Rendering the video of a Jmac's Arcade now, but it won't be done tonight, and I'm entering into Busy Land so I don't know when it will be done. Maybe tomorrow if I can grab the time. This one will be pretty short, at just over three and a half minutes ( Read more... )

Now that I've started posting there, I can plug advert_eyes, a community that colorwheel started a little while ago. It's for discussions about advertising. The most recent posts have me building cockamamie theories linking banner ad effectiveness with evolutionary biology, and later I admit to liking veggie burgers. You don't want to miss this.

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One of the angel groups I threw an unsolicited pitch at last week has set up an informal meeting with us this Thursday. This is in addition to the semi-solicited meeting with a VC person that we already have scheduled a couple of weeks out.

Woo woo. Wish us luck.

(Also another angelic representative, from River Valley Investors, sent me a ( Read more... )

I like this stack of ads seen on BoingBoing, which (top to bottom) go from transcendental to earthy to one of the most jawdroppingly cynical appeals I've ever seen.

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This is a brilliant ad, in both visual design and message.

Readers of Boing Boing or cnoocy will know the punchline already, but if you don't, take a look at this version that I've intentionally shrunk so that its smaller text is illegible.


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For whatever reason, the ~10-year-old Cross/Odenkirk launch vehicle Mr. Show seems to have risen in visibility lately. As I didn't have any HBO in the 1990's, I didn't even hear of the show until a couple of years ago, when its release on DVD generated some trickle-down buzz. After Netflixing one of these DVDs, I understood why: it's a sketch ( Read more... )

My parents finally picked up a Globe to check real estate prices 'round here. They didn't believe the numbers I have recited to them, until now. But then this led into another long lecture (in the academic sense) about home-buying strategies, so I know it didn't really discourage them from their dream of seeing their youngest become a homeowner; ( Read more... )

Hey, I don't remember that being there. (Look closely.) (Yes, it's in the movie version, too.) (From Derek Vadala)

Still not used to having a "moblog" (cough) camera... walking right past obvious photo opportunities and not realizing it until my walk-mind momentum has carried me too far away to turn around and go back. I'll get on the ball eventually ( Read more... )