December 2008
148 posts
GM jets: No tracking for you! →
Filed under: Etc., GM
GM has seven planes (four of them are for sale), and one of them was recently and infamously used for a brief sojourn to Washington for head honcho Rick…
Timbuk2’s Custom-Built Pro-Planet Bags →
Timbuk2 built its base among the bike messenger set, where their bags are revered for their tough-as-nails construction, cycle-friendly ergonomics, and and on-the-go ease of use. We’re…
WTF Fail →
Submitted by Katherine W
ECO ART ACTIVISM: Swimming Above a Submerged City →
Talk about subliminal advertising. HSBC Bank hired advertising agency Oglivy & Mather in Mumbai to create a campaign for their website, www.globalwarmingsolutions.co.in, designed to…
November 2008
89 posts
The Pope Goes Green →
Via AFP: The Vatican began its conversion to renewable energy system this week with the inauguration of an array of solar panels on a key building.
The 2,400 panels on the 5,000 square…
Shocked there is no @gapingvoid iPhone app
About to eat a couple veggie corndogs…yes I know
You Know Times Are Tough When... [Carpocalypse... →
…you spot a Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupe in front of you in the McDonald’s drive-through. Also, the driver’s ordering from the value meal menu. Oh, and it’s not Britney Spears behind the…
Messing with twit ok the iPhone.
Why does Barry Manilow keep rickrolling on the Today Show? Why?!?!?!?!
New Tech: Embed Ads in Existing Videos [2] →
Woah, groundbreaking. A couple of smartypants (artificial intelligence researchers) at Stanford have developed software that allows you to insert ads onto walls inside existing videos to make it…
MapQuest: “We’ve Come Out Of Hibernation” →
I recently had the opportunity to interview two senior level executives from Mapquest to find out what the longtime provider of online mapping services is up to. Despite perceptions, MapQuest is…
Google Gains U.S. Search Market Share In October,... →
ComScore released its October search-engine market share figures for the U.S. last night. Overall search volume grew 20.1 percent year-over-year to 12.6 billion queries, a decline in growth from…
I Feel London →
You don’t know where to go, but you know what you feel. As long as that feeling is naughty, hungover, energetic, romantic, sophisticated, chilled, girly, manly or broke then we know how to…
Oh My God! Search is Changing Forever! SEO is... →
Posted by randfish
With every tweak and change that comes to Google, it seems there’s a new round of questions and blog posts and hand-wringing that follows the same old formula:
With the…
Welsh Fail →
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Chevy Tahoe Messes With Texas Mini Cooper, Pays... →
Some SUV buyers tend to feel that they’re captaining the dreadnoughts of the road, impervious to all harm and thus free to futz with cupholders and electronic gadgetry rather than…
Welsh Fail →
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Ad Location Fail →
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Google SearchWiki Is Back. Here’s How To Kill It... →
Cheers were heard across the Internet earlier today when Google’s new SearchWiki search interface inexplicably vanished. Perhaps, just maybe, it was gone for good. Or at least when it…
What to do about Detroit →
I was in Detroit last week… I have family there. I also drive a car. And I would rather that the world doesn’t melt and the economy thrive. So I’m uniquely qualified to weigh in on the automobile…
Ashlee Simpson Gives Child Lame Hipster Name,... →
For some reason, Jessica Simpson’s less attractive and less talented sister Ashlee is famous, and being famous apparently automatically brings mental disability. Ashlee and husband Pete…
General Motors getting rid of two corporate jets →
Filed under: Government/Legal, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, GM
Much ado was made about the Big 3 CEOs choice of travel to Washington D.C. this week. Each one flew to our nation’s…
I am a ninja →
I am a ninja throw a knife The enemy came
Engrish Photo by Jody H
What to do about Detroit →
I was in Detroit last week… I have family there. I also drive a car. And I would rather that the world doesn’t melt and the economy thrive. So I’m uniquely qualified to weigh in on the automobile…
Rural Canadian Wins Koenigsegg CCX, Has No Road To... →
Louie Edgi, a cancer patient currently residing in the horribly frigid area of Norman Wells, Canada, has won the Cash and Cars Lottery, which supports the Alberta Cancer Foundation and the…
Random thought - is it really eco-tourism if you fly 2,000 miles on a 777 to get to the resort?
#16284 - Sakurako Shimizu creates custom jewelry... →
Sakurako Shimizu creates custom jewelry based on audio waveform. These particular wedding bands were each based on a recording of the bride and groom saying “I do”. (Want more? See …
#16274 - Turn your iPhone into a numeric keypad... →
Turn your iPhone into a numeric keypad for your notebook - NumberKey, by Balmuda Design. (Want more? See NOTCOT.org and NOTCOT.com)
Yahoo Brings “Glue Pages” To The US →
A big hit in India, Yahoo has decided to launch “Glue Pages” in the US market. Barry wrote about Glue when it first appeared in India. Glue Pages are essentially structured search results, pulling…
Normally, It's a Good Thing to Get Featured on... →
Posted by randfish
Well, not this time.
New York-based advertising firm MediaWhiz, never one to worry about gray areas when it comes to advertising, has launched a new product today called…
InLinks.com - TLA Launches In Links, an Inline... →
Just in time for the holidays, Media Whiz’s Text Link Ads launched a new links product named InLinks, which puts text links inside the content of sites powered by Wordpress, MovableType, and Drupal….
Logistics Fail →
Submitted by Skorpen
Best name ever - Porsche Doppelkupplungsgetriebe - http://tinyurl.com/5qwwue
The King Dropping His Hard-Earned Cash For You [1] →
Burger King and their agency, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, are running a hot (not original, but hot), under-the-radar promotion in select cities right now, including Orlando and Chicago. The…
Longing for Something Real →
This morning on the train to Milwaukee, I read an article on Slate about Jeff Jarvis. Like the author of the piece, Ron Rosenbaum, I used to read Jarvis on a frequent basis while I was…
Snoop at Martha's Hizo →
Like two peas in a pod. (Via oneplusinfinity)
Thanks for making F1 cars look lame Bernie! http://tinyurl.com/69lw9u
Note to self: When begging the government for money, don’t take the private jet. http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/19/autos.ceo.jets/index.html
Wait'll they get a load of... the 2009 F1 cars →
Filed under: Motorsports
What you see above is a shot of BMW’s Formula 1 racer built to 2009 specs. Slicks are back for mechanical grip, but to reduce downforce and speeds — and…
being a comment troll is not a social media strategy…
The New Citysearch Launches in Beta, Goes... →
Citysearch is finally coming around to replacing its creaking site design with something a little more contemporary. Today, it is launching in a major rethink of its entire site in beta that…
Google’s “Googlers” & P&G’s “Proctoids”... →
A New Odd Couple: Google, P&G Swap Workers to Spur Innovation from the Wall Street Journal reports that Google and Procter & Gamble are engaging in employee swapping. Google is known to have a very…
Thanks Twilio, No One Is Safe From The RickRoll... →
If you don’t know what being RickRolled is, go look it up because you don’t want to be the last person to figure it out. YouTube even RickRolled its own users as an April Fools joke.
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Google's New Search-Based Keyword Tool Tells You... →
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: Google’s New Search-Based Keyword Tool Tells You What Keywords You’re Missing — Google released a new keyword tool tonight, named the…
BMW finally acknowledges turbo lag, will update... →
Filed under: Maintenance, BMW
Countless BMW owners have been frustrated for some time with software-induced turbo lag on their N54 3.0-liter twin-turbo inline-6 engines. While…
Design Student Creates Carbon Fiber Car Seat For... →
This carbon fiber child’s safety car seat, created by Rory Craig of the Art Center College of Design, is not an official Sparco product but rather a clever prototype. Though we’re a bit…
Logistics Fail →
Submitted by Skorpen
Ah Ha! That's Why I Love Marketing →
Leave it to Seth Godin to remind me why I got into the marketing biz…