasted stimulus, NFL going mobile, The iPad, Who are the Avengers?

This week was the big unveiling, no, not of Greg Oden's penis but the iPad from Apple.  More on that behemoth later on.  The pad, not the penis.  Welcome to the Epic Drop where Tebow makes his second appearance in two days and the Avengers are finally announced.  + 1 for random hot girls

Tim Tebow may not make waves in the NFL but he might over Super Bowl weekend.  Tebow and his mother will appear in a Focus on the Family ad Super Bowl day that will “Celebrate Family, Celebrate Life", aka a pro-life commercial that surely didn't come cheap at $2.5 million plus.  I can't really fault the guy for standing up for his beliefs but I am betting this isn't the kind of attention he was hoping for right now.  I don't see this winning any "best commercial" awards but it would be ironic if it ran right after a Go Daddy ad.

The NFL may bring its RedZone channel to mobile phones next season.  If you haven't watched it on cable/satellite it is pretty sweet.  The channel cuts to any game where a team is in the red zone allowing you to rarely miss scores of any NFL game minus crappy distant field goals.  Great idea for Sundays on the go.  I try to schedule things around Bears games but I probably won't be too concerned about that next year. 

I've seen these signs all over Michigan as well so I find it funny to hear about crappy Ohio wasting 1 million dollars in stimulus money just to advertise on signs that they are spending stimulus money.  Let me see if I gather the chain of money here.  We pay too much of it to the government so they decide to spend it for us.  They give it to the states to spend it for us and do things that should help stimulate their economy.  To do so however they must advertise to us that they are spending our money because I am sure everyone forgot the government is being wasteful with our tax dollars.  Thanks for the reminders ********.

Apple unveiled the iPad today to the tech world's delight.  Typical of most Apple hardware it seems to focus on style over substance.  It looks great and I wouldn't mind toying around on one but there is no way in hell I would buy one.  The damn thing doesn't even have multitasking!  ITS 2010!  Operating systems have had multitasking for 20+ years!  Did they not learn anything from the iPhone?  There is no reason for it to not have multitasking.  Anyhow check it out over at Engadget.

Ebay still sucks and I continue to sell on it, serves me right.  Anyhow they are now raising their prices for listings started at .99 yet they are disguising it as a price drop.  While .99 cent auctions can now be listed for free Ebay takes a bigger percent of the final sale price.  The Consumerist didn't really do their research here and touted it as a nice price drop.  Ya, sort of.  I really need to start selling more of my crap on Craigslist. 

Early screening reviews of Ridley Scott's Robin Hood are leaking to the press.  AICN has one positive and one negative.  I am not impressed with the idea that this may be a PG-13 film.  This needs to be a brutality-filled spectacle like Gladiator.  Hopefully this is changed before the movie drops. 

Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige has announced the full roster of the Avengers for the eventual movie.  Iron Man, Thor and Captain America and the Hulk eventually it seems.  Nick Fury will also play a role.  The way he phrases the Hulk comment makes me think they will do the "fight Hulk early on, befriend him and join to fight evil villain later on" concept that has been used in the comics.  A smaller roster should make for a better flick but I hope we get some cameo appearances of other members.


ROFL, this is slightly NSFW but not that bad I promise.  I laughed though, everything came together in this for the perfect storm.