monster.com superbowl ad

the greatest business card of all time

found via Reddit

your knee is hung like a horse

high five explosion glove

This post comes in two parts, please feel free to enjoy one or both, depending on your level of nerd.

Part A: The 90's called and they "So wish they invented this"

Part B: Nerd Alert! (or, she's hot, smart and can fix your motorbike... Probably)

found via @AdamsConsulting

today show in 1994 asks: what is the internet?

via @_SarahWilson_

assange vs zuckerberg: the a-z of 2010

found here via @RodSherwin

27bslash6; standing up to douchebags everywhere

I'm sure most of you are familiar with David Thorne's work over at the utterly brilliant 27bslash6.com

If not, maybe start with this infamous and extremely funny email thread he posted between himself and a fairly self-involved receptionist hoping to find her cat.

His humour is dry and unmistakably Australian, often using articulate, verbose email threads to highlight recent hypocrisy or downright stupidity.

However in this case, after a particularly unpleasant experience with a local snowboard store, he created this ad to totally screw them over.

And boy, did it work.

The hilarious results can be read here but for those who can't be bothered reading the whole thing, here is my favourite part

From: David Thorne
Date: Friday 21 January 2011 2.17pm
To: anton@function4sports.com
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Advertisement

Dear Anton,

Yes, I am pretty sure if I ran a snowboardsurfing shop the last thing I would want is people new to the sport mistakenly entering my premises with the intention of exchanging goods for money. What a bunch of 'loosers'. You should probably have that on your front door instead of the welcome sign. Otherwise, people might read the word 'welcome' and mistakenly think they are welcome.

Perhaps you could incorporate a sign similar to the 'You must be this tall to ride' kind displayed at carnivals, but amend it to 'You must be this cool to enter' with a big red arrow pointing to photos of Fatty, Tattooey and Fuzzy.

shirotokuro: design in black & white

Often the best way to communicate is by finding the lowest common denominator. This can mean the simplest of words, place names or in this case, colours.

If you are searching for visual inspiration of the mono-chromatic variety, look no further than shirotokuro.com

found via @designmilk

See and download the full gallery on posterous

watch a bubble freeze

creative dollars

via @Ben_Phillips

how would you like your graphic design?

created by Colin Harman

found via our very own Ruby Spicer

photoshop tutorial rap with CMY Killah

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

found via Bennet Parker

best viewed in netscape navigator

According to his personal homepage, Bart Jellema is a born computer wizard. He is also the founder of some of the most positive and innovative startups in the Australian tech industry, more information about this is also available on his site.

But that's not why you should go there.

You need to check out BartJellema.com because it's the digital equivalent of the awesomely crap birthday card that you can't help opening four or five times in the newsagent, just to see how much it annoys the store owner.

And because nothing is better than annoying text following your mouse around a green page.

Check it out here, found via @KateKendall

logs prohibited

via the super awesome SteMuzz.com

flatmate wanted, please contact warren

via @VijayKhurana

htc phone battery takes a bullet for a security guard

Worth watching just to hear the word 'coat' in an Atlanta accent.
Also... A phone saved this guy's life.

ride the gravitron like a boss

found via@zootymoose

nike + danny kass x arbito

I think I already wrote a post about these boots when I first saw the Nike campaign last year but for some reason they have been in my head all day and I had to look them up again. Not only are the boots unbelievably rad, but I figured out why they were in my head... It's the damn catchy tune Kass used on his Yellow Submarine-esque video for the collab with Seattle artist Arbito

Check out the whole kit and caboodle here

jurassic park... the chillout sessions

If you're reading this post, you probably spend a lot of time at your computer. And if you're like most people who work long into the night, be it coding the matrix, writing your legal defence or designing the next YouPorn, you probably prefer to listen to lyricless, ambient music in the background.

If so, you may also enjoy this epic long remix of the Jurassic Park theme song, originally composed by the brilliant John Williams. 

Williams, also responsible for other thematic masterpieces including Indiana Jones, Star Wars Jaws and Superman, is remarkably absent from the production of this latest snorefest hoested by Soundcloud.com

Perhaps he is working on an orchestral version of my favourite track to work to, which you can find at the aptly titled rainymood.com (or perhaps he is busy trying to figure out my very clever reference to Laura Dern's soon-to-be ex husband in the pic above)

Either way, he's a legend... And I still much prefer the original T-Rex mix

landsharing: for the common good

Landshare is an idea and effort initiated by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall of River Cottage fame and is based on the simple principle of matching people who want to grow things to people who have idle or excess land to grow something on. Fitting neatly into the new world mantra of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle under the newest category – Redistribute… The idea of collaborative consumption is gaining momentum and Landshare is a perfect example — allowing an unutilized resource (land) to be put back into effective use. And the really excellent news about Landshare is that it is now in Australia (the only other country outside the UK)  - LandshareAustralia!

Taken from a great blog post at 

theneffkitchen.com.au

light up my bike

Step One. "Who got's da lighter?"

Step Two. "Dis-assemble!"

Step Three. Gentlemen, start your engines

Step Four. Find a new hobby, this one is taken

things real people don't say about advertising

Maybe it's because I work in marketing, but I don't think I have laughed this hard in a very long time.

I hope you enjoy this snippet of brilliance from a great blog called Things Real People Don't Say About Advertising

found via @CreativeSocial

the weirdest poodle exercise video you'll see all day

From the video description on YouTube:

"This is a mesmerizing and frightening video. It's a word-for-word parody of Susan Powter's first workout video, featuring poodles and a crazy poodle-woman. Absolutely surreal. It was made by Nagi Noda for Panasonic. It was part of 10 films they made for the 2004 Athens Olympics."

found via @trendhunter

the afterparty

Triple J's Lindsay 'The Doctor' McDougall and I were just about to have a chat on air about "breaking the ice" with a weird piece of clothing (until the line dropped out).
I know you have all been waiting for the big reveal of our wedding / afterparty outfits... Well here is just a taste.

if ad agencies organised kids birthday parties

The video says it all. Found thanks to @zootymoose

Julian Assange Colouring Book

Whether he makes you laugh or makes you proud as punch to live in a world full of bullshit, Wikileaks founder and figurehead Julian Assange is a character we have all become familiar with in recent times.

"But what about the children!?" I hear you ask... "How will they come to know this courageous yet frighteningly pale dude?"

Welcome to the Julian Assange Colouring Book where your offspring can paint this man whatever colour they like.

Here are some gallery examples from some other very clever kiddies;

Make your own super awesome colouring in book here

found via Courtney Hocking

See and download the full gallery on posterous

homeless dude with the golden voice

I know you've probably already heard about this guy, but it's gotta be one of the greatest social media success stories.

Read the full story over here at the NY Post, or just check out his extraordinary tale in the video below.

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heavy metal christmas lights

I have only made one post in the past few weeks due to lack of internet connectivity etc but it turns out even that one never appeared.

The only thing worse than an undelivered, out of context Christmas post is a lame excuse... So just enjoy the work of a die hard metal fan who posted this video to his young daughter's youtube account in 2009, and the awesome follow up vid from a few weeks ago. Even if you hate metal (and you're the Grinch), you have to love the original description this uber bogan left on his post

SLAYER!! I HAVE BEEN A FAN FOR OVER 20 YEARS AND THIS TOOK ME A LONG TIME TO DO.WATCHING IT IN PERSON WAS AWESOME. DEDICATED TO SLAYER AND ALL THE FANS!!!!! SLAYERBOBT SOUTHERN CA. P.S. THIS WAS MY DAUGHTERS ACCOUNT SO THATS WHY I HAVE A BAD USERNAME! SLAYER RULES .THIS IS DONE USING LIGHTORAMA CONTROLLERS.THE LIGHTS AT THE END OF THE SONG ARE ON FOR LESS THAN A TENTH OF A SECOND AT A TIME.REALLY INTENSE...THIS WAS UP IN 2009 .NOW THAT ITS A BIG HIT I WILL BE PROGRAMMING A NEW SONG FOR 2010 AND GET IT UP HOPEFULLY BEFORE XMAS.

We waited all year for his next move... And here it is.

I hope LacyCute20 is really proud of her Daddy, he rulez.