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Computing | by Barb Dybwad | Wed Jul 1, 2009 1:26PM | 1 comment

How many layers of management do these things make it through to get approved, with no one injecting sense and reason into the process along the way? It's astonishing. The above ad is merely odd, a couple of the others in the series are equally odd, but I have to agree with Harry McCracken over at Technologizer that the following "use IE8 or you'll projectile vomit all over your husband" ad is flat out disgusting. If you've just eaten you might not want to watch this one after the break. Seriously, is this supposed to be "cutting edge"? It's just gross.

Am I the only one who feels more turned off by IE than ever?!

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Anonymous (6:20 PM on Thu Jul 2, 2009)

Did you think the pulled @IE ad was bad? Funny? Can you do better? Here's your chance http://bit.ly/17mYqu! IE8 is offering you (me, anyone!) the chance to make their own video and your video could be used in IE8's marketing campaign!

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