NBC 10’s Hot New Web Feature

Oh, but the front-page fun isn’t done yet! Here’s a story that popped up on the front of WCAU’s website (now called nbcphiladelphia.com, if you’re keeping track of these things):

Yes! Apparently, somebody who works for the website decided to write a whole article about a kind of tongue-in-cheek blog about why there are so many women wearing headsets in stock photos on company websites. “While they can be a comforting face in a confusing online world, they are just as often a default design component,” the site’s about page reads. “This website celebrates the former and challenges the latter.”

So what’s up with this? Is it some Pherotones-style marketing gimmick? An actual fetish? What say you, local NBC affiliate:

They say there’s a fetish for everything, so we suppose we shouldn’t be terribly surprised to find out some people really, really get into those stock photographs of women wearing telephone headsets.

It’s not really a fetish — it’s more of a “throwaway gimmick blog” — but I’ll let this one slide even though it didn’t really answer any of my questions about the site. The story’s only two paragraphs, but the title intrigues me: It seems to imply this is a new feature, Random Fetish, that will be gracing the website of NBC 10 each and every day (kind of like Abridged Daily News Columnists!).

I, for one, am wholly behind this new feature. I can’t wait ’til someone’s Tumblr account exposes the fetish for other corporate website design elements besides headset-wearing women.

Traffic Makes Obama Cry

Here’s NBC 10’s report on traffic today, and how it is a bitch! They chose to illustrate it with a photo of Barack Obama crying over his dead grandmother, of course.

Traffic is a B*$@#! [NBC 10]
Thanks, RJ

Don’t You Have Any Remorse?

The story of the Jeweler’s Row peeping tom never really took off, perhaps because it didn’t have hilarious characters like a guy in a pimp hat. Anyway, NBC 10 finally made this a story worth commenting on when Deanna Durante somehow made him crash into a wall. He seems to walk into the wall himself and crash into Durante; it’s clearly some sort of Jedi mind trick.

After the collision, Benjamin Sorkin hilariously asks Durante what’s wrong with her and she then immediately throws the red flag and calls for instant replay.

Thanks, Meech

Sarge In Postseason Form

Apparently, NBC 10’s Dawn Timmeney got hit by a ball thrown by Phillies ambassador of fun Scott Palmer during a live shot at the ballpark yesterday. It was supposed to hit Sarge Matthews; even though it missed his reaction shot makes the prank completely worth it.

Update: This is the best graf in the article:

Matthews was voted most valuable player of the 1983 National League Championship Series and helped lead the Phillies past the Dodgers to the World Series. History could repeat itself when the Dodgers show up for the first game of this year’s NLCS in Philadelphia on Thursday.

Reader Joe writes: “If Sarge is named MVP and helps guide the Phillies to the World Series I’ll be quite impressed.”

Ball Hits Timmeney During Phillies Live Shot [NBC 10]