This is YOU!

When you create an advertisement, perhaps a banner on Facebook, for instance, you have numerous decisions to make. What is your main selling message? How will you best communicate it? Things like that. If you're going to sell an image, you might decide whether you're going to show the image your product or service will create, something perhaps that your audience might aspire to be. This is usually a depiction of how your target audience might like to see themselves.

Or you can show them an obvious message: This is you as you are, and you should gross yourself out.

This image shows you how the latter is done:

Photo of Palin's Email Hacker

I was just cruising around the information superhighway when I hit this speed bump: a picture of who I believe is the young man who hacked Sarah Palin's email account.

It has to be him. Look at him there, trying to hide his identity with that Unabomber hoodie, hunched over the keyboard of his laptop so those around him in that white room won't see all of the illegal things he's doing. He should be ashamed.

Close the books on this one, FBI. I found your man.

This is the NFL

While watching the NFL today, my son Graham said, "The Chiefs are not very good at football."

How true.

If you have never read the Web Scout blog from the L.A. Times, you should. Here's a great post regarding the new season of online-only shows.

Overheard at the RNC

Overheard on the headsets during the broadcast of the Republican National Convention:

Director: Camera two, get me a shot of a minority, one of the delegates.

(Pause)

Director: Are women minorities, Camera two? Last I heard we were about 50/50. Get me a minority.

Director: Hey you there, the guy with the clipboard.

Producer: (indistinguishable)

Director: Yes, I know you have a name, young man. I just don't care enough to remember it. Answer me, haven't we shown that African American guy before, the one in the POW hat?

Producer: (indistinguishable)

Director: I thought so. All right Camera two, the guy in the eye patch will have to do. Listen, Clipboard, in 2012 I want some minorities I can put on the screen. Get me?