A 24/7 TV channel of nothing but revolving rotisserie chicken? That's a reality -- if you live in Canada.

To promote its Windows 7 phone, Microsoft brought ito life its personalization feature, in the form of shadowboxes (those glass-covered display cases) featuring dolls hand-sewn to resemble 60 national bloggers.

They say everyone's an ad critic, especially when it comes to Super Bowl ads. This morning, I checked <USA Today's Ad Meter, mainly because it's part of my job. I long ago gave up on the meter as a proper representation of what most viewers like and dislike.