This has the DNA of the Doctor Pepper adverts, with that underlying, uncomfortable humor that had me rolling around on the floor at work for 10 minutes straight. If you’re easily offended, turn away, if not you may also like this Durex Viral video…. roll tape!
I for one have been really worried by the prospect of getting swine flu. Thankfully some scientist boffin types somewhere have come up with a tool that tells you quickly and easily whether you have contracted it or not.
We’ve been having fun with a cool little tool that converts JPEG images into ASCII code. When we crop and size this image to 60×50 this tool churns out a remarkably similar representation of the image. The further away you stand, the clearer it becomes. Here are some we made earlier of some friends.
Zoe Piper of Piggynap.com
Dominic Hodgeson of TheHodge.co.uk
Simon Barker of Zath.co.uk
Dave Naylor of Davenaylor.co.uk
The legend that is Boris Johnson.
New comers
Adrian Thomson of Adrianthompson.net/blog/
If you want one of your own, leave a comment below with your email.
I once saw this ad a few years back. My boss took me into the office to ask me what the car was in the advert. I suggest you get close to the screen with the sound on as the car is quite difficult to see…
Outspoken saleswoman Debra, and Apprentice contestant, is to sell advertisements on her face. “Spare-Face”, as the UK general public has come to know her as, came up with the entrepreneurial idea after an off hand comment, from another contestant, was made about how much spare space her face had. Not one to take things personally, Debra “Spare-face” hatched a cunning plan to capitolise on her facial assets (or lack of) and to sell advertisements on there while on the show.
The Apprentice drew in 8.1 million viewers on the opening show, giving the potential rental value of Debra’s forehead, cheeks and chin a high price tag. Producers have agreed a cut-share of the profits from the revenue generated and we can expect the first advertisements to be shown on the next show.
Slot A has already been sold to a new private property portal Bethemiddleman for the term of the show, amount undisclosed. Slots B, C and D are in talks with other advertisers.
Got a spare 5 seconds? Turn the volume up press play… again and again!
Funnier the more I watch this ROFL!
Condomunity.com – The new film for Durex takes a decidedly comedic twist (umposition?) on encouraging the use of its products in the US. The short is called Get it On and done by the excellent Süperfad team. All video credits and sincere thanks Superfad.com.
Is this better than the Cabury’s Gorilla advert or the Compare the Meerkat campaign?
One of my favourite websites Geekologie.com posted this awesome Periodic Table of Typefaces and I just had to repost it. It’s a typographers wet dream, a real geek feast for any nerd.
The uber geeky table features The 100 Best fonts Of All Time, according to 100besteschriften.de, ranking determined by sorting lists and opinions from this and a few other websites, all detailed on the bottom of the table.
Download and save it as your desktop wallpaper >
Simply click on the image above, save it to your desktop then set it as your wallpaper. There you will have a permanent typeface reference of some of the greatest fonts of all time. I’m just checking to see if Comic Sans is on the list… I hope to god not!
In the early hours of Sunday, 22nd February 2009, a savage virus called ‘CSV’ began to infect millions of websites worldwide.
Originating from an unknown source in the UK at around 2am GMT, The “Comic Sans” Virus ‘CSV’ started corrupting the CSS files of websites through a server loophole, leaving them defaced with the “Comic Sans” typeface.
By 9am GMT, an estimated 10 million websites were infected with ‘CSV’, by which time the suspected ‘loophole’ in the servers configuration, at the originating London Exchange center, was plugged.
By 9:31am GMT, over 5 million websites were returned to their original state, leaving the rest still infected with ‘CSV’.
A patch download has been created to remedy any websites still infected. This patch can be downloaded at the bottom of this article.
Evidence of infection
Apple
Estimated infection time: 3 hours
Microsoft
Estimated infection time: 6 hours
UK newspapers
Times Online
Estimated infection time: 1 hour
Telegraph
Estimated infection time: 2 hours
Friends
Chrisg (Chris Garrett)
Estimated infection time: 15 minutes
Bronco (Dave Naylor)
Estimated infection time: still infected
Blog Storm (Patrick Altoft)
Estimated infection time: still infected
Reaction
Dave Naylor from Bronco: “I woke up to the news that the CSV infected our main website. After a few moments of deliberation, we decided to take action, much against the wishes of my wife who actually liked the change.”
Mogens Elsberg from Microsoft: “I see this little f***** has come back to bite us in the a**! Maybe we should have scrapped VINCENT CONNARE’s 1995 font for a less volatile alternate. Thanks for the heads up Frog”
John Smith, Chief Executive of BBC worldwide: “We think the British public will welcome the change, we may revert the fix in the next couple of days.”
The Patch
If your website seems to have been infected by the CSV you can manually patch your website by downloading the file below:
CSV patch 1.21, Multi-OS compatible: CSV patch.jpg
