TVDays calls itself “the official video network for baby boomers.” It’s worth adding to your bookmarks list.

They have all kinds of DVDs for sale, of course. Pro wrestling. Entertainment specials. News reports. Ahhh, but the commercials: That’s what you really want, isn’t it?

There are plenty of DVDs of commercials for sale, but there’s also a lot of material you can view right now for free, from the White Knight of Ajax to Excedrin headache #1040 (featuring Match Game icon Charles Nelson Reilly getting audited) to weird food animation to Frank Sinatra hawking Chesterfields and dozens more.

On a gloomy, rainy Sunday like this (at least it’s gloomy and rainy where I am), clicking around TVDays is a fun way to spend some time.

Takeaway for marketers: Anyone who works in marketing today should take a bit of time to see how it was done yesterday. It may help in figuring out how to do it tomorrow.

Google is buying DoubleClick. For $3.1 billion. Cash.

“Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.”
—Kurt Vonnegut

Here’s a list of the nominees for the 11th annual Webby Awards. Who will the winners and losers be? Who cares! The nominee list alone is as good a source as any for identifying several hundred of the best sites, blogs and Web ads out there at this moment in time. (Time suck alert: Once you start exploring the nominee sites, you’re likely to keep at it for a while.)

Okay, BrandDame, you win a blogroll. It’s not enough that you give good read with smart brandvertising observations set to a Bettie Page beat, but you had to go and follow up your posting of my company’s first teevee spot with a Hulk Hogan spot from Japan. Sheesh, that’s about half my working life represented right there. Post something about Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey next and I’m giving M. Night Shyamalan a call.