This is a screenshot from French clothing retailer La Redoute’s website advertising kid’s t-shirts. Aaaaaaaaaand they used a product shot with a dude’s wiener in it. I even found a closeup HERE because I know you’re a pervert! The image, which appeared for several hours on its website today, showed a group of four children running on the sand. But, in the background, a naked man can clearly be seen wading behind them up the sea-shore. Web users spotted the ‘faux pas’, which has since been taken down, and immediately took to Twitter to poke fun at the clothing company. Admittedly, I don’t really think it’s that big a deal. I mean, Europeans are WAY COOLER with nakedness than we are here in the United States of Embarrassment. Especially France. I just assumed naked wieners were a fact of life over there. “You’re going to vacation there, aren’t you?” I dunno, what’s my ticket say? “One-way.” *wink* Hit the jump for a video zoom-in of the man’s dongle in case you just can’t get enough.

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Woopsie Doopsie: Naked Man In Kid’s Fashion Ad

This is a fake-ass video of two quantum levitating hover cars racing around a little track inspired by the Playstation classic Wipe’Out . People are passing it around like it’s real, but it’s not — it’s fake. I assume they’ll announce a new Wipe’Out game in the next couple weeks. Ooooooooooooor maybe it’s real. Maybe scientists actually do spend their time making sketchy videos of meticulously reconstructed video game hover cars and race tracks with a giant ‘ ‘WIPEOUT’ printed right in the middle. *eyerolls so hard I lose a contact* Seriously folks, you really can’t believe everything you see. Half the time it’s just aliens playing tricks on us with laser beams! Hit the jump for the worthwhile but fake as shit video.

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Smells Viral: Quantum Levitating Toy Racecar Track

In ‘WTF took so long?’ news, the FCC has announced that starting next December, television commercials can be no louder than the shows they follow. LIFE INSURANCE, BONER PILLS, CHOLESTROL MEDS!! (I watch a lot of old westerns) After making its way through Capitol Hill, the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act (or CALM) — which aims to keep the sounds coming out of your flat panel even-keeled — has just been adopted in a ruling by the FCC. Starting next December, ads and promos will have to remain in-step with the audio levels of scheduled programming. I don’t know about you, but I’ve actually passed out on the sofa before and been WOKEN UP by a commercial. And not like, ‘oh I was tired and I fell asleep’ passed out either. I’m taking I just ate a cheeseburger off the carpet WASTED. You probably could’ve driven a firetruck through the living room and I wouldn’t have woken up, but this commercial did. I need help folks, that’s the real issue here. FCC tells advertisers to CALM down, lowers the volume on commercial breaks [engadget] Thanks to Becks and michael, who haven’t seen a commercial since DVR.

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Law To Keep TV Ad Volume Low Gets Passed

Just check out this hot little number. Pretty schmexy right? WRONG! She needs to eat a damn cheeseburger is what she needs to do. Well, that, AND NOT BE A DUDE. Haha — and you were looking at him! That makes you at least half gay right now. Andrej Pejic, a man with no breasts at all, is the star of a lingerie ad campaign promoting push-up bras. Modeling for Dutch company Hema, Pejic wears the brand’s Mega Push-Up Bra (just 20 euros!) underneath two different v-neck dresses. Pejic’s agent, Joseph Tenni, told Frockwriter, “It’s revolutionary… I’ve never known a man to do a women’s lingerie campaign before. Sadly, I don’t need a push-up bra to give the illusion of breasts. Or anything really, because they’re not an illusion . Most of the time I wish they were, but whenever I look down, nope, there they are — right on the cusp between a B and a C. Andrej Pejic Models Push-Up Bras For Hema [huffingtonpost] Thanks to Princess Yum-Yum, who has large au naturel taytays that could make a Geekologie Writer weep. It’s true too, I’m crying — HARD.

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Schmexy!: Iffy Push-Up Bra Print Advertisement

So I woke up on the wrong side of the bed today (which, incidentally, is just a mattress on the floor because why pay for a bed frame or boxspring when you’re already afraid of heights?) and it got me thinking: does my back hurt because my mattress is too stiff or because I drank my face off last night and my kidneys are shot ? Life’s little mysteries. This is a local Star Trek themed mattress store commercial. Would I go there to buy a mattress? No. Would I go there to intentionally pee on a Tempur-Pedic and try to get it at a discount? For you, yes. Hit the jump for more production value than you could shake a sockful of bottle caps at.

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Star Trek Themed Local Mattress Store Commercial

Researchers at Dartmouth College have developed a metric to apply to altered images to address how much Photoshopping a picture has undergone, in an effort to provide more truth in advertising and prevent unhealthy body image issues. Hey, I’m 5′4″, 240-lbs and cool with that. Farid and Eric Kee, a Ph.D student in computer science at Dartmouth, published their research this week in the journal National Academy of Sciences. The tool would work on a rating scale of one to five. Farid and Kee created a base metric by analyzing and statistically measuring results from various before-and-after photos. They then correlated these findings with a study group that was asked to rank the amount of photo alteration on a scale of one (very similar) to five (very different). This numbered metric could then be algorithmically applied to photos of, say, celebrities and models to reveal just how much photo-manipulation took place. You want to know how much photo-manipulation takes place? I’ll tell you — TONS. It’s true, the last unaltered celebrity photo was actually taken in the 90’s. THE 1890’s. It was sepia-toned. Tool Reveals Which Celebs, Models Have Been Photoshopped [mashable] Thanks to Pat, who looks stunning even without photo manipulation. I’M SAYING YOU’RE HANDSOME, BRO.

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The Shadows Are All Wrong: ‘Photoshopped’ Algorithm

Because 900-year old Jedi masters can’t survive on Dagobah swamp stew and dragonlizard dicks alone, here’s Yoda in a Japanese advertisement for Nissin Cup Noodles . I’m not really sure what the relationship between Yoda and ramen is supposed to be, but my guess is a sexual one . You suck ass, George! Hit the jump for the great, now I’m hungry.

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Yoda Advertising Ramen Noodles In Japan

WARNING: Video will make you think less of Doc Brown. This is the followup to the previously posted Back to the Future themed teaser ad (because commercials can have teasers now) for electronics store Garbarino in Angentina. Except this one is longer. And, despite a relatively okay concept, is pretty sad. Dammit Doc — WTF do you think you’re doing?! “Just trying to make a buck.” Just trying to make a buck — go back to the future and steal a Sports Alamanac, shit! “It’s unethical.” No, ruining my perception of the great Dr. Emmet Brown, INVENTOR OF THE FLUX F***IN’ CAPACITOR is what’s unethical! Back me up, Marty. “Wait a minute, Doc, are you trying to tell me that my mother has got the hots for me?” Jesus, not this again. Hit the jump for the say it ain’t so, plus bonus fake press conference that’s even worse :/

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This is a Nokia viral ad for their N8 phone featuring the world’s largest stop-motion animation, which was made on a beach using a crane (that’s a real boat in the picture). It’s a follow-up to their world’s smallest stop-motion animation and NOT a follow up to the job interview I had on Monday, which probably isn’t coming (I called the dude a pecker and threatened to choke him out with a computer cord when he asked for references). ‘Gulp’ is a short film created by Sumo Science at Aardman, depicting a fisherman going about his daily catch. Shot on location at Pendine Beach in South Wales, every frame of this stop-motion animation was shot using a Nokia N8, with its 12 megapixel camera and Carl Zeiss optics. The film has broken a world record for the ‘largest stop-motion animation set’, with the largest scene stretching over 11,000 square feet. Damn, that thing has a 12-megapixel camera? What’s my iPhone have on it? “A shit-ton of pics of your balls?” Haha, you know it! Hit the jump for the video, as well as a ‘making-of’ if you’re curious.

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World’s Largest Stop Motion Animation Film

This is a Coke billboard in the Philippines touting the company’s greenliness. How earth-friendly is Coke besides the billboard? I have no clue. Probably not very. Whenever I have to guess about something like this I always err on the side of “companies really don’t give a shit and will only do enough to give the appearance that they do.” Hey, I could be wrong though (except there’s no way because a Mountain Dew rep actually told me that). The 60 x 60 foot living billboard in Manila is made of thousands of Fukien tea plants surrounding the iconic curvy shape of a silver Coke bottle. The project with the CO2-eating plants was created in conjunction with Coca-Cola Philippines’ Live Positively sustainability program. Pots made from recycled bottles contain the 3,600 trees, which live off a mixture of organic fertilizers. Though they are currently in the first stages of growth, the plants are expected to grow quickly, completely taking over the billboard surface, absorbing a total of 46,800 pounds of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Who knows, maybe I’m just being cynical. Well — what’s your opinion? “It’d be cooler if that was ganja growing out of it.” OMG — so we could shoot flaming arrows at it and get high?! I WAS THINKING THE EXACT SAME THING! Coca-Cola Plant Billboard Absorbs Air Pollution [huffingtonpost] Thanks to Pat, who agrees the best technology is green technology. Wait like earth-friendly, or alien?

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Coca-Cola’s Iffy Pollution-Cleaning Billboard