Smurfs Hit the Silver Screen

“WAS ‘GOT SMURF’ taken? Why not ‘Smurf Matters’? Or ‘Just Smurf It’? or an obvious play on another corporate slogan that’s 20 years old now?”
— Filmdrunk.uproxx.com finds much fault with the Web site for the upcoming smurfs movie, Smurfhappens.com, after the release of a teaser trailer.

“IF BARTON WANTED to keep heat on the White House over its interactions with BP, this is a poor way of going about it. BP doesn’t require any apologies at the moment — at least not until we know what happened.”
— not even Hotair.com, a staunchly conservative blog, had anything positive to say about Texas Rep. Joe Barton’s apology to bp for the White House’s “shakedown.”

“AOL BUYING BEBO for $850 million and then selling two years later for $10 million doesn’t seem like a winning strategy.”
— Former AOL CEO Steve Case’s tweet on the company’s latest financial disaster drew sneers from those who remember the failed AOL-Time Warner merger he helped broker in 2000.