Creative ad campaign for Snakes On A Plane movie

Get a call from Samuel L. Jackson

Who can resist clicking a link like that? This is one of the coolest movie marketing campaigns I've ever seen. Here's what the home page says:

Send a free personalized talking "Snakes on a Plane" message in the voice of Samuel L. Jackson to someone you know.
Just give us a few details about the person and tell us whether you want to send your message by phone or by E-mail. Then sit back, relax and enjoy the fright...

Samuel L. Jackson is one of my favorite actors, and my wife is an even bigger fan of his, so I went ahead and entered some info into a series of form inputs, which customized the message for my wife. I'll probably play around with selecting different options, tomorrow, to see what the funniest combinations are. I haven't read much about the movie, yet, but I am already compelled to go see it. :)


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New York Times wants your money

I was doing some research for a paper I was writing, a couple days ago, when I must have accidentally clicked something on a New York Times article page. I think it was some kind of "Save" button, or something. In any case, I found the resulting page humorous:

People I would like to make contact with

This is a short list of various people I'd like to make contact with for one reason or another. These include former co-workers, people I went to school with, etc. I haven't talked to any of these people in at least 4 years, and some it's been as long as ~23 years. This is just a wild stab in the dark, in case one of these people happens to Google their name some day, and stumbles across this blog post. Highly unlikely, but it would sure be cool if it happened.

If your name is on this list, please consider that I've always lived in Northern Virginia, so if you've never lived or worked in that area, it's not you that I'm looking for. If you think it might be you that I'm looking for, please email me!

Stephen O'Brien
Geoffrey Plumbley
Keith Landsdowne
Ba-Huy Duong
Lance Deffenbaugh
Eric Schmitt
Greg Highsmith
Jeremy Turner