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Jun 24 2008 12:00am EDT

Idle Chatter: Naked Cowboy Rides On, more

-Newly-retired New York Giant Michael Strahan is joining Fox Sports Sunday as an analyst. [THR]

-A judge has ruled the Naked Cowboy of Times Square has a case against M&M, which parodied his likeness in a commercial. [Reuters]

-A whole mess of Japanese-style game shows are about to hit American TV. Think humiliation. [NYT]

-Google has developed a new web audience measurement service for advertisers. And it's free. [WSJ]

-A J.C. Penney commercial won a prize at Cannes! One snag: The retailer says the ad, which shows teenagers practicing to have sex without getting caught, was created and submitted without its knowledge. ([WSJ]

This is the ad in question:

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