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Frogger.. Anyhow, the arrow keys on my laptop make the browser scroll up so I cant see the little man after trying to make the first hop.

I'd buy Apple before Linux, and thats something that if I saw it on fire, i wouldnt even pee on it to put it out.

I agree with some of the other folks in that most of the ads I see on web sites arent the types of things i'm interested in. Plus you see a saturation of ads that pay the most, which are: Insurance, Refinance/Banking and Car sales The would around me is completely painted with ads of those three subjects. I'm so tired of seeing Geico commercials that I wouldnt use that insurance company even if they gave me better rates and coverage than what I have. As for the rest of it, I only need a new car every few years and have all my banking needs taken care of. So to hear about the same thing over and over again, actually pisses me off and makes me not want to even listen to other commercials or look at ads. I couldnt be the only one that is sick to death of Network TV and their watermarks and animated ads on the bottom of every TV show. I'm sitting there to watch a show I like, I dont need to be reminded that "The Closer" is on or that Progressive offers insurance 20 times throughout the course of a program. To add insult, they play 3 minutes of show and 2 minutes of commercials. If I want something, i search for it. I also agree 100% on the Music CD example given. It costs pennies to create a CD, a Buck to market it, and they give the artist pennies. The rest of it goes to the greedy music company. Trent Reznor has come up with a great system in my opinion. Its tiered so that fans of all degrees can get their fill and he still has a chance at making money. The biggest loser? Record Companies, and they can cry me a river because they should have reasonably priced music for the last 20 years that CD's have been out. Whats the fix? They need to do a better job targeting ads or not put them up at all. I think the best advertising possible is embedded ads. Like Sports players wearing Rebook or Nike, a Ford Mustang in a car chase. Actor drinking Coke or Bud Light. Course Budweiser does have great commercials that are sometimes more enjoyable to watch than whatever show is on. But they have to be very careful on not plugging too hard, because they will degrade the quality of the show. Dont put a summers eve ad in the middle of an article about how to rebuild a carburator. Web sites tend to just chuck up any old ad regardless of how it relates to the content. That is what turns everyone else in the world off of even looking. If the trend of blocking everything but flat out HTML continues, web content will suffer too. There are some good things that can be done in Flash, in fact some people write their entire site in it. I'm not one to agree thats the best way to market a site, but there are some neat things done in it. Advertising has really hurt the promotion of Flash a great deal. Every action has a consequence, ads hurt legitimate content sites by forcing people to use blockers and blockers restrict or prohibit some good content.