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• In this week’s edition of “What Exactly Is Gawker’s “beat” These Days” news, I point to their recap of last night’s “Mad Men” and turn my head like an RCA dog.
• How fast is Usain Bolt, really? Some ESPN staffers found out.
• In case you missed this one, check out some fun that the New Yorker had with a recent NYT review of The Beatles: Rock Band.
• Could the “Tribute in Light” that graces lower Manhattan every year around September go dark in 2010?
• Gruber points to William Safire’s favorite New Yorker cartoon.
• If you were a digital Robin Hood, apparently you’d start at Facebook and head back to MySpace with whatever you’ve got. Or something like that. Or maybe you’d just sit on MySpace all day and post updates to Twitter.
• The amusing thing about this computer tumor is that it’s probably totally representative of the RAM bloat that your applications are chomping on, and will give you a good idea when you need to reboot.
• Trash your coach on Twitter, no Twitter for you, says Texas Tech coach Mike Leach.
• No coverage, no problem, say the Los Angeles Kings.
• OMG “Star Wars” bathrobes! [via Gizmodo]
• Dabitch seems to feel the same way that I do about the latest Windows 7 commercial.

On Thursday morning, the ever-thinking-about-cool-stuff David Pogue tweeted about those “You Will” television spots AT&T did in the early 1990’s, pointing out how “amazing” it was how many really came true. I guess we really shouldn’t be surprised by the seemingly brilliant future view that the company had, as surely they already had seen what would go into the products featured, which included everything from digital medical records, GPS, or the fact that one day, you’d have “borrowed a book…from thousands of miles away.”

And if you thought the voiceover sounded familiar, it was. Over at TV Squad, Bob Sassone reminds us that it was done by none other than Tom Selleck. Having lived the better part of my life in the neighborhood of the Holmdel, NJ location of Bell Labs, AT&T and the Baby Bells, etc. were always in the local news for one thing or another, and it was certainly a matter of local pride that a lot of cool stuff was created. Tens of thousands of patents and multiple Nobel Prize winners can’t be wrong.

Good show, AT&T.

Jeremy just hit me with an IM pointing me to Scott Beale’s post about Pontiac’s G8 advertisement featuring the world of Midway’s “Spy Hunter” video game. I’ve gotta say, the demographic being reached and the target market for the product are actually spot on with this, as folks who dug the game are probably ones who would dig this car. Head over to Scott’s post and check it out.

David sends along a link to Reebok’s Perfectville, which features the ‘72 Dolphins. And only the ‘72 Dolphins. Way to go, Reebok!