Archive for January, 2007

The Big Rip-off Adventure

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

The Big What Adventure is brought to us, the common masses, by TBWA. Looks like they need our help!
This is an experiment in crowd sourced creativity.
An experiment whose goal is to both seek out and nourish creativity, wherever it may be.
Conventionally, ideas only come from a person with ‘creative’ on their business card. At TBWA\London […]

MINI Me

Monday, January 29th, 2007

Are MINI owners really so vain that we need validation every time we drive down the Mass Pike? Yes, apparently we are.
MINI is trying something… different… with their new billboard ads - personalization. Yup, your name in 24″ high, low-resolution letters. By capitalizing on the RFID chips already present in MINI key […]

No Problem.

Monday, January 29th, 2007

Like the food pyramid, but for imaginary crap

Friday, January 26th, 2007

Bradley Horowitz at Yahoo runs a blog called Elatable, and I think his sketch for how social media communities scale is clear, possibly oversimplfied, but accurate. Basically in Flickr, SecondLife etc, you have power users who are nerd enough to really create and develop influential new stuff. The second tier remixes and popularizes it, and […]

They do?

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

Now here’s a site I’d like to see an American version of. In their words,
TheyWorkForYou.com is a non-partisan website run by a charity which aims to make it easy for people to keep tabs on their elected and unelected representatives in Parliament, and other assemblies.
Bringing transparency and accountability to elected and appointed government officials. Nice.

We’re wicked smart.

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhh89RVs3ps

HA-ha

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

“HA-ha” (Nelson voice) “You’re using Vista.”

A civil, well-designed solution

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

For sale now, $5 for a pack of 25.

Super Bowl Proposal By Lovesick Man

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

Check this out.
This guy is trying to buy a 2.5 million dollar Ad during the Super Bowl to propose to his girlfriend! He has a website promoting his idea. Apparently he has jewelers offering to sponsor and even BUY THE RING FOR HIM!!! Check out the article here.
Another interesting thing is how this […]

We all go chasing waterfalls

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2LUz2WVcek

Can’t get much more on brand than this waterfall system used by Jeep at recent autoshows. But it is scary to think that a company who is smart enough to engineer that, has this for a website.
Via Adfreak