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Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Happy Caturday
Gorgeous Purina ad:
I think my cat’s going to get bed envy when he sees some of the great snoozing places these kitties get.
Little Red Riding Hood
I was reminded of this delightful short recently. It contains analysis of all kinds of useful contextual information for LRRH’s journey, including aerodynamic information about a passing VW van.
Rated PG for hunter violence.
Well, This Settles That
Spiders are not repelled by chestnuts:
The Golden Candidate
I have a soft spot in my heart for the Newton Meffage Paq (with handwriting recognition!), but I never realized how absolutely essential it could have turned out to be.
Edited to add: This video is now unavailable.
W+K Old Spice Campaign Just Got Better
I know, right!?!
Got a question for the Old Spice man? Want to comment on his amazing abs? Do it. Reach out on Twitter, facebook, or your personal blog. He will find it and respond. You can follow the action on Twitter or on the Old Spice brand channel.
They have made a ton of these already, and Mustafa continues to be utterly charming. The man is a complete professional. Which of course is why I am so interested. Because after 15 years in the advertising industry, I deeply appreciate this kind of dedication and excellent creative. Yep.
UPDATE: Making the Old Spice response videos. They have made over 150 so far (June 14)!
Oh and he sent real flowers in real life to Alyssa Milano! I love this campaign.
I am in love with it.
I want to marry it.
UPDATE, June 15: Throwing in the towel. Don’t get excited, though – towel not actually thrown.
New Scholarship on Big Bird
Hurrah for Duct Tape!
…Richard Feynman argued that, in reality, the bouncing beads would not be capable of doing meaningful work. Feynman showed that, since the entire system operates at the same temperature, a pawl would occasionally slip off the wheel. As a result, the system would generate zero net movement.
Now, physicist Devaraj van der Meer from the University of Twente and his colleagues have demonstrated that such a machine can in fact spin the paddles forward only, generating a positive net movement … The key challenge was getting the vanes to move in the forward direction only, which the scientists achieved with – somewhat surprisingly – duct tape….
Is there anything duct tape can’t do? Besides break the second law of thermodynamics, I mean.
Newly created machine on Vimeo. Write-up at PhysOrg.com: Experiment finally proves 100-year-old thought experiment is possible .
The Ugly American
Basically a rodent, with a different tail. Flying rodents, that’s all they are. Good for nothing—apart from shooting.
Well, and paté.
Some people may find this equally true of red squirrels, but red squirrels have acquired a groundswell of support in the wake of their endangerment from aggression and squirrelpox thanks to the gray squirrel, a Victorian import from North America. Britain has adopted a policy of working to stem the tide of gray squirrels—which dramatically outnumber red squirrels, and have completely displaced the reds in most of England—hoping that control will enable the reds to bounce back as they slowly develop resistance to squirrelpox.
Watch Nutkin’s Last Stand, a POV documentary.