  A peripheral issue that we'll be dealing with tomorrow is advertising -- and the role that celebrities play in advertising.
I had these links sitting around and they're pretty interested for those of you who are interested in advertising -- urlLink this site gives a cultural history of "anti-ads" (very much like the SPRITE strategy that was featured in Merchants of Cool . urlLink Douglas Rushkoff (whose urlLink blog I really enjoy reading) traces a history of advertising in his book.
He was the host of Merchants of Cool More on the danger posed to *truth* in the urlLink anti-ad from Salon.com, and then this urlLink very disturbing piece compares advertising to psychological torture -- but then again, anything adbusters does intrigues me... In some ways celebrity advertising -- particularly traditional celebrity advertising is much more naive than the anti-ad, but Madison Avenue is finding ways to integrate celebrity appeals into the anti-ad... 
