Super Buzz from the Super Bowl...and a Mother's Lament

The 2005 Super Bowl game is over, but buzz continues about the TV commercials that graced the action during this year's Patriots-Eagles showdown.

In fact, TV viewers who couldn't get enough of the ads during the game itself are downloading and watching them on the Internet today, as BlogPulse's top links include iFilm's repository of Super Bowl ads (be patient, heavy traffic) and analysis of the ads at Adjab's web site.

Meanwhile, Patriots QB Tom Brady is catching plenty of blog discussion, and "cute one" Paul McCartney shows he's still got it, capturing No. 3 spot among key people and Nos. 2 and 3 among bursty people. Funny, though, how few of the "youngsters" in the half-time stage crowd were singing along. Did they know the words? Did they know who Paul is/was?

In southwestern Colorado, two teens from Durango are taking heat for that all-time terrible teen activity: cookie baking. Seems neighbors unaccustomed to a little neighborliness are suing over intrusiveness of the chocolate chip- and sugar-cookie concoctions.

Today's top link, however, has nothing to do with football or marketing and everything to do with basic human emotions. It's from Caetlin, a LiveJournal blogger, who eloquently describes her reaction to the hurtful words lobbed at her 9-year-old son. F-word, indeed.

A CNN official's comment, made last week at the World Economic Forum, is still riling some bloggers and has lead to a "watchblog" called Easongate. (Watergate was a gate; Iran-Contragate was a gate. Easongate?). Some bloggers and critics insist CNN News Director Eason Jordan said the U.S. military was intentionally targeting journalists in Iraq, while Jordan claims he was making the point that the inordinate number of journalist deaths in Iraq may be be more than accidental. This much is true, according to the International Federation of Journalists: 129 journalists were killed worldwide in 2004 in the line of duty, one of the highest yearly death tolls on record. Of those, 49 were killed in Iraq last year. (For comparison, 63 journalists were killed in Vietnam over a 21-year period).

And remember that curious lump on President George Bush's back during one of the debates? It won't go away, but Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting claims that a New York Times investigation into the hump -- speculated to be an electronic communications device that gave Bush an advantage -- did go way, just days before the election.

BLOGPULSE TREND GRAPH OF THE DAY: I didn't notice this until now, but check out the effect of New Year's Eve parties on the drunk vs. sober chart created by BlogPulse.