Link Lust: Ad Dictionary, fired, beat boxing beagles and beggin’

There’s a wikibased Ad Dictionary on the web now, where you can add words like photox and Copysloth. more words that our ad dictionary gathered during the years (contributions in that are mine and Claymore’s).

Ad agencies are like “American Idol” now – where one major agency in the states recently collected staffers into two different rooms. 60-odd people in one room were told that they were fired, the other room was “safe” (for now..). Oh, that’s nice.

Bob Garfield gets really angry at bloggers in his… wait for it… blog.

Fine fine, I’ll post a link to the dumb beatboxing dog that everyone but me adores. Why do I hate that suave dog so much? Because that’s my cellphone provider, and the deal they offer with this dog is so much sweeter than the deal I got and am stuck with for another 24 months. My bills are so salty, I think I’m paying for this dog single handedly. So enjoy it kids, I bought you a beat boxing beagle.

These links brought to you by “Beggin’ – Frankie Vallie – Pilowski edit” just ‘cuz I’ve fancied him ever since I saw Grease at the age of five. Five times. With five different dates. Yes, start young girls. Never mind that two of the dates were my brother and father, there were slim pickings of cute boys in my kindergarden. Btw, Hi Freddy! I won’t go steady with you now stop calling..

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Bling Bling Boring (Part III) – Top 34 Bizarre Blinged Things (SUPER GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) As the final part in our Bling Bling Boring series, we bring you a list of the most random things adorned with crystals, gems and diamonds.

The list has such a diverse range of items, it was impossible to create individual categories. There’s everything from jewel encrusted bugs to toilet paper di…

Snorting Vodka Shots – Amy Winehouse and Prince Harry Create Personal ‘Gas Chambers’

(TrendHunter.com) Here’s one for the books! Not one I would indulge in. It’s called the “gas chamber” which is awful enough but you actually SNORT your vodka shot through a straw. Why? It gets into your blood stream quicker which also makes it very dangerous. And now it will make it’s way out of the underground and b…

Fire Tables – Bring Out Your Inner Caveman (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) We didn’t start the fire, it was in the table, since Cain and Able. Some very cool firepits for inside your abode. Planika Fires use biofuel called Fanola so the fire doesn’t have any smoke or smell. Only water vapor and CO2 equivalent to what humans exhale. Whew. What great fun this would be – and …

Ugly Mug Coffee: Alarm clock

Ugly Mug Coffee: Alarm clock

Advertising Agency: Young & Laramore, Indianapolis, USA
Creative Director: Charlie Hopper
Art Director: Trevor Williams
Copywriter: Bryan Judkins
Designer: Yee-Haw Industries
Photographers: Harold Lee Miller, Gary Sparks
Published: January 2008

Ugly Mug Coffee: Office coffee

Ugly Mug Coffee: Office coffee

Advertising Agency: Young & Laramore, Indianapolis, USA
Creative Director: Charlie Hopper
Art Director: Trevor Williams
Copywriter: Bryan Judkins
Designer: Yee-Haw Industries
Photographers: Harold Lee Miller, Gary Sparks
Published: January 2008

Ugly Mug Coffee: Every morning

Ugly Mug Coffee: Every morning

Advertising Agency: Young & Laramore, Indianapolis, USA
Creative Director: Charlie Hopper
Art Director: Trevor Williams
Copywriter: Bryan Judkins
Designer: Yee-Haw Industries
Photographers: Harold Lee Miller, Gary Sparks
Published: January 2008

Ugly Mug Coffee: Morning people

Ugly Mug Coffee: Morning people

Advertising Agency: Young & Laramore, Indianapolis, USA
Creative Director: Charlie Hopper
Art Director: Trevor Williams
Copywriter: Bryan Judkins
Designer: Yee-Haw Industries
Photographers: Harold Lee Miller, Gary Sparks
Published: January 2008

Ugly Mug Coffee: This coffee

Ugly Mug Coffee: This coffee

Advertising Agency: Young & Laramore, Indianapolis, USA
Creative Director: Charlie Hopper
Art Director: Trevor Williams
Copywriter: Bryan Judkins
Designer: Yee-Haw Industries
Photographers: Harold Lee Miller, Gary Sparks
Published: January 2008

Ugly Mug Coffee:: Sun

Ugly Mug Coffee:: Sun

Advertising Agency: Young & Laramore, Indianapolis, USA
Creative Director: Charlie Hopper
Art Director: Trevor Williams
Copywriter: Bryan Judkins
Designer: Yee-Haw Industries
Photographers: Harold Lee Miller, Gary Sparks
Published: January 2008

Ugly Mug Coffee: Snooze button

Ugly Mug Coffee: Snooze button

Advertising Agency: Young & Laramore, Indianapolis, USA
Creative Director: Charlie Hopper
Art Director: Trevor Williams
Copywriter: Bryan Judkins
Designer: Yee-Haw Industries
Photographers: Harold Lee Miller, Gary Sparks
Published: January 2008

Basketball Team Duesseldorf Magics: Trashbasket

Basketball Team Duesseldorf Magics: Trashbasket

Be part of the Magics.

Advertising Agency: MO&O Werbeagentur, Düsseldorf, Germany
Creative Director: Manfred Ohling
Art Director: Alexander Gerlings
Published: September 2007

Fashion Targets Breast Cancer – Natalie Imbruglia with Sass & Bride (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) In an increasing trend of fashion and celebrities helping the fight against AIDS and cancer, Sass & Bide has teamed up with Aussie singer Natalie Imbruglia to help Fashion Targets Breast Cancer- a charity close to Sass & Bide designer Heidi Middleton’s heart.

Middleton was diagnosed with breast ca…

German Patriotism Campaign – Du Bist Deutschland Ads (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Jung von Matt, one of Germany’s top ad agencies, has released a great campaign to help evoke positive feelings of patriotism in the country’s citizens.

The Du bist Deutschland (you are Germany) campaign is a series of 18 photographs of famous Germans who have had historical impact and are known gl…

German Patriotism Campaign – Du Bist Deutschland Ads

Jung von Matt, one of Germany’s top ad agencies, has released a great campaign to help evoke positive feelings of patriotism in the country’s citizens.

The Du bist Deutschland (you are Germany) campaign is a series of 18 photographs of famous Germans who have had historical impact and are known gl…

Letter Grows Into Flowers – Honda’s Green Marketing

(TrendHunter.com) Honda, in an attempt to show that it can go green, sent customers of its lawn and garden equipment, a letter that literally grows. Printed on a special paper that contains seeds, the text invites the readers to plant the letter(once they have read it I suppose), to help neutralize the carbon in the …

Letter Grows Into Flowers – Honda’s Green Marketing

Honda, in an attempt to show that it can go green, sent customers of its lawn and garden equipment, a letter that literally grows. Printed on a special paper that contains seeds, the text invites the readers to plant the letter(once they have read it I suppose), to help neutralize the carbon in the …

Tactile Wand is the New Blind Stick – The Cand Gets Wiimoted (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Looking like a cousin of Nintendo’s Wiimote, the Tactile Wand is actually a ’smart’ wand designed to replace the traditional long stick used by the visually impaired. Created by Jin Woo Han, the Wand utilizes a sensor on the front to detect nearby objects and provides feedback about how far away…

World’s 1st iPhone & iTouch Wireless GPS – G-FI

(TrendHunter.com) PosiMotion is claiming the first wireless GPS accessory for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch title. The GPS add-on is actually compatible with any Wi-Fi device, but will be shipping with exclsive software that enables proper iPhone/iPod touch integration. The G-FI is reported to be in the final stages …

Make Games with MS Excel

I wrote about games build in and for MS Excel earlier, and now Gamasutra runs a very detailed feature showing some of the hidden powers of the office application:

“It’s time to learn a new 3D game engine name: Microsoft Excel.

It is understood that Excel is an all-round office tool, but probably it is unknown that it has a bunch of features that makes Excel a high-class 3D graphics engine.

In this article I will demonstrate Excel’s arithmetical facilities, the embedded rendering subsystems (there are two of them!) and the revolutionary approach which might just cause a paradigm shift. I hope you will discover that Excel effectively and efficiently incorporates practicality, tons of features, the multi-platform portability and the high performance with the unique and futuristic 3D engine features.”

Check out Excel Music Synthesizer build on MS Excel 2007.

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