Apparently our beloved cartoon characters from the past… um… sixty years just aren’t connecting with modern kids. So a large-scale effort seems to be in the works to update old characters and sell them to picky Gen Z-ers. Take Strawberry Shortcake, for example:

Old Strawberry Shortcake is on the left, New Strawberry Shortcake is on the right. Other makeovers in the works include the Care Bares, Mickey Mouse, and all of the Looney Toons.
I can’t wait to see what they do with Rainbow Bright. (She was already such a cutie.)

I think the real question, however, remains: Why can’t the entertainment industry come up with new stuff ever?!?!?

Thanks to the New York Times for this one.

It’s that simple. Excellent spoof on A few good men. Thanks Mark Hornung.

Our good friends at SFist (they don’t know they’re our good friends but we’ve been stalking them for quite some time now and we’re sure they’ll love us once we’ve softened them up by keeping them in the MortarBasement for a few weeks) managed to snag a three-question interview with San Francisco Chronicle Executive Editor, Phil Bronstein aka, the former Mr. Sharon Stone.

And, contrary to the title of this post, one of those questions was not “What are three things that haunt your dreams?”

Wow, this is something you want to avoid at all costs.

See that big orange AT&T / Samsung ad? I mean, how could you miss it, really.
Most of the pages I go to on Wired.com has that flash ad that just shows up and covers a large section of the page. There is no close button or any other way to remove the ad; it even covers up the global navigation on the home page…  ultra-bad juju.

It is making some folks pretty peeved – read some of their verbatim comments below: they are talking boycotting both AT&T and Wired.
   

Can’t close advert with either firefox or internet explorer – better fix it wired
   
It’s pretty poor representation for your brand. Totally unusable.
   

AT&T
   
last time i visit wired for a while, whos with me on the boycott?
   

Boycott AT&T
   
Seriously, WTF? Wired should be able to do better than this crap.

Good thing Tony Soprano isn’t around anymore, or a boycott would be the least of their worries.