August 13 2007
Choice Links
posted by Ana Samways at 10:28 am
This ad for QSOL servers, published in a tech magazine, is causing a stir. Read more here.
Men Are From Google, Women Are From Yahoo: According to this Pew report , women view the Internet as a place to extend, support, and nurture relationships and communities. Men tend to see it as an office, library, or playground. Read the full report here.
An ad-campaign for UNICEF Germany which is “blackfacing” white children with mud to pose as “uneducated Africans”.
This lawyer is magic…
This woman is 86-years-old…
These are TV’s hairiest stars…
Want to give up smoking yet? I do. This helped.
Addictive Qualities of popular drugs by er, some stoner.
A map illustrating the average number of medals won per million people in an Olympic Summer Games between 1996 and 2004. Downunder looking good.
The value of New Zealand property is slip, slidin’ away.
Camila has no breasts! Very strange ad from Argentina:
August 13th, 2007 at 11:29 am
ha. this from 2000…
“Joe Safai, Qsol’s president, says the ad boosted sales significantly, but he has issued an apology and promises not to run it again. “Obviously it pissed off a lot of people. We’re not into that,” he says.”
When he promised not to run it again, he obviously dropped the caveat: “this year”.
August 13th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
Wow, that ad is surreally wonderful.
The hairest actors item was a have – it could have at least included Lee Majors (the Six Million Dollar Man) and Gil Gerard (Buck Rogers).
August 13th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
Or Ron Jeremy? Does he count as an actor (he was in Boondock Saints)? He looks like his mother knitted him.
August 14th, 2007 at 11:20 am
What is this hang-up Americans have about head? Jeez, next they’ll ban it for being un-Merkin.