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Sony's got balls...

wtf?

an image of a bunch of colored bouncy balls pooring down a sidewalk

Check out this Sony commercial where they unleashed a ton o' balls on an SF hill. Or as Sean put it:

Follow up:

You think the last thing I'd ever do is point you to a megacorporation's TV commercial. At least without being paid. Yet here I am doing it. Because you've gotta see it.

A couple of months ago they dumped more than 250,000 colored rubber bouncy-balls on a typical hill in San Francisco and just filmed the balls bouncing down the steep streets, and set it to music. It's a beautiful thing and it's so San Francisco. So when you can spare 5 minutes:

http://www.bravia-advert.com/commercial/braviacommhigh.html

(That link doesn't work for me. But, from the command-line using wget (or by hitting Opt-click in FireFox) you can download the file which is here: http://www.bravia-advert.com/includes/vid/bravia_60_sec_high.mov Although you've got to have QuickTime 7 to view this movie (as it use's H.264))