The Price of a Pint — Worldwide
The price of a pint in 180 countries. Apparently it’s $3.30 at the Vatican bar.
June 2008
“No excuse for not not voting” — The Onion
Our morning show’s political correspondent offers tips on how you can seem informed about politics without picking up a single newspaper.
The Art of Oleg Dou
Selection from the “Tears” Exhibit. “I worked hard to create my own style and technique. The main tool is computer photo-manipulation and a mix of several photos. I’ve already created several art projects and showed them in a few countries, including France, Belgium and the USA.” […]
Wordle — Word cloud generator, curiously addictive
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use […]
Glide Dental Floss Pig
Saatchi & Saatchi New York ambient for Glide Dental Floss involves a pig. I have no idea what a pig has to do with dental floss. Are they saying that I have a bit of pork rind jammed between my teeth just like this pig is jammed between buildings? Are […]
Freestyle Street Soccer
Freestyle Street Soccer. This doesn’t appear to be a sponsored viral, but who knows, fun to watch just the same.
The Art of Joshua Petker
From Fecal Face interview: I like juxtapositions. Putting blue on top of red is fun for me. Life and the world can be pretty dark but I believe, all in all, in good, even when it’s bad. I see the bright neon colors like too much sugar. Like the way […]
The website is down! From the viewpoint of an IT guy.
Hilarious look at the life of a tech support person versus the evil Sales Guy, a la You Suck at Photoshop. Link to clip. [Via]
Beirut fast food — Buns and Guns
From BBC: A fast-food restaurant in Beirut's war-torn southern suburb has hit upon an explosive way to attract customers. Buns and Guns is made out to look like a military post and diners eat to the sound of gunfire instead of muzak. Owner Yousef Ibrahim presents rebranded Lebanese favourites like […]
Le Le’s Breakfast ~ Art by Piet Parra ~ NSFW
Video for Le Le’s hit song ‘Breakfast’. It consists solely of drawings made by Piet Parra that are also used as loops during the live performances. The song is about bitches and eggs…