Kottke.org has a interesting look at the new NBA commercials showing players isolated from the crowds.
Bryant creates 95% of the offense here by crossing Pippen over and throwing a perfect lob to O’Neal. O’Neal throws it down and the camera follows him as he heads down the court yelling in celebration, totally blowing right past Kobe, who has his hand out to high-five Shaq. Kobe half-heartedly grabs at O’Neal’s forearm as he passes; Shaq doesn’t even notice.
Not sure I’m in love with his new album yet but still love Eminem freestyling…
If I had the coordination to do a flip with an exercise ball I would just carry the thing around with me all day showing off – just found these guys as well.
Mediapost reports on how marketers are increasingly understanding the connection between online queries and offline purchases. It is the everpresent quandry of how you connect what people are searching for with what they are actually buying. The question becomes more complicated with larger purchases that have a extended buying timline like a car. Specifically targeting what people are searching six months prior to a purchase and how often the visit OEM sites in contrast to third-party vendors. With ever stretched marketing budgets understanding behaviors like these could be a gold mine for Google.
No matter how much of a grill master you are it’s always nice to look over a couple of useful tips for BBQ season.
There was recently a very interesting reddit thread asking:
So many of our grandparents were racist, and some of our parents are homophobes. Which of our own closely held beliefs will our own children and grandchildren by appalled by?
One user has collected a list of the best ones a few interesting ones include:
That Druges were Illegal – Privacy – Religious Overtolerance – Imprisonment vs. Rehabilitation – Aversion to Designer Babies – Nationalism – Eating Meat
Not gonna lie, I love time lapse video. This one tracks one of those HUGE commercial ships as it leaves harbor at night, I can’t imagine trying to navigate one of these monsters.
Radio Show Host: Oh yeah I’ll get waterboarded to show you it’s not a big deal
Audience: Really, ok but…
Radio Show Host: OH MY GOD THIS IS TORTURE!
Britain is set for the hottest day of the year so far. I’m just putting this out there because if anyone in the States has any friends in the UK, make sure to let them know they will need sunscreen, sunglasses, possibly an umbrella to protect form the sun, and other heat protection attire. Be careful because temperatures will be soaring and no one wants to suffer from heat stroke.
This one is for Lesley Ross, RunPee is a site that tells you exact moments during movies to run to the bathroom and then what happened while you were gone.
Group of people over at Samsung took 24 SSD hard drives and put them in RAID to create this monster
Will Ferrell was schedule to sing a song on the finale of America Idol, this is that song. It IS the GREATEST SONG IN THE WORLD.
You know what I was thinking the other day? I could REALLY use a huge cheese carving of the Statue of Liberty, that sounds like something worth spending time and money on…. wait a second…. no it doesn’t.
