Tuesday, March 7, 2006

Just move forward and back a few times. It's pretty cool.



(via The Hidden Persuader)
For the kitties in the audience.



ItchyKnee :: Designer Pet Products

(Bradley comes through with another great tip. And a good giggle.)
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Philips Electronics and its agency, Omnicom’s DDB, New York, came up with a great idea recently. Why not do something that its audience will really appreciate? The idea was to buy the four minutes of screen time that cinemas usually sell to advertisers and run a 15-second spot that told the audience Philips was helping the movie start sooner. Only problem was Screenvision, seller of cinema ads, wouldn’t let them do it.

AdAge.com :: THIS MOVIE STARTS ON TIME, THANKS TO OUR SPONSOR

(Thanks for the tip, Travis!)
Times Online :: Walking on all fours with the ancestors

FIVE brothers and sisters who can only walk naturally on all fours are being hailed as a unique insight into human evolution, after being found in a remote corner of rural Turkey.

[...] Some researchers claim that genetic faults have caused the siblings to regress in a form of “backward evolution”. Other scientists argue more strongly that their genes have triggered brain damage that has allowed them to develop the unique form of movement.


(Thanks for the tip, Bradley!)
Is an autograph a true autograph if the author isn't there?

I can't decide if this is incredibly lame or incredibly cool.

Author Margaret Atwood has invented a remote-controlled pen which allows her to sign books for her fans from thousands of miles away.

BBC NEWS :: Author Atwood invents 'magic' pen