…Is it the Foam Beard that Makes the Big Boys Strip and Shave?

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Continuing that creepy Japanese game show-inspired shaving fetish campaign thing for Nivea, DraftFCB and Rubber Republic assault us with Foam Beard Lady.

Mixbook Launches Upgraded Online Photo Editor

For people who love to go online, a lot of things are the reason behind it. And among the, the ability to edit photos online is a growing fad and thanks to the efforts of Mixbook, they just upgraded that option for people who are simply crazy about producing the best photos online today.

Mixbook today announced the release of a powerful new online scrapbook editor. Mixbook’s new editor allows users to fully personalize their photo book with a wide array of stickers, backgrounds, and professionally-designed themes.

Mixbook’s Online Photo Book Software Offers:

  • One-Click Professional Templates – Create a book quickly with pre-built professional templates for baby photo books, wedding photo books, travel books and more.
  • Powerful Scrapbook Editor – Move, crop, rotate, pan and zoom on photos; add stickers and backgrounds; and create custom layouts.
  • Integration with Leading Photo Sites – Add photos from Facebook, Picasa Web Albums, Flickr, Photobucket or Smugmug.
  • Simple Online Collaboration – Invite friends and family to create pages, add photos and even create their own fully-personalized copies to order when the book is done.

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SBUX Value Meals, Doe-Eye Prejudice, Recovery for Dummies

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– The Obama Administration’s recovery.gov logo kinda reminds us of…

Seriously, Is There Anything a Japanese Fetish Game Show CAN’T Sell?

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There’s something about Japanese pop culture that compels us to watch and not look away.

An American Flag Composed of Fuel and Voices

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This is kinda interesting. For client CONSOL Energy, Brunner/Pittsburgh put together a microsite with a “coal flag.”

Here’s The One Time ‘Go to Hell’ Can Be Used to Incite Purchasing Behavior.

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Electronic Arts needed help promoting Dante’s Inferno, a game we suspect might be less gorgeous than this ad.

If They’re Gonna Be Plotting Your Demise, Better to Eat Them While Sober

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Belin Crazy Rings/Tubes/Starfish are essentially drinking snacks. We’d call them beer nuts but the branding material reads “l’apero cingle” — aperitif snacks.

Triscuit + Kraft = No Snackrifice Necessary

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We have it on good authority that Nabisco’s started circulating a new slogan, “Why Snackrifice?”, to promote Triscuits — and, to a lesser degree, Kraft cheese (its perfect mate).

Parents Recall How Their Parents Talked — or Didn’t Talk — Drugs

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The Partnership for a Drug-Free America enlisted Razorfish to help it talk to parents about talking to their kids about drugs, I guess because the Patsy angle didn’t go over so well.

Ashton Tweets, S/Urge, Libel Revisited and the ow.ly-Twitter Hustle

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– zOMG: grainy shots of Ashton and Demi!

Sony. Bravia. Zoetrope. (Don’t Act Like You Didn’t Just Reflexively Twitch Your Cursor.)

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If you’ve seen one Sony Bravia ad, you’ve got the blueprint for all of them: seize upon the easiest way to illustrate a product’s raison d’etre, then magnify, until the crowd whose attention you so wistfully coveted has been submerged by your idea.

World Almanac Explains Why David Cook’s on the Cover

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And it’s exactly as boring as the title of the post suggests.

Little Rings Right About Boost Mobile’s UNwrong’D

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Remember Boost Mobile, the Nextel spin-off that spent the last three years molesting street culture under the tagline “Where You At?”

The Carnival of Ideas: Thought Candy for Creative Conspiracy Theorists

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YouTube’s given rise to more than its fare share of pro-bono talking heads, so it’s not often we watch any one “thought leader” video in full.

This Video Has Been Viewed Every 4 Seconds Since It Went Live.

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It’s called “Ken Block Gymkhana Practice.”

Cisco Explains Mobile Internet to Common Man

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Okay. See the hands at left grasping greedily for the giant diamond?

Old Spice Cures Tony Stewart’s Escalator Phobia

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In this cockle-warming story about an asthmatic geek who now wears onesies and gets his pick of trophies (both metal and collagen-enhanced), Tony Stewart reinforces the power of Swagger.

Frito Lay: The Snackie of Choice for Tech Romantics

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Feed Company sent us some online video magics for Frito-Lay, the good folks that bring you both Sun Chips and beef jerky. (They also own Cracker Jack. Now that’s just impressive.)

Learn Power Games, Acronyms and Crucial Euphemisms at Camp Network!

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Rebel Virals did something we imagined was impossible: it created a B2B online video for Microsoft that is actually funny — not because it’s sad, but because it’s funny.

Cosmote Promotes a Schizophrenic Everyday (as YOU See It!)

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Greek portal Cosmote is promoting its social merits with “Our world is you” — shorthand for on our portal, you can do whatever you want.