skittle tweets

Finally an advertiser finding a use for twitter that works. The geniuses behind all of Skitttles brilliant ads have developed a twitter use that finds all the uses of the word skittles on Twitter. Hilarious results, some of my favorite being skittles and creepes for all, What would you do if you pooped skittles? And Skittles are like vitamins but tastier. Check it out for yourself at skittles.com

Snakes on a Monday to Friday Plane

Ever watch something on TV that’s edited for small children? Here’s a great, hilarious one from the infamous Snake on a Plane.

Tiny links

Don’t you hate it when someone send you a link that takes up fifteen lines of an email. There’s got to be a better way. Well there is at tinyurl.com. Here you can take an obnoxiously long link like this:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=tiny+url+is+the+coolest&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=
and turn it into this:
http://tinyurl.com/justinrulez
You can even add your own extension to it.
If that’s to many characters for you try http://tr.im/
Great for use with Twitter.

Gay Fish Y'all

South Park is always good for a necessary cheap shot against people. They’ve been able to convince people that Guitar Hero wasn’t cool, Family Guy was lame and rip into the likes of Britney Spears, Bono, The Catholic Church, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, and Al Gore to name a few. A couple weeks ago they took a shot at the self proclaimed “greatest rapper in the World,” Kanye West with hilarious results. Check out this clip from the episode, it’s without a doubt the funniest bit of South Park this season. To see the full episode go to www.southparkstudios.com

La-la-lolla

It’s officially here. The release of the 2009 Lollapalooza schedule. My first experience was last year when I lived in Chicago, and it was great. If you’ve never gone before this would be a great year you have a nice variety of big name bands (The Killers, Tool), hip hop (Snoop Dog, Beastie Boys, Atmosphere), smaller awesome bands that are starting to get bigger (Silversun Pickups, TV on the Radio), British bands that are rule (Arctic Monkeys, Kaiser Chiefs), and many, many other bands that are flying under the radar. To see the full lineup, click here. August 7-9 2009 in Grant Park Chicago.

Kinetic energy online

Here’s a great example of a way to take something boring and make it cool. I love anything with kinetic motion. Check it out Don't click on anything, just wait for the action to start.

And here it is with a pool table.

Dead men do tell tales.

I’m a huge Michael Crichton fan, and I’m not sure how I feel about this. As most people are aware of, the author of such amazing novels like Jurassic Park, Congo, and The Andromeda Strain died of Cancer last November 4th. For me he was a favorite author and is really the reason I became interested in reading in the first place. I recently found out that there are plans to release two of his novels post mortem. One will be a pirate novel called Pirate Latitudes and will focus on pirates in the New World. This novel is scheduled for a November 2009 release.

The second is based on notes found on his computer and will be fully fleshed out by another author. It is a techno thriller and is scheduled to come out sometime in 2010. My problem is the raiding of Crichton’s computer for profit. Obviously his publishers are hurt by their loss, but do they need to capitalize on his death by publishing notes left on his computer? The pirate story I’m fine with, but the plans to release a book basically written by someone else and using some notes from his computer doesn’t sit well with me. There are several novels that are just notes on his computer and could be re-written but should they? Is it better to leave a legacy, or have it tarnished by someone else that may take an idea he once had and make it something totally different? Anyone have an opinion?

Read the NY Times article.

Nine

Check out this full scene from "9" a new movie coming out 9-9-09 produced by Tim Burton. I know that this is one of the movies I'm most excited for in the coming year and this clip definitely supports it. Check it out.