02 March 2010
Good artists copy
This new pedigree ad by TBWA Toronto has been making the rounds
It's a neat idea and dogs look silly in slo-mo.
But I remembered seeing this 4 years ago:
And this is why I'll never work for an ad agency again. The song is way better in the old version too, it's called "Birds" by Vitalic
It's a neat idea and dogs look silly in slo-mo.
But I remembered seeing this 4 years ago:
And this is why I'll never work for an ad agency again. The song is way better in the old version too, it's called "Birds" by Vitalic
Labels: advertising, fail
30 November 2009
Crunchpad evaporates in a cloud of smug.
The CrunchPad disappears in a puff of vapor: "
Engadget has the scoop on the death of the CrunchPad, designed by self important blogger to show the hardware industry what they are doing wrong and deliver an affordable, usable tablet computer.
I guess that whole hardware thing is a little trickier than assembling parts from Newegg? People who have never had to deliver an actual physical object to the marketplace always seem to think it's like a software project + 20%.
Engadget has the scoop on the death of the CrunchPad, designed by self important blogger to show the hardware industry what they are doing wrong and deliver an affordable, usable tablet computer.
I guess that whole hardware thing is a little trickier than assembling parts from Newegg? People who have never had to deliver an actual physical object to the marketplace always seem to think it's like a software project + 20%.
27 April 2009
"Fiscal responsibility" in action
So yeah there's that whole swine flu thing going on now.
Rove's argument was picked up by House and Senate Republicans, who made it an essential message in their attacks on the legislation. Even as Rove and his compatriots argued that a stimulus bill should include initiatives designed to shore-up and maintain any recovery, they consistently, and loudly, objected to spending money to address the potentially devastating economic impact of a major public health emergency.
The attack on pandemic preparation became so central to the GOP strategies that AP reported in February: "Republicans, meanwhile, plan to push for broader and deeper tax cuts, to trim major spending provisions that support Democrats' longer-term policy goals, and to try to knock out what they consider questionable spending items, such as $870 million to combat the flu and $400 million to slow the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases."
Famously, Maine Senator Collins, the supposedly moderate Republican who demanded cuts in health care spending in exchange for her support of a watered-down version of the stimulus, fumed about the pandemic funding: "Does it belong in this bill? Should we have $870 million in this bill No, we should not."
Even now, Collins continues to use her official website to highlight the fact that she led the fight to strip the pandemic preparedness money out of the Senate's version of the stimulus measure.
15 April 2009
All I'm going to post about the "Tea Parties"
Two things:
- Has nobody behind these protests ever heard of the alternate definition of "teabagging"?
- This:
"She said she retired on disability from M&T Bank three years ago after undergoing knee replacement and back surgeries. She lives on her Social Security and disability benefits. Last year, she petitioned the bankruptcy court for protection from creditors.
She said she did not have to pay federal income taxes last year because her income was too low.
"I don't want to see this country turn into a welfare, nanny state, where we stand in line for groceries, and we're in welfare lines, and in socialized medicine lines," Wilder said.
