How not to shop...

for a new tv
http://www.electronichouse.com/article/big_box_stores_how_not_to_shop/

The Washington Post gives us the details on how those directv commercials are remade.

I'm so sick of web browsing being crippled by slow ad loading servers that I decided to do something about it. A simple installation of Firefox's Adblock Plus plugin is the easiest and most effective thing I've done to kill the ad lag. http://www.stopbadware.org/ has a pretty large database you can search to find sites that use spyware/adware.