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Promo dyslexia: Like the classic Dairy of Anne Frank (about a Jewish girl who ran a convenience store during the war), this week’s promo for TV One’s flagship local drama was about a dead guy named “Brain”.

Giving joint pain medication a helping hand: In this in-pharmacy promotion, you can buy a replacement hand or foot.

Swiss agency Saatchi & Saatchi Simko placed 16 hand-crafted body parts — in clear-front packages proclaiming “New Elbow for the ‘trying the Roger Federer’ type” and “New Wrist for the ‘writing the next best seller’ type” — in pharmacies, stacked like retail displays.

Perspective: Quote of the day.

Repost: Vintage fashion mag takes the piss out of fashion poses.

Video link: The Danish Cancer Society goes for the jugular with their “tanning can kill you” PSA. I saw it coming, did you?

The New York Times on the Dancing Matt Harding internet video phenomenon.

“In many ways “Dancing” is an almost perfect piece of Internet art: it’s short, pleasingly weird and so minimal in its content that it’s open to a multitude of interpretations. It could be a little commercial for one-world feel-goodism. It could be an allegory of American foreign policy: a bumptious foreigner turning up all over the world and answering just to his own inner music. Or it could be about nothing at all — just a guy dancing.

However you interpret it, you can’t watch “Dancing” for very long without feeling a little happier…The backgrounds are often quite beautiful. And there is something sweetly touching and uplifting about the spectacle of all these different nationalities, people of almost every age and color, dancing along with an uninhibited doofus.

Video: Ice cream metaphor to explain the main benefits of social media.

(Via Julie Starr’s Evolving Newsroom)