Google Goofs Up "Bourne," Threadless Contests?

Google’s “Bourne Ultimatum” and Threadless t-shirt contests both looked like fun - and potentially rewarding - activities, but they’ve (so far) failed to impress.  The Bourne site is suffering from a number of technical problems; the Threadless competition appears to have outlawed a perfectly natural course of action.

Google tried, and by many accounts, it failed.  Following a Google Blogoscoped,  and says he got a message stating, “The reason your design was declined is: The design contains copyrighted material.”

Still, whoever manages to make their way past these problems and win the Bourne and Threadless contests stands to win a Touareg 2 and $2,000, respectively.  It’s hard to get too annoyed with Google when prizes like that are at stake.