If you’re wondering why I might not be so prolific in the next few days, it’s because I’m on vacation in Hawaii. You’ll see a slew of photos of mine over at Flickr Flickr if you’re interested, and I’ll attempt to keep it real here as much as possible.
Aloha!
I’m not the only one who sees the resemblance – maybe only to the end of the second spot, but still – between this AT&T “Buddy” ad:
And the ever-famous, way mashed-up Bud ad from years ago, am I?
MetaFilter is one of my favorite Websites, and has been for as long as I’ve visited it and been a member. The posts completely vary in quality, but that’s what happens when you have a site like that – a “community weblog,” as it were. Tonight, I caught this post about Charley, a cat with cerebellar hypoplasia. It’s quite moving, whether or not you dig cats, I think. I’m sure my pal Lauren will get a kick out of it. The vid does a great job of showing that cats facing cerebellar hypoplasia are perfectly fine as pets, and don’t appear to need any special care (aside from the bumps and bruises they might cause themselves), obviously pushing for adoption of these animals and promoting the fact that they need not be destroyed when this is their only challenge. I urge you to take a look and pass it along.
You might have thought that Excel and other software wasn’t able to be used for anything that wasn’t amusing, but you’d be wrong.
A few weeks ago, David had pointed me to this item on jamphat, “rap represented in mathematical charts and graphs,” and I couldn’t stop laughing. That, combined with the Rick Astley chart, made it all come together for me.
Then, this morning, Chris gave me the heads up on the Song Chart Flickr pool (there are multiple, it would seem), that he’d caught here.
After all of that, I knew I had to contribute, so I threw together this chart of M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes” for your viewing enjoyment.
/stupidity
While we’re all pretty much fascinated (okay, concerned, slightly?) by Bear Stearns being bought for $2 today, as opposed to the few *billion* it was worth last week, it’s important that we see the lighter side of the situation.
Check out this comic from Stock Mania! – you know you want to.
[Thanks, Alex!]
I had been meaning to post about this and it was sitting in my inbox for some time now, so now’s as good a time as any. A little over a week ago, Brittney Gilbert posted an item on KPIX / CBS 5’s Eye on Blogs about a blog that’s doing something positive after the disaster that was the Michael Vick dogfighting situation. She points to VicksDogsBlog, which features photos and “commentary” from the dogs who survived, and shows what they’re doing now.
It’s one of the better things I’ve seen a blog used for, and is a great example in that it incorporates multimedia, focuses on moving forward, and is actually enjoyable to keep tabs on.
Good job, Brittney, posting that from your tipster, and I’ll be subscribing and reading this blog going forward.
I’ve gotta say, I’m still really digging this NASCAR / Sprint Cup spot that Sprint has been running on television, featuring the “monsters” versions of the Sprint Cup rides, using the flashy light that the phone carrier has been utilizing in its ads of late.
Every time I watch it, I catch something new that happens or is peculiar about the lights, etc.
Jeremy just hit me with an IM pointing me to Scott Beale’s post about Pontiac’s G8 advertisement featuring the world of Midway’s “Spy Hunter” video game. I’ve gotta say, the demographic being reached and the target market for the product are actually spot on with this, as folks who dug the game are probably ones who would dig this car. Head over to Scott’s post and check it out.
For those of you who don’t follow NASCAR, you’re probably not too aware of the career of Dale Jarrett. For those of you who’ve ever turned a television on and watched a few commercials, you’ve probably seen the UPS ads featuring the driver looking to “race the truck.”
Well, this is going to be Dale’s last season with the team, and as a full-time driver in the Sprint Cup series. To celebrate the 7 years he’s spent with UPS, the company has set up a page where you can not only watch the TV spot (it’s pretty good), but that you can check out photos, see footage of “building” the race truck featured in the spots, and sign a farewell card that will be presented to Dale on May 17, the date of his final race (at least as a full-timer).
Thought it was a pretty awesome getup by UPS there … now if we could only get them to make the spot embeddable!
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