Hasta La Creative!

To view more of the campaign, visit http://www.thingsarefine.org

Advertising Agency: Borders Perrin Norrander, Portland, USA

To view more of the campaign, visit http://www.thingsarefine.org

Advertising Agency: Borders Perrin Norrander, Portland, USA

To view more of the campaign, visit http://www.thingsarefine.org

Advertising Agency: Borders Perrin Norrander, Portland, USA

To view more of the campaign, visit http://www.thingsarefine.org

Advertising Agency: Borders Perrin Norrander, Portland, USA

For those readers who work in the advertising industry, it’s highly unlikely you’ve ever partaken of illegal narcotics. Luckily, the Oslo Department of Health has created this handy Web tool to simulate using marijuana, cocaine and heroin. (You’ll probably need to enable popups on your browser.) I, for one, was shocked to discover that using cocaine is like being blacked out at a Ministry concert. And the virtual pot experience was sadly lacking in delicious burritos. Hat tip to Osocio.

—Posted by David Griner

The U.S. Army has its bandoliers in a twist over Twitter, issuing a report citing the “potential for terrorist use of Twitter.” I guess the military has been getting pretty high-tech and youth-savvy of late, what with its mall-based (“We’re not recruiting!”) video-arcade push. The Army’s apparently concerned that Twitter is “already used by some members to post and support extremist ideologies and perspectives,” so terrorists could possibly use it “as an operational tool.” (“What are U doing right now?” “Overthrowing the gov’t. U?”) The sheer number of outages would make Twitter somewhat impractical for command and control purposes, but there is one account I’d urge the Pentagon to follow: twitter.com/bmorrissey. He’s already got more than 2,700 rabid “followers,” and he’s always “training” for something. And this guy, twitter.com/nudd, wasn’t even born in this country! As for twitter.com/griner, well, he’s from Alabama—nuff said there. Ah well, the army’s probably just pissed that twitter.com/usmarines got there first.

—Posted by David Gianatasio

LONDON – Charlie Brooker’s horror thriller ‘Dead Set’ about a nation of zombies attacking the Big Brother house pulled in 1.2m on E4, while a new series of ‘Spooks’ kicked off on BBC One with 5.5m.

LONDON – Creative agency Tayburn has produced the annual report for children’s charity, The Sick Kids Friends Foundation, in the form of a colourful children’s book instead of more typical statutory form.

Help the Aged has appointed TDA to develop an online campaign for its ‘Cows ‘n’ things’ ethical gift website, following a pitch against one other undisclosed agency.

LONDON – ITV is expected to relaunch its online video-on-demand service as ITV Player as it increases its web activity.