[Via Flowing Data]
Toy Story + The Wire
[Via Kottke]
Vuvuzela Concerto in B Flat
An amusing MMS exchange
My parents have really enjoyed their iPhones since they picked them up last year. In fact, they’ve even taken to sending both SMS and MMS messages to both my sister and I. It often results in some amusing exchanges.
Recently, my sister made a blueberry pie and sent an image of the results to both our Mom and myself.
After receiving this picture, my Mom quickly sent back the following as a reply.
BP parody billboards
A hilarious take on some of the tweets from the fake BPGlobalPR Twitter account.
Also, for your enjoyment, there is a Firefox plugin that will modify the words “BP” in your browser.
Liquid mountaineering – My new favorite sport
This video is hilarious. I’m sure it’s some viral marketing campaign, but I love it. The whole premise behind it is brilliant.
Nike’s 2010 World Cup commercial
The World Cup is almost upon us and Nike released a brilliant soccer commercial that debuted during yesterday’s UEFA Champions League Final. It’s called “Write the Future”, and features various players from around the world, writing their own destiny depending on what happens in the World Cup. It’s an epic and often hilarious commercial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idLG6jh23yE
My personal favorite Nike soccer commercial is from Euro 2008, called “Take it to the Next Level”, which shows a soccer player’s career evolve in first person view. (See previously)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwlpTgbQTE
Lastly, this soccer commercial from Euro 2004, pokes fun at the Italian national team’s propensity for “diving“. Via Wikipedia:
Diving in the context of association football is an attempt by a player to gain an unfair advantage by diving to the ground and possibly feigning an injury, to appear as if a foul has been committed. Dives are often used to exaggerate the amount of contact present in a challenge.
This often happens…
Cycling trends
Hah! Andrew Martin jokes about today’s “silly bikes.”
However, the latest trend is for the minimalist courier bike, which supplements the disadvantages of the road bike (no mudguards, bags, lights) with the bonus disadvantage of having only one brake and no gears at all. It’s more difficult to ride one of these up a moderate incline than it is a mountain bike, yet that’s the point: they show the rider is super-fit, which is why they particularly appeal to men worried about turning 30, who are not super-fit but want female passers-by to think they are.
I get the strangest email.
There is a group of people who have me mixed up for someone else and keep sending me email. I’ve replied and emailed them on numerous occasions that I am the incorrect person, yet I still receive weird and even awkward emails.
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Err… what? Here’s another gem. Names blocked out.
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Yikes! I feel bad for the poor little dude, whoever he is. That said: Reply to all -> “Hi, I think you have the wrong person.”
A few weeks later, another email.
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Ahhh!