September 2006 Archives

So I got the Greenpeace spoof site link on Viralmonitor this morning. Lovely idea, it'll be interesting to see if, and how fast Apple comes down hard on it. Just in case, I've grabbed their home page. If you click on the smaller image below you'll get a full-size screengrab.

The site is surprisingly deep, and this being the era of value co-creation, Greenpeace is collaborating with its supporters. The user-generated section allows the visitor to design t-shirts, write an alternative Steve speech and design the obligatory television commercial using existing greenpeace footage.

Very nice work, am off to put words in Steve's mouth...

Tags: greenmyapple, apple, greenpeace

Well I meant to say I had a bit of a medical thing happen last Sunday and I've been spending a lot of time in bed with my brain turned off. Normal service should resume next Monday.

Best,
Dug

Just got this in the mail--sounds good in a kind of burning-man kind of way...

Encore enfant, je devinais que ce sourire très singulier représentait pour chaque femme une étrange petite victoire. Oui, une éphémère revanche sur les espoirs déçus, sur la grossièreté des hommes, sur la rareté des choses belles et vraies de ce monde. Si j'avais su le dire, à l'époque, j'aurais appelé cette façon de sourire féminité... Mais la langue était alors trop concrète. Je me contentais d'examiner, dans nos albums de photos, les visages féminins et de retrouver ce reflet de beauté sur certains d'entre eux.

Car ces femmes savaient que pour être belles, il fallait, quelques secondes avant que le flash ne les aveugle, prononcer ces mystérieuses syllabes françaises dont peu connaissaient le sens: pe-tite-pomme... Comme par enchantement, la bouche, au lieu de s'étirer dans une béatitude enjouée ou de se crisper dans un rictus anxieux, formait ce gracieux arrondi. Le visage tout entier en demeurait transfiguré. Les sourcils s'arquaient légèrement, l'ovale des joues s'allongeait. On disait petite pomme, et l'ombre d'une douceur lointaine et rêveuse voilait le regard, affinait les traits, laissait planer sur le cliché la lumière tamisée des jours anciens.

(The passage is quoted from Andreï Makine's "Le Testament Français" which I will now have to struggle through)

Arrrgggg my specs broke. Bloody things cost a fortune and they're less than a year old. My optician lined me up with these reading glasses undt jedst meiner name ist Dieter:-(

I should start paying Iain Tait for the amount he totally cracks me up:-)

I just noticed this piece posted last Friday:

Anyone know where I can get the ‘urban youth cliche clipart vol 7 cd’? I’m searching for a bmx-ing blackberry user and a skater grinding a PSP.

Subject: Google Agency Party - Your Invitation

Dear [Fname]

We would love you to join us for a Party on the night of Thursday September 28th. We sent you an invitation this afternoon, but due to some technical difficulties on our side, the invitations were not sent in the correct format.

We will be resending your invitation shortly. Please look out for it and we do hope you will be able to join us.

All the best,
Valentina

Of course it being an advertising thing I'm sure most recipients replied as "fname".

I'm sure you've seen this but here's a link anyway to a Flickr photoset of Banksy's Paris Hilton CD insert

Adverblog: Gucci, welcome to Web 2.0

(wow, after years of arguing and sweat and discussions of a window-in-a-window and pleading for standards etc it actually feels like a bit of an anticlimax)