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The Super Bowl is supposed to be a face-off between the two best football teams, but it's also a free-for-all among corporations as they scramble for your advertising dollars. This year seemed a touch uninspired, but a few ads were either funny enough or odd enough to stand out. Bostonist braved all the commercials and brings the best to you. We'd also like to hear your thoughts on the ads in the comments.

If it hasn't been drilled into your head by now let us be the umpteen thousandth to tell you - Barack Obama went to Harvard Law. He was the first black president of the Harvard Law review. He is currently a US Senator from Illinois. He's also running for President of the United States, well, at least he's formed an exploratory committee to seek the Democratic nomination (thanks two-party system). Last week the New York...

This being Boston, we can't hope (nor should we want, truth be told) to get the volume of celebrity sightings that Gawker does in New York. As such, we have to content ourselves with the usual cast of stodgy intellectuals and fresh-faced plagiarists who trudge through Cambridge from time to time. (And Michael Dukakis. Bostonist and Mrs. Bostonist saw the Duke standing on Arlington Street one morning last week, and we were more than a little excited, even though he's around all the time and not nearly as glamorous or coked up as Lindsay Lohan.) So when a top-secret informer told Bostonist that former Attorney General Janet Reno was spotted in the Harvard Club last night drinking a Beefeater martini, straight up, one olive, we were like, "meh." But then our source told us that Reno really did look exactly like Will Ferrell playing Janet Reno on Saturday Night Live (see photo), and we felt that was amusing enough that we should mention it here.