Bus shelters ostensibly exist to keep you relatively dry while you wait for an inevitably late public transit vehicle and fantasize about how nice it would be to have a car. Bus shelters in Australia, other hand, also let you play some tunes. Oh, and taunt you about how you don’t have a car. NRMA Insurance, which offers car insurance, is the organization behind the madness, and is using bus shelter adspace to install speakers that you can use to blare music at fellow bus-takers while you all wait.

These Finnish AIDS Council ads are not only eye-catching and mark genitals with Internet map markers, but imitate Facebook Places, which is essentially Facebook’s Foursquare style check-in feature. There’s something extremely visceral about “checking in” to people and how many other people “checked in” previously. Check out the male version of the ad after the jump.

In light of Google’s new privacy policy changes, Microsoft has released a jab at Google in the form of a new Gmail Man video ironically, as I’m sure you’ll note, hosted on Google-owned YouTube. Whether you agree with the Microsoft ad –because it is an ad, after all– or not, it’s hard not to appreciate the that little girl’s expression when she finds out where ads come from. Personally, I think everyone is over-reacting anyways. I hardly ever say anything important over gmail anyways; I usually use GChat, or text from my Android phone. Whatever. Come over here Big Brother! Gimme a big hug!

First it was Matthew Broderick reprising the role of Ferris Bueller to promote Honda, now another Super Bowl car commercial features Jerry Seinfeld reuniting with the Soup Nazi in order to promote the new Acura NSX. The video, seen after the break, features Seinfeld following around some guy in order to pry the first Acura NSX off his hands, offering him a wide variety of add services and products in the Acura’s place. One of those products is the Soup Nazi, who sternly spouts, “Soup for you,” a variant on, well, you know. How do you feel about this year’s Super Bowl resurrecting some of your old favorite characters in order to promote cars?

Last week, a ten second teaser starring Matthew Broderick surfaced, in which he seemingly took on the role of Ferris Bueller once again. It was a bit mysterious, but we all knew it was for some kind of promotion. Well, it turns out the whole campaign is to promote Honda. Specifically, the CR-V. It also turns out that Broderick isn’t technically assuming the role of Ferris Bueller once again, as he’s referred to as Matthew Broderick in the ad, though just about everything else regarding the ad is Ferris Bueller — including the music, Broderick’s speech mannerisms, as well as all of the gags.

There are plenty of videos of people microwaving crazy things on YouTube, so what makes this any different? A lot: It’s a very to-the-point supercut, it’s high quality, it’s in a clean microwave, it’s in slow motion, and it’s actually a viral advertisment for Moe’s Southwest Grill. Still, it’s an absolute pleasure to watch, and Moe’s Southwest Grill is fantastic; no one has to pay me to say that. So if you want to watch some stuff explode in a microwave, but not sacrifice your own safety or microwave, give it a watch. Also, the bluegrass soundtrack? Transcendental.

Yesterday, Aaron Wall of SEO Book made an interesting discovery: If you did a Google search for “This post is sponsored by Google,” you’d get a whole bunch results that were relatively hollow, content-thin endorsements of Google Chrome. You know, the kind of sponsored content that’s more about mentioning a name and dropping a link more than anything else. The problem? Google’s own rules say that paid links have to be designated as such, so they won’t affect a page’s PageRank. These links were not, and the penalty could be painful.

Adblock Plus, the sophisticated surfer’s best friend, is trying something that is sure to make waves: Adblock Plus is going to start showing “Acceptable Ads” by default. Yep. There’s no arguing that this flies in the face of, well, Adblock’s very name, but there’s actually some very strong logic behind it if you give it a little bit of thought. The assumption is, however, that most user’s won’t give it a little thought, which is why it’s going to be enabled by default. Don’t worry though, you can turn it off if you really, really want to.

Internet behemoths like Facebook and Google are starting to get miffed about the increasing trend of browser apps that are effectively stealing their adspace out from under them by giving their own ads a priority spot. Adception, if you will. It seems that the prime culprits are applications from the Sambreel suite, namely PageRage and Buzzdock. Ostensibly, the purpose of these applications is to do stuff like make your Facebook page look pretty by slathering it with hearts, stars, and horseshoes or whatever. You know. Important stuff. As it turns out, however, a big part of the plan may involve pushing ads.

Currently, the Samsung Galaxy S II is seen as the iPhone’s biggest competitor. So, instead of getting the edge over their rivals by showing everyone whatever unique features the Galaxy S II sports, Samsung decided to insult Apple consumers — not even Apple the company, but the people who buy their products — for the length of a commercial.