MGD hides nothing with campaign

At least it's a slightly fresh take on beer commercials....

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Hooker Sues Pornographer For Immorality

Eliot Spitzer call girl Ashley Dupre can sexually exploit herself just fine, thank you, and doesn't need any help from Girls Gone Wild, the video company she is now suing in federal court in Miami. Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis had offered Dupre $1 million to pose for a nude video, but rescinded the offer when he found footage of a 17-year-old Dupre in his archive of drunken teen nudity. He repackaged the footage as Hooker Gone Wild, and Dupre is accusing Francis of marketing the video in a way that makes it sound hotter than it actually is, i.e. properly fulfilling his duties as Chief Poontang Officer at Girls Gone Wild:

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trapped in an Elevator for 41 Hours....

Claustrophobics be warned.

Long NewYorker Article

Filter Google Results by Date with a URL Trick

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Austria: woman was 'imprisoned by father for almost 25 years'

Police last night entered the homemade dungeon where a 73-year-old engineer allegedly held his daughter captive for almost a quarter of a century, sexually abusing her and fathering up to seven children.

The world never ceases to amaze me.....
What a disturbing story.

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Just Wow

This video review really shows what the game can do without spoiling it.
I might just have to move the purchase date of my PS3 up now....

London Underground has a hot 'Tunnel of Love'

50% of London's Underground travelers admitted to swapping numbers, dating or having sex (not on the tube) … 1 in 100 even married someone they met on the Underground. 9/10 admitted to a 'missed moment' when they did not take things further with a fellow passenger. ... this could be very helpful info for planning your journey.

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LoL

Who Wears Short Shorts? - Watch more free videos

Keep Your Surfing and Files Safe, Foo!

Five important security apps for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows

A great list of FREE (and some pay if you opt for it) apps to keep your pr0n from your kids......

Ars Article

Hard times ahead as porn goes soft?

Economists are citing some dire portents of a recession these days, but they've missed one indicator I find especially disturbing: The porn business has suddenly gone flaccid.

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DANCE PARTY!

Tickets copped.
Get yours soon @ Rotate This, Soundscapes or Online.
Promises to be a gay ol' time. (in both senses of the word)

DIY Camera Stand

Anyone that's taken a couple photos knows the value of a tripod.
This nice little ditty gives you all the features of the 'gorillapod' at a fraction of the cost.

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10 Percent of Broadband Subscribers Suck Up 80 Percent of Bandwidth But P2P No Longer to Blame

No, p2p is no longer the single biggest traffic whore, responsible for only 20 percent of total traffic. It's streaming video, like YouTube and Hulu, which is now 50 percent of total traffic. During peak congestion—the times when Comcast will slow you down for hitting the pipe too hard—70 percent of it is http.

Does this mean ISPs are going to stop throttling encrypted packets? No
Are they going to start throttling video? Most likely.
Are they going to stop advertising fast up/download rates, but really not offer it? Of course not.

How is this legal?

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Science 2.0 -- Is Open Access Science the Future?

Is posting raw results online, for all to see, a great tool or a great risk?

Interesting Article.
Long read, but the first page has a "Key Concepts" Section.

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A Cellphone's Missing Dot Kills Two People, Puts Three More in Jail

The use of "i" resulted in an SMS with a completely twisted meaning: instead of writing the word "sıkısınca" it looked like he wrote "sikisince." Ramazan wanted to write "You change the topic every time you run out of arguments" (sounds familiar enough) but what Emine read was, "You change the topic every time they are fucking you" (sounds familiar too.)

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Milan Furniture Fair 2008

OLED Wallpaper

A collection of some great new works.

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Also Check this new OLED Tree Lamp. Energy efficient and stylish.

Free 'Cab' Rides in TO

Go Mobile Media and Lipton Green Tea are giving commuters a free lift this summer.

The ice tea company has signed on to sponsor an eight-cab fleet of “green” three wheeled, pedal-powered “EcoCabs,” set to hit the streets of Toronto, May 1.

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The Green Ad Effect

A recent survey from Burst Media revealed that green advertising has a stronger than average impact with consumers. Good, right? Well they have higher recall, but they aren’t necessarily buying into the messages. Maybe that’s due to the overwhelming amount of green claims consumers have been hit with

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Last Request: Please Don't Smoke

Last Request: Please Don't Smoke
Originally uploaded by Sean (Ajka_Hungary)

"Powerful Story (click image to link)"

Celebration Of Vintage and Retro Design

A great collection of Vintage Designs

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Digital Cuteness

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Kurt's Not Here Man.....

When bananas ruled the world

Intrigue. Power. Corruption. Death. Sex. The history of oil has nothing on that of the yellow fruit.

A long, but interesting read into the history of Central American politics and that lovely yellow fruit.

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New CEO Murphy makes $39.1 M trying to fix Gap

Interesting to see the Pay breakdown

Gap also paid Murphy $2.1 million in bonuses, including $1 million for taking the job, to supplement his $755,769 salary for a half year’s work. He received miscellaneous compensation of $363,593, including $50,000 to pay the lawyers who negotiated his contract and $182,301 for the personal usage of a company plane.

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Towel, Sunscreen, Swimsuit, and a Cup of Java?

As this ScienCentral report explains, research into the effects of caffeine in mice shows it can help get rid of sun damaged skin cells before they become cancerous.

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Violent Video Games =! Violence IRL

Some interesting points on the rubbish theory stating that violent games cause violence.



Thnx Y for the link.

HPV-related oral cancers rise among younger men

The sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer in women has now been linked to an uptick of throat, tonsil and tongue cancers - in a younger and healthier group of patients than doctors have ever seen before.

Things seem to be moving closer and closer to the virtual sex helmets from the movie Demolition Man :S
(no, not Snipes and Stallone, it was Bullock and Stallone)


Found this lil diddy on google, lol. Someone actually put time and energy into describing the likelyhood of all the tech from the movie actually coming true..... w/e, I used it

Virtual sex
Likelyhood: low
Time Frame: 2040+
Sex / brain technology:
Sex has been outlawed as dangerous and unclean. People are no longer used to touching each other.
Because sexual behavior is so heavily hardwired, it might be relatively easy to engineer with genetic and chemical interventions. But the societies that would contemplate doing this—North Korea and the Taliban in Afghanistan for instance—are dwindling. Westerners would not submit to it, whatever the wishes of some on the Christian right.
Virtual reality is substituted, with direct-to-brain "digital transference of sexual energies."
Some clunky devices for virtual sex are already being devised. But virtual sex won't replace the real thing until images and sensations can be downloaded directly into the brain—and this may never be possible.

From Here


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Clinton, Ouch

To All the Geeks Out There

This is some interesting shit.
"Why don't you come over and I'll setup a supernova for you"

To everyone else, this basically means we may be able to create a mini 'sun' reaction on earth producing clean energy.
Wowawewa

Simply Terrible

I am at a loss for words.

Please don't watch more than a couple seconds of this.
Just get an idea of what failure and embarrassment looks like, then continue with my other posts.
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"You're Found Guilty of Making Her Too Thin!"

French lawmakers adopted a ground-breaking bill that would make it illegal for anyone—including fashion magazines, advertisers and websites—to promote extreme thinness.

These will be pretty cut and dry cases......
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World Press Photo Award 2008

Surreal...That isn't CG...
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New Want

Samsung F480
It's like an iPhone, but not shit.

Announced 2008, February
Status Coming soon

Beef

With the commercialization of YouTube we have seen lots of content stripped. But I'm just pissed that now (could have started a while ago...) they are disabling embedding of some videos.
This absolutely boggles the mind.
Why the fuck would someone want to do that? If it is on YouTube, the purpose is to get the most eyes and embedding content on blogs and websites is a cornerstone of information sharing. This forces the creation of multiple copies of the same videos being created so one can be embedded.

Lil Wayne jokes limo/aight track


The other vid I was going to post was this 'new' Avril Single.
What in (insert your religious icon here) has caused such garbage to be deemed mainstream.
Ugh.

What's in your Water?

A little more on the 'save the earth' thread; I just saw a tv spot for thinkwater.ca and couldn't agree more. We really waste a lot of water, especially in our consumerist society of North America.
I was a big fan of the 2 flush button toilets when I was in Europe. Essentially, one for brown, one for yellow. Self explanatory.

Here's a great spot on bottled water.
I must admit, I turn to the bottle once in a while, but it started when the water that came out of my student house was brown.... I just couldn't go back to tap. But it was mostly for grabbing a bottle on my way out (convenience, I know, weak excuse).
And to think, I loved drinking from the hose when I was a kid in the summer.


Best Line "A dollar fifty for half a litre, that's $3/litre. Would you ever buy gas for $3/litre? "

Really comes down to the same argument with all these conservation things. If everyone just thinks about what they do, and doesn't needlessly waste, we're already be much better off.

Ok, I'll get off my soapbox.
Cheers.

SWAT!

The Beer Formula

I grow tired of the same thing.
I did chuckle at the 'throw your coat somewhere and knew it wouldn't be stolen' line though.

I prefer this beer diddy.
NWS
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Marketing Mag Article

Make Your Own Infused Vodka

"Maceration" may sound like some crazy combat maneuver, but it's really what happens when a flavor is steeped into a fluid. If you're using the process to add flavor to your vodka, it's given the much cooler moniker of "infusion." Vodka distillers have caught onto the craze, but for the most part they've stuck to common flavors like citrus. But with a decent jar, some produce, and lots of vodka, anyone can create their own signature flavored spirit.

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Blame games: bill says content makers liable for violence

Just to show you how backwards the US legislation is, they are trying to pin violent acts on content makers due to influence....

Article @ Ars

New Zealand copyright reform law schools US DMCA on fair use

Some interesting progress in DRM/copyright land.


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Al Gore: New thinking on the climate crisis

In Al Gore's brand-new slideshow (premiering exclusively on TED.com), he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of "generational mission" -- the kind of feeling that brought forth the civil rights movement -- to set it right. Gore's stirring presentation is followed by a brief Q&A in which he is asked for his verdict on the current political candidates' climate policies and on what role he himself might play in future.

Some scary motivational shit.
"Don`t just change the light bulbs, change the laws"
Thanks to N for the link.

Great Ad

Click to Enlarge.
Read the Copy reflected in the mirror.

"See John, it's a Question of Capacity..."

This pic is too money

Cellular providers are working hard to retain their customers as the market reaches the point of ubiquity. The advent of (relatively) hassle-free number portability, and network exclusives such as the iPhone has meant that operators have to come up with convincing reasons for their customers to stay put, and opening up the bandwidth taps is a pretty good one.

AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint now all offer unlimited calling plans for $99 per month, and Sprint goes the extra mile by including data services in that price.

Interesting to see if the infrastructure will be able to take it.
Just last week, Rogers, a Canadian cable/wireless/internet Service Provider introduced much tighter bandwidth restrictions because of this very issue.
Now of course we have terrible infrastructure compared to you southern neighbours, but with the exception of a couple metropolitan areas, the US is pretty far behind Japan and Europe.

Maybe they're banking on the fact that Wi-Max will be absorbing a majority of the bandwidth in the near future, thus not straining their systems. Who knows...

The problem is that the Telcos are not seeing a dime from content providers for all the bandwidth they take up, so a serious industry shift needs to take effect.


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What's Wrong with this World

Audi R8 parked @ a Walmart

Damn US Commies...

A bill currently under consideration in the Arizona state legislature would impose liability on persons who produce or distribute "dangerous or obscene" content (including audio, video, interactive media, and even written content) that is found to be the material cause of a terrorist act or felony.

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King of Ed Banger

Fellas at dejourmagazine did a nice little interview with the head honcho at Ed Banger.

Check it

Oh dear.....

A new low.....

Zombie Strippers Trailer

Can't.... Stop.... FB..... Creeping..... AHHHH

If you find yourself mindlessly clicking your facebook, flikr or any other website that you frequent.. well, you have a problem. Not only do you waste countless productive minutes, but its just a sad state of being.
As I am no exception to the rule, I decided I needed to fix my terrible surfing habbits and proactively change them.
In chimes LeechBlock.
Nice simple FF plugin that blocks sites you tell it to either during certain times, or for a max # of minutes / day. (I prefer the latter)


Stop wasting your time and get it here!

In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop

Sometimes it's surprising to think, well, how surprising something so obvious can be. I'm still in the infancy stages of running a 'blog', but reading a story like this really opened my eyes to something so obvious.
Some people write blogs to try and 'make it'. Become the next gizmodo and make the big bucks.
I for one am happy with posting what I like for later reference. It's nice for a couple people to read it, but as you can tell my by writing level, I didn't exactly study journalism.

One of the most competitive categories is blogs about technology developments and news. They are in a vicious 24-hour competition to break company news, reveal new products and expose corporate gaffes.

I love media and information, but I'll have to find a different way to earn a living off that interest, because if I won't want to read every post I write, why would any one else.

NY Times Article

Big Up Your Youtube Vids

After 4 consecutive 12 hr work days, I finally bring you a new post.

A fun little vid that shows you how to get mad hits on your youtube vid

It's Official

Apple passes Wal-Mart, now #1 music retailer in US

Over the past few years, we have watched Apple climb the music sales chart courtesy of the iTunes. Last month we learned that Apple passed Best Buy to become the number two retailer in the the US. Now, Apple has ascended to the top of the charts, surpassing Wal-Mart for the first time ever, according to the NPD MusicWatch Survey.

Apple be takin over..... ohnoes

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I'm F*cking Obama

I couple jokers made a nice little spoof of the I'm F*ucking Matt Daemon skit from the Jimmy Kimmel show.

Thanks to Y for the up

Colon Cancer Ads get Creative

To promote Ontario’s new colon cancer screening program, BBDO Toronto created a television commercial featuring two see-through men talking at a hardware store. One points out that the other seems to have colon cancer, prompting the second transparent man to say he’ll get it checked out. A voiceover ends the spot with “You’re probably not see-though, so talk to your family health care provider about getting checked.”

Great way to approach the subject. Kudos to BBDO.



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CRTC could let U.S. networks into Canada

Could it be true?
Could Canadians be getting HBO and ESPN?
Well.... maybe. Hearings start soon to see if the CRTC protectionism for CanCon will be lifted.

I think there needs to be a little help for the Canadian shows, but I'm all for bringing in competition. Tis the best way to grow after all.

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Free Ways to Synchronize Folders Between Computers

This post is mostly for my later reference

Check it if you need it.

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Document Your Party with Simple Photo Projects

If you want to sit back and let your party be documented for you, then check this little tutorial out.

All those bored people on facebook will thank you for allowing them to see what they missed.....


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Some Dumb Audio Clip

Funny
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Got some Cash to Blow?

This article says why not spend that nice little tax refund on some gadgets.

Most of the stuff is crap, but the Casio camera is pretty cool.

Let's face it. The reason your digital pictures suck has nothing to do with the number of megapixals in your camera. Even if you had a 30MB camera, you'd still capture your wife blinking, your kids just after they made that spectacular catch or the dog before he even jumps to catch the Frisbee.

That's why the Casio EX-F1 is so revolutionary. When you snap a photo, the camera doesn't take one, but 60 frames in a single second: 30 frames in the half-second after you press the button, and -- miraculously -- 30 frames in the half-second before you pressed it. Then, you can quickly scroll through those 60 frames, pick the perfect one and capture it for saving to the camera's storage.
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Even the flash is fast; a secondary LED flash can keep up with that 60 frame-per-second rate. And video! How about shooting super slow-mo at 1,200 frames per second?

Though sorting through all those images would suck, the 1200 frames/s video would be really fun to play with.

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