There are 391 blogs in the AdAge Power 150, a listing of the top 150 media and marketing blogs. Math aside, it’s a good listing: Click randomly and explore all kinds of interesting goodies.

(I guess LOHAD comes in at 393, give or take one or two, right, Todd? Sheesh, now I know how Kathy Griffin feels.)

AUGUST 12 UPDATE: Thanks, AdAge: There are now 393 blogs in the list — and LOHAD is bubbling under the top 340, at number 344. That may not put me in the official 150, but I scored 13 out of 15 Todd Points, which is the same as Seth Godin and AdRants and one more more than Tom Peters. Boo-yah!

“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called Everybody, and they meet at the bar.”
—Drew Carey

No, it’s not that. They’re all part of this article from Slate about ads worthy of your hatred.

John C. Dvorak is the crankiest of the Cranky Geeks. Even so, he usually has a pretty smart finger on the pulse of the tech world. This PC Magazine column about Bubble 2.0 is worth reading.

Takeaway for marketers: There’s a lot of smoke and mirrors out there. Still.

Today is the 81st birthday of Stan Freberg, who has probably had as much of an impact on American advertising as anyone. He won 21 Clio Awards as he created some of the greatest commercials of the late-’50s and early-’60s.

You can run a search for Freberg on YouTube. A lot of his commercials have been pulled for copyright violations, but you’ll still find a few here and there. Meanwhile, here’s a 1989 interview with Freberg, here’s a 1991 interview, here’s a 1999 interview and here’s a classic Butter-Nut Coffee “subliminal advertising” spot, posted on iFilm.

If that’s not enough Freberg for you, trundle on over to Amazon and check out Tip of the Freberg and Stan Freberg Presents The United States of America.

Takeaway for marketers: A little humor goes a long way.