Two random things...宇部花火大会 and カメパン

This is a Doraemon firework from last Saturday's Hanabi Festival in Ube. I suck at taking pictures.


Kamepan ATTACK!

A Series of Interesting CMs: 牛乳に相談だ The Japan Dairy Council

牛乳に相談だ (ぎゅうにゅうにそうだんだ/gyuunyuu ni soudanda/Can someone give me a reasonable sounding translation of this?) is a campaign by the Japan Dairy Council (中央酪農会議) aimed at getting young people in Japan to drink milk again. Someone might want to tell them about their main page title: Welcow to 日本の酪農 -社団法人中央酪農会議-.
Anyway, there have been a series of commercials:
Milk enables student to take on his chalk wielding teacher:

(thanks to Youtube user gooooopon)

Milk helps student battle lion and save the girl/Milk makes student so popular she is caught in a flood of love letters/the chalk one again:

(thanks to Youtube user countsei)

Milk makes mom and daughter...um...

(thanks to Youtube user ajibee)

Which is your favorite?
(Note: There are a couple of other videos (one about basketball and one about synchronized swimming) that I haven't found yet.)

You have to admit that these are much more interesting than the milk commercials I had to watch when I was growing up:

(thanks to Youtube user panbiscuit)

Although possibly not as interesting as this:

(thanks to youtube user nerrad712).

2ch wants you to be safe! 2ちゃんねるコンドーム

From Gigazine.
That ubiquitous Japanese internet presence 2ch is doing their part to keep people safe in Japan. From September 1st, the official (as in officially sanctioned by the guy that "runs" 2ch) 2ch condom will hit convenience stores and drug stores around Japan.
The box (but not the condoms themselves, I think anyway) features the 2ch mascot(s).
There will be 8 per box at the price of 1050 yen.
The official site is here.
But does it come with a case?