Hurricane I

Okay, you know those awful AOL commercials? The ones where all the members tell them how to make the Internets better and the management just goes "okay, great idea!" Well, I hate them, and apparently, I'm not the only one.

Slate does a ad campaign report card, which I love because I would like to make commercials myself someday. And they dislike the AOL thing too. Money quote:

The mom ad is bad because it's cringe-making. She's whiny and irritating, with a high-pitched bray of a voice. Her haircut is dreadful. Also, she requests Orwellian spy tools to invade her children's privacy—chat room "monitoring," and a report card assessing her kid's behavior on the Web. Meanwhile, she roughly plops said kid in the lap of a complete stranger (so she can deliver this manifesto unencumbered). As a friend indelicately put it: "I wish she were handing that baby to me, so I could throw it through the plate-glass window."

I completely concur. Just thought I'd share.