blog archive for September, 2007

glass and a half full

Cadbury just kicked off a new ad campaign with a huge, soon to be award winning, bang. Cadbury Dairy Milk - Gorilla is a work of advertising genius.

Creative Review blog explains that this is from the ad agency Fallon, but more importantly is written and directed by Juan Cabral, the guy who was the creative […]


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harmonica beatbox

Yuri Lane tears it up with a harmonica and microphone in this YouTube clip. Good shit.

Hip-hop meets bluegrass. I like it.


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lonely ad

I won’t spoil this one by naming it too descriptively. This is a brilliant ad for a company I’ve never heard of. Watch it now.

[via notcot.]


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ipod day

I rarely comment on this blog about new Apple product announcements. There are hundreds of sites that do it better than I could, and even though I geek out about this stuff, I don’t find it all that interesting to write about.
This morning, US pacific time was another Apple “special event” dubbed “The Beat Goes […]


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sexy robot

Whoa. Another brilliant ad. Here’s Philips with a stunningly sexy ad for an electric shaver. Not since Bjork’s ‘All Is Full of Love‘ video (directed by Chris Cunningham) have I been so turned on by a robot.

[via flabber.]


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rock paper scissors

I’ve always though about where and how the game Rock Paper Scissors came from. I wish I thought about it enough to write the passage you are about to read.
I got this in an email today, as a attached image (weird). I’ve re-typed it here for your reading pleasure:

I understand how scissors can beat paper, […]


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A Single Sheet of Paper

‘A Single Sheet of Paper’ is a collection of … origami(?) from artist Peter Callesen
Oh my god.
[via del.icio.us popular]


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karate casting call

There’s a segment of this video that many of you will recall fondly and hysterically. The rest is new to me and nearly as funny. I am so happy people record things and put them on YouTube.

“You want me to show you tough? I’ll show you tough.”
[this one goes out to tourtelot.]


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insensitive logo design

Honestly, I don’t really want to get into it too much. Just let me say that I was recently in the market for Preparation-H, a topical anti-ass-inflamatory. Apparently this cream is not exported, but local varieties do exist. Here’s the one I bought.

Best. Logo. Ever.


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vagina pharmacy

Speaking of funny logos, the pharmacy where I bought the cream from is a big chain in Dubai called Life Pharmacy. This is their logo.

Am I the only one who thinks this looks like the lower-torso area of a pregnant porn star? (Squint your eyes a little.)


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grocery frustration

Grocery shopping requires skills, patience, concentration, and agility unlike any other physical activity known to man. I wouldn’t be surprised if Grocery-X got added to the X-Games in the next few years.
Tonight after work I made an attempt to replenish my empty cupboards and acquire the ingredients for a simple DiClerico classic recipe. I’ll go […]


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google calculator

Everyone should know by now that you can use a Google search to do math calculations. Simply type an equation into the search box such as “4 * 4″, hit “Google Search”, and the resulting page shows the result: 16.

What I didn’t know, but stumbled on tonight was that Google Suggest in the Firefox toolbar […]


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innovative deer rescue

A little deer got himself trapped on some really thin ice. It was too slippery for him to stand and too thin for a rescue worker to safely get out there to save him. Poor little guy nearly froze to death before the news helicopter pilot had a stroke of genius.

glumbert - Helicopter pilot saves […]


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nice work dude, up high

Just when you thought nothing good would ever be in the news again, OJ Simpson comes back and robs a sports memorabilia collector at gunpoint in Las Vegas and the world goes back to normal. Thank you OJ.
My favorite quote so far is, “I’m O.J. Simpson. How am I going to think that I’m going […]


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McCafe

McDonald’s is in the middle of launching a Starbucks-like coffee shop called McCafe around the world. I don’t know if it will be popular or not but I do know that it will be about a year and a half before every other corner in NY is one of these fucking things. Here’s a photo […]


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iPhone in Dubai

That’s right. Will and I are among the very first handful of people in Dubai with working iPhones. After confirming from the only guy we knew with an iPhone that the anySIM unlocker was working with an Etisalat SIM card, we made my sister buy us two US-spec 8GB models and FedEx them immediately. 2 […]


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