Click here for a look at 15 more creative approaches to the non-traditional ad placement.

DirecTV recently caught some heat for featuring a legendary Tommy Boy scene with Chris Farley in an advertisement (after the jump). Quick to the punch is LandlineTV, which filmed potential follow-ups for the channel.

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This infographic details how swine flu stacks up as a killer compared to all of the other death-causers from the past 300 days.  Click image for larger.

via flickr

I find it hard to be sensitive about this story.

Mr Mason hungrily devours three family-size takeaway meals a night, The Sun reports.

He eats 20,000 calories per day, compared to the average male’s intake of 2500.

In case you’re not planning to click thru to learn more, he weighs nearly 1,000 pounds.

This animation is astounding.  Click here to watch the economic swing over time (be sure to hit play).

This will no doubt be the worst thing you hear all week.

A few weeks ago, Desiree Jennings was training for a half marathon. Now, she’s struggling to walk, talk and even eat.

According to the Loudoun Times-Mirror , Jennings, who has been working with the Washington Redskins as an ambassador in hopes of becoming a cheerleader since April, developed severe and possibly life-threatening side effects from getting a seasonal flu vaccine seven weeks ago at a Safeway in Reston.

As Colorado authorities continue to search for Falcon Heene, check out this 2008 local news feature on the family:

He felt that he had sinned by selling the creatures for profit in the past, so he decided to repent by giving thousands of them a home.  mmmmk.

Guy Lives With 4,600 Scorpions - The most amazing videos are a click away

Just stating the obvious, but I don’t think you’d ever see any sort of advertisement for this product in America.

Meteorologists claim this freakish cloud over Moscow is no big deal, but I’d certainly start racking my brain for Will Smith - Tom Cruise survival tactics after seeing this.

A Saudi court on Wednesday sentenced a man who caused uproar by bragging about his sex life on television to five years in prison and 1,000 lashes, according to Ministry of Information officials.

You read that right. Mazen Abdul Jawad will receive 1,000(!?!?!) lashes for openly talking on TV about being a pimp.  I imagine he’ll  have learned his lesson after lash 2, but why not reinforce 998 more times?

[CNN]