For Granada, the company made The Magic Ball (1971-72), a gentle series of cartoon shorts involving a boy named Sam, narrated by Eric Thompson.
Mike Shanahan's mix of West Coast passing and zone blocking will be a welcome relief for Washington, which consulted a magic eight ball for plays last season.
In previous years, Ms. Whitney's office mates came dressed as a Christmas tree, a magic eight ball, a loofah — and Wall Street icons like a Seamless Web bill and, of course, Jamie Dimon.
Yet another, Urbanspoon, is "a cross between a magic eight ball and a slot machine:" you shake the phone, and it randomly displays the name of a good restaurant nearby, using the iPhone's G.P.S. and motion sensor.
If the Amazing Kreskin, Miss Cleo and the ghost of Carnac the Magnificent were put in a room with a Magic 8 ball in January, none would have predicted that Bartolo Colon would be the Yankees' de facto No. 2 starter behind C. C. Sabathia, the indispensable ace.
Well no wonder the magazine got it so wrong: it's not that it is about as reliable as a Magic 8 ball, it's that even Poor Jen didn't foresee the proposal so there was no way Grazia could, what with it having a direct linkup to her brain.
The attack included a mobile application that allows users to shake their phones like a magic eight ball and get Hancock's answer to any question.
Predicting what Google may do in 2008 is about as accurate as predicting the future using a Magic 8 ball; you can make educated guesses but it's nothing more than that.
The ad initially just looks like another mobile banner, but when you tap on it, it opens into a magic 8 ball promoting the fictional Alpha deodorant brand (with the slogan, "Don't sweat it").
Needless to say, even though the finished product may look perfect after being run through generations of abrasives and polishes, it is still tethered to the existing parts and impromptu selections made in the past; life doesn't have a "Magic 8 Ball" or a chop shop to go through a catalog of all the best pieces life has to offer and then "soup-up" a cell (well, beyond a certain degree).
