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A Fatty Dish To Clog Your Arteries Whatever State You Live In:

Health.com tracked down an obscenely fatty restaurant meal in each of the 50 states. Some of the choices are eclectic and inspired, such as the pictured Quadruple Bypass Burger at the aptly named Heart Attack Grill near Phoenix.

Others are more phoned in, such as In-N-Out’s Double Double, which is the selection from California. Has Health never heard of In-N-Out’s 4×4?

Peruse the list and see what sort of heart attack-inducing dining experience is near you.

The 50 Fattiest Foods in the States [Health]

(Via Consumerist.)

Google AdWords Glitch Stops Partial Ad Serving: The Google AdWords Blog wrote that yesterday at about 4:30pm to 7:30pm (EST), there was an AdWords ad serving bug that prevented ads from being displayed. Google said the ads were not showing on Google.com and Search Partner sites at around 4:40pm. Google posted the issue at 6:30pm and updated the post about an hour [...]

(Via Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing.)

Dell Knowingly Sold 11.8 Million Computers With a 97% Failure Rate [Broken]:

Between 2003 and 2005, Dell sold millions of OptiPlex computers to everyone from Walmart to Mayo Clinic. And according to newly unsealed documents, Dell knew these systems were full of dangerously faulty motherboards all along. More »

(Via Gizmodo.)

The ADVERTISING Club of New York Honors GEICO’s Ted Ward as 2010 Advertising Person of the Year:

WASHINGTON – With GEICO’s unique ads dominating the airwaves, radio waves, and billboards across the country, it’s no surprise that GEICO’s own Ted Ward was honored by The ADVERTISING Club of New York as the 2010 Advertising Person of the Year. Ward joined GEICO in 1984 as director of media advertising and was named vice [...]

(Via AdOperationsOnline.com.)

ASCAP War On Free Culture Escalates: An anonymous reader writes “After ASCAP declared war on free culture and Creative Commons responded on the incident, the war of words is escalating. Drew Wilson of ZeroPaid has been following this story closely. The EFF responded to the ASCAP letter, saying ‘we don’t think that ASCAP characterized EFF and its work accurately. We believe that artists should be compensated for their work, and one proposal we have for that is Voluntary Collective Licensing.’ The response from the EFF came with a study and a letter written by one irate ASCAP member who donated to the EFF and to Public Knowledge as a result of the ASCAP letter. Public Knowledge also responded to the letter, saying ‘It’s obvious that the characterization of Public Knowledge is false. Public Knowledge advocates for balanced copyright and an open Internet the empowers creators and the public. What we oppose are overreaching policies proposed by large corporate copyright holders that punish lawful users of technology and copyrighted works.’ Now the National Music Publishers Association has weighed in to support ASCAP, saying that organizations like Public Knowledge and the EFF ‘have an extremist radical anti-copyright agenda’ according to a transcript of a speech posted on Billboard. Public Knowledge has dismissed those allegations, saying ‘anybody who has spent more than 5 minutes on our website or talking to our staff knows that these things are not true.’”

(Via Slashdot.)

This Is How Earth’s Gravity Field Looks [Science]:

BBC says this “is one of the most exquisite views we have ever had of the Earth.” I would say it is one of the most fascinating, as it shows how Earth’s gravity field changes across the globe. More »

(Via Gizmodo.)

Smooth Down Your Lady Parts With Camelflage Or Camel Ammo:

Think of five of your women friends. Pick one of them. Guess what? They’ve got camel toe. Camel toe is an embarrassing syndrome that affects one in five women annually. Besides the personal discomfort, it carries a social stigma that can lead to feelings of isolation and needs to consume entire pints of Ben & Jerry’s. Now there’s Camelflage, and Camel Ammo, two innovative products designed to smooth down your lady parts.

Camel Ammo is a flexible insert that can be used on any pair of panties, while Camelflage is an undergarment with the anti-camel technology already built in.

Think of them as Spanx for down there.

Have you ever used anything like these? Do they work? Do you have your own solution you prefer? Sound off in the comments.

Camel Ammo
Camelflage

(Via Consumerist.)

Another Nail in the Pageview Coffin:

Mike Davidson:

This weekend, msnbc.com launched a sweeping redesign of the most important part of their site: the story page. The result is something unlike anything any other major news site is offering and is a bold step in a direction no competitor has gone down (yet): the elimination of pageviews as a primary metric.

Bravo, MSNBC.com. I love it.

(Via Daring Fireball.)

Old Spice Hits New Low, Sponsors “Swagger” Stat In Madden NFL Game:

A couple weeks back, we discussed the growing trend of in-game ads in video games. And while it’s nothing new for sports games to feature sponsors in the background, the ad folks at Old Spice are breaking new ground, not just sponsoring a portion of the game, but completely fabricating a new statistic — swagger — to slap their name on.

Kotaku readers who’ve gotten their hands on the pre-release player statistics for the upcoming Madden NFL 11 football game noticed right away that there is a mysterious new “swagger” stat mixed in with the other numbers for each player. Not only is “swagger” displayed in a font that makes it stand out, it’s also got the Old Spice logo attached to it.

Old Spice is the “official deodorant and body wash” of the NFL, so I guess it makes some sense that they would so blatantly attached to the game. But why just a single stat? You often see things like “here’s the Coors Light starting offense, brought to you by Coors Light,” but you don’t often hear “Kyle Orton’s got a Doritos completion percentage of 57.8%.”

Is this the thin edge of the wedge? What kinds of “synergistic co-branding” do you expect to see next?

Madden’s Newest Stat, “Swagger,” is Sponsored [Kotaku]

(Via Consumerist.)