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If you know me personally, you probably know that I’m a fan of rocking a t-shirt most of the time, and if you really know me, you’ll know that the iron is not my friend. All that said, about a year or so ago, Lara and I picked up this Crease Release product, made by The Laundress, at Bathroom down in Greenwich Village.

We’ve shown it to a couple of people, and my mom’s even asked us to pick her up some. Of course, it doesn’t stay on shelves like Nintendo Wiis at Christmastime, and that’s because it damn sure gets wrinkles out of your clothes. You literally spray it once or twice on your shirts (I used it on a fave Quiksilver sweater this a.m.), pull them in one direction or another (yes, while you’re wearing it, even), and voila!, no wrinkles. Seriously. So if you’re in NYC, go to Bathroom and see if they have any. Otherwise, keep an eye on it online.

This has been the one and only time you’ll see anything from me about how to get wrinkles out of your clothes. Seriously.

On Saturday, I caught in my Twitter feed some comments from Nicholas Patten about something awesome, coming soon. That something turns out to be “Viva La Hova,” a collaboration (of sorts) put together by Mick Boogie and Terry Urban, mashing together Jay-Z’s lyrics with Coldplay’s music. I can’t be 100% sure, but it looks like it might actually be coming out tomorrow, October 27. Will be on the lookout, for sure.

Remember the “Wassup” ad campaign from ‘99-’02 that Budweiser had been running, featuring (and created by) Charles Stone III? Well, the guys are back, and making a statement about our country, the economy, and even the planet while sharing their support for Barack Obama. Props to Todd Defren for posting about it earlier (proving that Twitter is crazy amazing, yet again). Check the spot below, put together through the 60frames crew and the original cast.

 
The vid is only showing 336 views as of right this exact second, but I expect that’ll change. What do you think about the spot?

[update] As of about 11am Eastern on Saturday morning, the video has about 358K views to date – that’s quite a bit, but I’m definitely surprised that it’s not more. Let’s see what the weekend holds for it.

This morning, you’ll never guess who made it on the CBS Early Show? No, not me (though I did manage to get in one of the shots from the crowd), but Lara! You can check out the segment for Nikon’s “Look Good In Pictures” below, and here’s the original article for your reading pleasure.
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I’ve seen a lot of horrible things being thrown around in political campaigns, but this news is pretty terrible. It seems that some individuals shot a black bear in the head in Cullowee, North Carolina, took it to the campus of Western Carolina University, and draped its body with Barack Obama campaign posters that appeared to be stolen from someone’s property.

Seriously, people – is this where it’s at? We’re at the point where killing an animal (and yes, I’m aware that bear hunting season is apparently open there) and making it “represent,” apparently, a political candidate to make your feelings known is the way to go? Forget people talking about racial issues for a minute here, and let’s talk about reality checks that clearly need to be grasped before we can ever be realistic about progress as people in this country. I just don’t understand people, at all. Or, as Jon put it ever so perfectly, this morning, “WTF is wrong with people?”

That’s what I’d like to know.

Check out this absolutely awesome ad for MasterCard, featuring hockey legend Bobby Orr.

 

Hockey heads will most certainly dig it, like AdFreak did. Check the higher-res version for “Timeline” over at Glossy, along with another spot that hockey heads will dig, “Pep Talk.”

Full credits below the fold.

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Just caught this article that looks at how sled dogs are so amazing, and wanted to point it out as I’ve had some first-hand contact with these very awesome animals. Last winter, I had the opportunity to do some dogsledding [photos here] while out in North Dakota with musher Nancy Yoshida, who is all set to run up to Alaska this week to do the Iditarod next year. You can check out Nancy’s fairly new blog here for more, and catch more about her dogs here.

Most of us have come in contact with a number of different types of dogs in their lives, but I really haven’t seen anything like these dogs. The closest comparison I could make for you right now is that they run pretty much like all the stories we heard about Michael Phelps this past Olympics season – here’s a quote from that Discovery article on MSNBC that sums it up pretty well.

Finally, each approximately 55-pound sled dog can burn up to 12,000 kilocalories per day, which is the equivalent of 24 McDonald’s Big Macs. A human would have to consume and efficiently process the equivalent of 72 Big Macs to fuel a day’s Iditarod run.

It’s not so much that they *can* consume enough calories to get their run on, but that they *do* it, on a regular basis. Upon seeing them get lined up for the sled, it’s pretty clear that they’re ready to go and that they want to run like it’s nobody’s business. Stop for two seconds and dig in the brake, and they sit there and wait for you to hop back on, and will turn it on the moment you give them any inkling it’s time to go.

In any case, it’s kind of an offbeat thing for most people, but if you’re looking to learn a bit more about sled dogs and what makes them tick, this article’s a pretty interesting start.

Just added the nifty tag cloud at the bottom of this page – replacing the original code for the categories (which I don’t use anymore) – with some help from WordPress Guy’s quick tutorial on the subject. Dropping the code in and just inserting a “50″ for the number of tags I wanted to show (rather than all of them), as I thought that was a good number.

Working on some more updates here, and on a few of my other projects (finally), so you’ll have to put up with Tom a little bit more than you might be used to of late…