Archive for October, 2005

NY Jets vs. ATL Falcons on Monday Night Football

The injury stricken New York Jets were not expected to stand much of a chance against Michael Vick and the Atlanta Falcons. Nevertheless, Slicksta was surprised, when just a few minutes into the 2nd quarter, with the Jets down 0-17, Frank Gifford and Coach Madden started cracking jokes about how the game was basically over. [...]

AdTunes.com – Music from Commercials

“What was the track used in that television commercial?” Now you can find the answer at Adtunes.com – the weblog of information on music from TV ads, film trailers, and more.
Slicksta stumbled onto this fun site while doing research about the Got PMS commercial. The site is well done and features detailed postings about songs [...]

Ask Jeeves about Jessica Alba

Slicksta’s got to give it to the butler: he sure knows how to promote a feature. Ask Jeeves is promoting their image search by featuring a link to hot Jessica Alba pics from their homepage. As Fericito would say: Aye dios mio!

NFL Superbowl Commercials After the Game

This year the NFL is planning to make the commercials that air during the SuperBowl available after the game. Yes, we’ll all get to watch monkeys, horses and frogs doing human stuff and see what Pepsi’s next move is in the quest to topple Coke. Slicksta thinks this is a great idea! He’s always [...]

Google’s RSS Reader

Google has released an RSS Reader as part of their suite of personalization tools. Of course, Slicksta immediately created an account and subscribed to the Slicksta dot com feed.
Basic functions work . . . okay. Many have complained about the service being too “beta” but Slicksta did not find the experience horrible. You can search [...]

Cool Computer Speakers

Who says computer speakers have to be boring? Not Slicksta! His head bobs to the driving beats of his JBL Creature PC Speakers. They produce clear and crisp sound and look cool. Slicksta likens them to those big white tents they have at those shady auto auctions. Who buys those cars anyways?