Archive for August 24, 2006

Messin’ With Sasquatch

YouTube and Google Video have become platforms for jerks to do mean things to each other.
Jack Link’s Beef Jerky has created a campaign that spins the whole prank video in a pretty funny way. It’s called “Messin’ with Sasquatch”, and while it’s certainly not what you could call highbrow humour, a couple of the spots [...]

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Modern Mechanix

I posted yesterday about a great archive of old ads called adclassix.
Today, I stumbled on a similar — and similarly amusing — repository: Modern Mechanix.
Pretty well-written, and tons of fun to trawl through, though, assuming you like that sort of thing.
But really, what’s not to like about this?

Where was that free book when I needed [...]

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popurls

If you haven’t seen it yet, Popurls is a pretty decent way to get a snapshot of what’s bubbling up around the Internet’s water cooler. The site functions as an aggregator of top hits from del.icio.us, digg, reddit, metafilter, youtube, flickr and about a dozen other sites.
It’s no replacement for your daily news, but trawling [...]

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