POWERBALLS

Get lucky: Just because you win the lottery doesn’t mean you’re lucky—or maybe getting that lucky means that your luck has just run out. Either way, entertainment blog Ego TV wants to introduce you to seven people whose lives were ruined by winning the lottery, when they lost it all by shooting at people, betraying their families and—here’s a shocker—gambling more. Oh yeah, and they also buy lots of drugs and crash cars. Pick a lucky number at bit.ly/9FL7Ni.

Channel surf: You’ve been Tivo-ing and Bittorrent-ing so long, you don’t even remember what commercials look like—but sometimes they’re more entertaining than the shows they interrupt, especially when they’re directed by John Woo or Michel Gondry, feature billions of busty women running on the beach, sexy French CG people getting it on or harnessing the power of beer to physically move the world. AdFreak presents the 25 best ads that aren’t Apple’s 1984, and they may be even better than Apple’s big-brother-smasher at http://bit.ly/9nMeqJ.