More brilliance from the border patrol

You read this headline and just think, "What could go wrong?"


Currently the lead story in CNN.com. Full article here.

In other news, I've slept exactly one hour in the last three days. I'm feeling fine at the moment, but I can feel my eyes starting to fuzz up a bit. Also, someone randomly came to visit me at work today and gave me a case of Budweiser. Goodnight.

Why the internet baffles me on a daily basis

Google Maps user reviews are always fun, right?

Yesterday I was poking around Maps to find the zip code to our office (it's on my business cards, duh) when I stumbled across something that only qualifies as bizarre.


Everything looks pretty standard. . . . Hm, wait. There's one review of our agency. Weird. Wonder what it says.


OK . . . One of the best parts is that "1 out of 3 people found this review helpful." And if you click on ole Mike's name you'll see he doesn't have a profile but has also reviewed two other places in town with increasingly bizarre comments.

Online prank or another subversive anti-us campaign? Weird either way.

The Funcooker lives!

Don't know if there are any 30 Rock fans out there, but I had to share this. Sitting on my toilet this morning, I was leafing through Wired as usual when, wonder of wonders, my eyes befell in advertisement in on the second to last page: the iwavecube.

For anyone that watched last week's 30 Rock you know that a main story arc was Jack's launching of a pocket-sized microwave. Well, truth is stranger than fiction because apparent this puppy really does exist. This one-foot cubic wonder promises to blast your vittles with 800 watts of juice. Perfect for kittens too!



Another kudos to the iwavecube for having one of the more absurd taglines(?) I've seen in a while: "Small. Light. Quiet. Personal. Portable. Versatile. Energy Efficient." Catchy. Sure to be the next "Just do it."

Learn more about the next Segway on the icubed website.

If you haven't seen the episode (or the show in general), I suggest you watch below, courtesy of our friends at Hulu.

30 Rock - The Funcooker

Slug Sex

For your Saturday night.

Slug sex

What's the morning after conversation like after that?

(That's to Chris Walker for this one.)

S&M Kitty

I might've posted this here before, but it was big hit last night on the Twitters and buddy list. I present for you amazement and horror, S&M Kitty.

Cat S&M

Ha! What the--, I'm so disturbed, so awesome, eww.

I dumped my pants while watching this

OK, it might be the four beers, utter lack of sleep and sweet episode of LOST talking, but this video is actually one of the best I've seen. (Forget the last one I posted.)

The Quattro toilet


This video is basically the toilet version of Belndtec's Will It Blend? But, the thing about Will It Blend? is that it doesn't relate the products being blended to the messy results of bowel movement.

But, never fear. Because the Quattro by St. Thomas Creations can handle any load you dump on it. I've just been sitting here imagining what each test drop represents. This is truly a priceless video. If intention, brilliant. If lucky, not surrprised.

This is one of the most bizarre things I've ever seen

Just watch.

Poodle Exercise with Humans
I must be a year and a half late on this scene, but this is crazy. Thanks, Thanh!

The little joys of comping Guitar Hero

Like any job as a creative, you spend a lot of time comping ideas for presentations. Luckily for those of us working on Guitar Hero, Flickr is a veritable bottomless magician's hat of picture of people playing the game. Like any social phenomenon, it's well documented on there and on YouTube.

But the best part of comping for Guitar Hero is finding really, really weird shit on Flickr involving Guitar Hero controllers. The images below are highlights from about a two-minute session for "guitar+hero+back".









Yeah. I have no idea what that last one has to do with Guitar Hero or backs, but hey, it was there. My favorite is obviously the dude in the Matrix cape on the roof. You can't make that up.

You should've spent more budget on getting a better concept

I think I was searching for "businessman seated" today on Google Images when this came up.

I suppose it's a more contemporary version of clipart. (Ah, remember lovely, horrible clipart?) Every time I come across images like this (and there seems to be an abundance of them related to businesspeople) I always wonder to myself, Who are these photographers? Who are these people that concept, set up and then shoot these atrocities? Then there's the retoucher, props people, models, all that.

Truthfully, I'm fascinated by this sector of the communications industry. I guess you can find bad art anywhere, just like you can find bad ads, bad writing, bad TV. It still just blows my mind.

Speaking of bad TV/movies . . .

Death scene from Hard Ticket to Hawaii
Tough break.

Lenin is watching. Lenin is always watching.

An email blast from the past

My Entourage notifier just popped up telling me I had a new email. "No subject, probably Nuno," I thought. But when I clicked on it, this is what I saw:


I think someone from the past is trying to send me a message through email. Maybe someone time traveled back to 1904, and is attempting to reach me to tell me that they're trapped.

I'm trying to think of who I know that could possibly have time travel capabilities, and I'm drawing a bit of a blank. If you're the person that's trying to contact me, leave me a message scrawled under the right back table of the Laughing Goat coffee shop (or whatever it is in 1904) in Boulder, Colorado.

Job is fun

This is what yesterday felt like. (Skip ahead to :57 for best representation.)

Yesterday
And this is today:


I just found this picture. There are so many things wrong with it. In fact, I want you to click on it and really take it all in. Thanks.

An Internet Orgy of Awesome

David After Dentist just won't die. And why should it? It's one of the best virals to hit the interwebs since Two Girls. (Man, do you remember when you thought you'd be talking about that video every day for the rest of your life?)

Well, today we have a bit of a meme mashup. When you add this:

David After Dentist

to this:

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Kittens Inspired by Kitten

you get this:


Kittens Inspired by David After Dentist

Yaaaaay internet!

Squirrelkitties

This is the meeting of Kasia's and my worlds.

Cat adopts baby squirrels

Oh yeah, and the video uses Papyrus. I'm not sure what this all signifies, but I should probably be scared.

Advertising and deers

This is what's weird about working for a huge advertising agency that just randomly happens to be in the middle of nowhere (i.e. Boulder, Colorado). I was pulling in to park at home after leaving the office, and there, right next to my house is this deer. A buck. Just chilling, eating my bush. I live in the middle of Boulder. There's just a deer someone here. Hanging out.


It's funny. As I drove to work the other morning I was watching the landscape pass by my window and thought to myself, "I can guarantee that no one else in the entire advertising saw a herd of cows on their morning commute this morning." But yet, I do every morning. There's a stretch of farm land between town and our office on the outskirts of the city limits. It's just weird. And somehow awesome.

It's cool to be removed from the world somewhat, not caught up in all the stuff going on out there. It's like a mountain hideout: Lock yourself up in the basement, scheme and then emerge with an awesome/evil plan. I like it.

I like venison too.

(As an aside, I refrained from any crashing-your-friends-car-head-on-into-a-deer-so-the-deer's-ghost-is-now-following-you-to-finish-of-your-new-car jokes for Ben's sake. I care about you, dude.)

Ben, you suck.

Ben after Dentist

Sorry dude. You're just not as cool as David.


David after Dentist

Real-life Garfield

Well, the Japanese version at least.

Cat eating gyoza

It's like a creature from a Disney movie or something.

Caribous and fish > humans

These pictures pictures come by way of Viral Nerd and are supposed of a caribou that froze standing up in -80°F winds in northern Alaska. Awesome.




But, as I was scanning the page, I found something more awesome:


The stupidity of human beings (myself included) never ceases to amaze me. Also, this is a related oldie but goodie.

You're Doing It Wrong: The Smiling Edition

b4-f-u

What better way to finish off Music Thursday than with this masterpiece by above average boy band b4-4. This video is a holocaust of music, cinematography and sexuality. Anyone involved in this project should have their eyeballs cut out with sheets of cover stock, dipped in muriatic acid and then force fed to them.

There are so many things wrong with this that I don't even know where to begin. I'll just leave it up to you to experience.

b4-4 - Get Down

According to Wikipedia these guys formed around 1999 and had "moderate success in Canada." Makes you wonder what they're up to now. Whatever it is, they deserve it for making this video.