kooky kommercials

I consider commercials to be a great waste of time and money only because so rarely are they effective in generating more business. Most people who like Coke will drink Coke, a cool Pepsi ad isn't going to make them suddenly change their mind. Watching a woman train for a marathon in Nike shoes doesn't make me want Nike shoes, but I'll notice how thirsty she is and think gee I'm thirsty I think I'll get a Coke.
That said, I've noticed a recent trend in the last few years to bizarro commercials. These commercials advertise their product, but really random. They are usually weird, often very weird, yet I feel as if someone crawled inside my brain and created a commercial specifically for me.
Although JetBlue has been in the crapper lately and I've never even been on a freakin plane, I can't help but stop whatever I'm doing to watch its ad:



Ok, not so weird, as it is retro-pleasant with it's nod to 8-bit, but whatever.
Also, there is ad for Domino's new dessert Oreo Pizza which I think sounds disgusting and I hate Domino's pizza anyway, but the commercial interests me in the way that I try to imagine a board meeting where they've been at it all night when one guy goes, "I've got it, beards made of cookies!" and the other people patting him on the back and saying, "Jenkins, you're a genius!" I also like to imagine the commercial appearing on television in the past, say the 1950's and how people would've been like, "The hell is that?!" Granted, there are much weirder commercials overseas, but maybe we'll catch up?

More commercial weirdness:
Domino's Oreo Pizza
Skittle's Rabbit
Quizno's Rat Things
Snicker's Panda

I also enjoy very low quality local commercials.

#20 Youtube and the almighty $

Youtube is a very dangerous site. If you are not careful, you can get sucked in and spend way too much time looking at old commercials. On several occasions I have meant to only briefly visit youtube to look at some video someone has emailed me about and suddenly I realize that an hour has magically vaporated. Since this learning 2.0 project started youtube has been having some legal problems and just wednesday was sued by Viacom for a billion dollars. Can youtube get control of its copyright issues with so many anonymous posters? I think probably not and this will be the beginning of the end for youtube, unfortunately. If it wasn't for the amazing news footage clips, the most talked about moment of a hot tv show, or nostalgic commercials (all posted by fans who don't own the material) would anyone stick around to watch lame video diaries all day? I don't think so.
Already several clips I had placed in my favorites folder have been deleted by youtube. The hardest part is that technology is faster than the laws used to govern these things so now that youtube is a hit everyone wants to get paid. It makes sense in the way the music industry put an end to Napster because of all the illegal file sharing, (except instead of music it's the latest slap fight from an episode of the Real World) but it kinda ruins it for everyone else.