If your portfolio is cooler than this, I'll give you $10

I'm really enjoying this one. Even though he's Canadian.

On-point messaging

Is Apple's message attack or attract?

Phridaze 2/28/8

If only they would make it a movie. Wait-

Morbid curiosity.

Sigar Røs does UGC mashup - Minn Heima. Who ISN'T doing this right now?

And the contest site.

And Sigar Røs site.

Architecture awesome.

A network blog about blogging and networks.

closer to zen.

multi-use tape. ahem.

Abott and Costello in kinetic typography. Wonderful.

and Ocean's 11.

and Full Metal Jacket.

and The Matrix.

and an old PSA.

and a music video.

and another.

Bacon-flavored rolling paper.

it's gonna take a lot of shots.

OK, so the cream-filled pancakes do look pretty good.

I like this idea more for the name than the product.

Home delivery of your cleanse juices - if you live in NY or CT.

Hot candy.

coolio LED table.

OK there's Line Rider. Then there's this.

Read by candle light for one hour.

So the Dali Lama and a brain surgeon are in an elevator...

So you think you can balance California's budget? Take the test.

Check out the band aid Chuck Taylors (long load).

46 of 50 for me.

Best elevator rides EVAR.

Fantastic sleeve art.

Starck laments that the new designer is your personal coach. Man's gotta
point.

Social Networking and Politics

Why Obama will win, and how file sharing is relevant.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/us/politics/27voters.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Guitar Hero Jumps Shark

I'm sorry but two, nay, almost three full retail games release in the span of a year spells one thing... death of a brand. I can't figure out for the life of me why they aren't doing stuff like this with downloadable content(DLC) instead of a $50 retail package... seems a bit near sited. RockBand just cleared 6million in song downloads at 2 bucks a pop, and they aren't going to be doing anything but DLC for the next year. Granted I am holding out hope for a horn and maybe a keytar for the game, at least they are dealing with distribution in a forward thinking approach. Game retailers are starting to freak out, I mean seriously why go to a store when you can get your game of the network. It solves so many issues for software manufactures, piracy and overhead would certainly be lower and that equals cheaper for the end users.

We need to start entering contests like this...

Think about something for Mavricks like this. Some type of underwater creature made out out of surf gear and organics

SEO Rap

Which OS will get hacked first?

Money-where-your-mouth-is competition: Vista v Linux v Mac.
From Gizmodo

I'll say it again ...

... I love ads that don't need words and a picture but can do it all so well with just one or the other. From adsoftheworld.com

The worst execution of Mr. Potato Head i've ever seen

My mom sent this to me, and thought it was really cool:

http://www.cs.utk.edu/~ffowler/javahtml/potato/Potato.html

I mean, could they have at least masked out the Potato...

jw

Losing my mind...

Knowing is half the battle... oh yes indeed. Cobra Commander may be wandering into the land of WTF from what we saw from Massive Black's stray email, but at least they got my boy Snake Eyes right. And get this Star Wars geeks the guy that played Darth Maul is playing him.



http://www.aintitcool.com/node/36084

Music is my Boyfriend.

Was trollin' the net this weekend, found some great new grooves, and I just added it to my shared iTunes under O's New Hotness Mar/Apr08. Also tossed in some great stuff that I've been meaning to bring in. Adding more as I find it.

Enjoy.

I'm loving the internet today.

I Still Don't Get the Mac Ads ...

It's not the fact that most of their ads are a far stretch at best (often, they're just factually wrong), or that they aren't well written. It's the fact that they are all attack ads. And that they've been running for years now.

Here's the deal with attack ads (in my opinion). They can be great in small doses. Short bursts. Used to disrupt the market and get people talking. However, in a sustained long-term campaign they start to piss people off and make you look a bit desperate. I think this is especially true when you're in a category where people are spending hundreds, often thousands, of dollars. You're telling people that they just made a poor $1500 decision. You're calling them stupid. And no matter how cute you are when you do it, or how funny John Hodgeman is, deep down inside the consumer knows you're calling them stupid. And calling a potential customer stupid for years on end is, well, stupid. Just read the comments on this YouTube post.

Freakiest Thing I've Seen All Weekend

From pixeloo.

Experimental Games, Cool T-Shirts, and Target. Yes, the do all belong together.

Design a game in 7 days by yourself. Give it away from free via download. Become and Independent Games Festival award nominee. Have EPG Apparel pick up you designs and make cool shirt out of them. Sell them to middle class high schoolers all over the world.

Post from BoingBoing

Cool ATARI ads from New Zealand

I guess these are supposed to reference the heritage and history ATARI has in making sports video games. Too bad they've been shoveling out virtual crap for the last 10 years. Either way, I like the simplicity of the idea. I love ads that don't need words (or headlines that don't need visuals). These were done by an agency called Republic. Anyone ever heard of 'em?

Post from Kotaku with bigger pics.

Zonday's original Chocolate Rain wins the 07 YouTube for Music

http://www.youtube.com/ytawards07winners

Gotta see it again

Dynamite Surfing - video powered by Metacafe

Adobe begins iphone flash work

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/03/18/adobe_begins_work_on_flash_player_for_iphone.html

Adobe begins iphone flash work

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/03/18/adobe_begins_work_on_flash_player_for_iphone.html

Spy Hunter Pontiac Ad... AWESOME!

My Score: 22

http://www.howmanyfiveyearoldscouldyoutakeinafight.com/

Cool German Converse Site

Check out this cool site for Converse. In particular, check out the Katalog. Very cool, but simple, way to integrate the brand and navigate. It's also a great demonstration of our bandwidth issues in the office.

http://www.converse.de

A solution for low-budget broadcast production

How about we hire these folks:

UGC TOD Mar 6, 2008 11:42 a.m.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/119091

interesting compositions

http://www.sleeveface.com/

using record albums covers to composite with reality