Have you seen the commercials for One a Day Teen Advantage vitamins? I keep seeing them because we've gotten hopelessly addicted to NCIS and House reruns on USA. It's a disease.

Anyway, if I were a teen girl, I would be pretty pissed off. The commercial says that there are vitamins designed for teen boys and for teen girls. That's fine - teen boys and teen girls have different vitamin needs, so it only makes sense to have different vitamins for each of them.

But the commercial and their website only mention that girls want healthy skin, and boys want healthy muscles.

Complete Multivitamins for Teen Boys & Girls to Support:
* Healthy muscle function with Magnesium (for Him)
* Healthy skin with Vitamins A and C, Copper, and Iron (for Her)

Now, as I said, I'm not a teen girl, nor was I ever a teen girl, or a girl of any kind. But I feel I can speak for them when I say that girls need muscles, too. You know, for exercising and playing sports and moving.

Does One a Day Teen Advantage really think that the only thing girls might get (or want) from their vitamins is healthy skin? That sounds like a pretty worthless vitamin.

Those of you who use Google Finance to track the implosion of your stock portfolio have probably noticed that they've moved the graph that tracks the Dow and the S&P over to make room for a big box of ads.

I'm curious why they did that. Not only does it look a little out of place, but do people really go to Google Finance looking to buy something? If they offered a cheap way to buy stock, I could understand that. But the ad it's showing me now is "Free Grants for Finances", whatever that means. It doesn't seem to really fit in with their typical strategy of unobtrusive, targeted ads.

I suppose it doesn't cost them anything, and could bring in plenty of money, but it could also backfire by annoying long-time users like me by taking up a pretty large chunk of prime screen real estate.

I hope they don't make any money off the ads and decide to remove them.