1. The Late Show With David Letterman Ad with Dave, Oprah, and Jay Leno - This is the one ad that made you go what, wait, what? Plus, it was funny and a brilliant marketing move for both Jay and Dave, even though it was supposed to be an ad for >The Late Show. It got people talking about both of them. Plus, it was a nice play off the Dave and Oprah ad from 2007 when CBS has the Super Bowl last.
   
   Ad Result: While my favorite, it won’t get me watching either of the late night hosts’ shows.
2. Snickers Ad with Betty White and Abe Vigoda - This was the first ad that at least got me chuckling. Great representation of not feeling like yourself, even if a Snickers bar won’t really get you going, the ad was funny. Plus, Betty White is the queen of comedy and has a great sense of humor about herself, which is showed off quite well in the ad.
   
   Ad Result: I won’t be buying any more Snickers than I already occasionally do.
3. Bud Light Stranded Ad - Nice parody of Lost, which right now is at the top of my TV viewing thinking, so really liked this one.
   
   Ad Result: I don’t drink, so had no shot of working.
4. Doritos House Rules Ad - Little kids are funny, especially when they do something you aren’t expecting, like telling his mother’s suitor to keep his hands of his mother and his Doritos.
   
   Ad Result: I won’t be buying any more Doritos than I already occasionally do.
5. Google Parisian Love Ad - It’s always interesting just how little you actually need to tell a compelling story, like a few search terms for example. It was cute, told a nice story, but didn’t quite get the people that were getting all weepy over it, it wasn’t that good of a story. Mostly, I was just shocked to see an ad for Google on my TV, as I don’t recall ever seeing one before.
   
   Ad Result: I already pretty much use Google as my main search engine and wasn’t planning on changing anytime soon.
6. Bridgestone Your Tires or Your Life Ad - I’m just partial to misunderstood words and sound a likes in my comedy, so enjoyed this one. But, seriously didn’t expect the wife to be hot.
   
   Ad Result: Don’t see myself seeking out any Bridgestone tires the next time I need new tires.
7. HomeAway.com Hotel Hell Vacation Trailer Ad - It’s the Griswolds on vacation, so I’m in right off the bat. Haven’t gone and watched the whole short film yet, but probably will.
   
   Ad Result: May get me to their site to watch the entire video, but doubt I will be using their service to book any future trips.

So, overall there weren’t a lot of very memorable commercials and the ones that were don’t really do a good job at what a commercial is supposed to do, get you interested in spending your money on their product or service.

People who down two or more soft drinks a week may have double the risk of developing deadly pancreatic cancer, compared to non-soda drinkers, new research suggests.
Click here to find out more!But the overall number of people developing the malignancy remains low, with the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) estimating 42,470 new cases last year.

“Soft drinks are linked with a higher risk of pancreatic cancer,” said Noel Mueller, lead author of a study appearing in the February issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. “We can’t speculate too much on the mechanism because this is an observational study, but the increased risk may be working through effects of the hormone insulin.”

Still, the report should not cause undue alarm, some say.

“The study was well designed but smaller than some previous studies that did not find a link between sugar-sweetened soft drinks and pancreatic cancer,” noted Eric Jacobs, strategic director of pharmacoepidemiology at the American Cancer Society. “Direct evidence linking sugar-sweetened soft drinks to pancreatic cancer remains limited.”

And adult soda drinkers may also engage in other lifestyle habits, such as smoking, which could contribute to the elevated risk.

“It’s an interesting finding but if you look at the people who had the high soft drink intake, they also had other issues that may also predispose you to pancreatic cancer,” said Dr. Colin D. Weekes, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Colorado Denver. “It’s hard to make any true associations from this. “We could argue that smoking could be the issue here and not the soda intake.”

Although the study didn’t differentiate between regular and diet soda, it was conducted in Singapore, where most soda consumed is regular, Mueller said.

The study was a collaboration between the University of Minnesota and National University of Singapore. Mueller, formerly at Minnesota, has since joined Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, DC, as a research associate.

The analysis involved more than 60,000 middle-aged or older Chinese Singaporeans. Researchers calculated how much juice and soda the participants drank on average and followed them for 14 years to see how many developed cancer of the pancreas.

Those who drank two or more sodas a week were 87 percent more likely to develop this kind of tumor than individuals who didn’t consume any soda.

Researchers found no link between juice consumption and cancer risk, perhaps because fruit juice has less effect than sugary sodas on glucose and insulin levels, the authors noted.

Previous research in U.S. and European populations has suggested an association between sweetened sodas and juices and pancreatic cancer. This is the first study to examine the association in an Asian population, although the authors feel the findings can be extrapolated to Western nations.

“We believe that because Singaporean adults have a lot of the same mannerisms as Western countries, which is a tendency to eat fast food and also go shopping, one could say that these findings may be generalizable to other Western countries,” said Mueller. “Genetically they are very different from Caucasians, however their lifestyle is similar to Western countries.”

The findings are biologically plausible.

Type 2 diabetes, a disorder of blood sugar levels and insulin under-activity, has also tentatively been linked to pancreatic cancer.

The researchers speculate that elevated blood sugar levels associated with soda-drinking and the associated increase in insulin levels prompt pancreatic cells to divide abnormally.

“Drinking sugar-sweetened soft drinks has been linked to weight gain, obesity and diabetes. Both obesity and diabetes are associated with higher risk of pancreatic cancer, one of the leading causes of cancer death in the United States,” Jacobs said.

The soft drink industry disputed the findings, however.

“The [study] authors are skipping several steps in trying to connect soft drinks with pancreatic cancer, including an allegation regarding an increase in insulin production,” Richard Adamson, a consultant to the American Beverage Association and former scientific director of the NCI, said in a statement.

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Just shy of her two-year anniversary, Jessica Alba is refuting rumors of a November kissing incident between her husband, Cash Warren, and Lindsay Lohan - and says she doesn’t get as worked up about such tabloid “lies” as she used to.

“Lindsay’s had to deal with this for so long,” Alba, 28, tells the U.K. edition of Cosmopolitan for its March issue. “Everyone has to live their life, and that’s what people forget when you’re in this business - she’s really nice. We hang out and chat for hours about girl stuff.”


Dismissing tabloid reports that Warren was caught kissing Lohan in November, Alba, 28, adds that she and Warren, 31, might even make a TV show about “the ridiculousness of tabloids.”

“When people wrote lies about me before I had [my daughter] Honor, I’d get upset or I’d get nauseous or I’d get angry or I’d want revenge,” Alba says. “Now, it’s like, it’s just so ridiculous and it’s not even close to being the truth.”