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Category: humour
new advertising – see Colonel Sanders from space
Ad executives everywhere are ripping out hair trying to find new ways not to get fired. Old advertising models are dying.
Those working for KFC did something totally unique and big scale. They built an 87,500 square-foot Colonel Sanders in the desert. It took a team 3,000 hours to create a logo that was big enough to see from space!
(via Amber Mac)
Why?
So guys like me would post it on a blog, spreading good will for deep fried factory chicken. Free viral advertising.
To see a time lapse of the construction click PLAY, or watch it on Google Video.
Note: Google Video really does have a far better feature set than YouTube (which is also now full of trashy advertising). Since Google owns both, it will be interesting to see how they evolve in parallel.
illusions optical
Thanks Cal.
goodbye Justin Long?
This is a mockument tribute to the great Apple vs PC TV commercials.
But the ad campaign is rumoured to be over. Customers prefer the nerdy PC (John Hodgman) over the cool Mac guy, Justin Long.
But there’s hope. Justin Long says he is scheduled for more. I hope so. They are brilliant.
Flickr Find: Get a Mac ad with a twist – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
life is full of small victories
photo emailed to me by Dave C.
truffles – best blog post ever?
Superb photo / cartoon / video blog post on eating a US$300 meal of truffles.
see the rest of the cartoon – The Amateur Gourmet: Chutzpah, Truffles & Alain Ducasse
Robert J. Sawyer tribute to Randy McCharles
Canada’s greatest SciFi writer toasted (almost roasted) my brother who had been chosen for an award at a SciFi convention in Vancouver.
Congratulations Rand on recognition for your many years contribution to SciFi Fantasy Fiction.
In Vancouver today, the science-fiction convention VCon 31 begins. Fan Guest of Honour is my great friend Randy McCharles. I wrote the tribute to him for the convention’s program book (and will also be conducting the Guest of Honour interview with him on Saturday afternoon). Here’s the tribute:
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These days, the only ethnic jokes that can be made with impunity are those about one’s own group. Randy McCharles likes to portray himself as being thrifty, and often underscores this by saying, “I’m Scottish,” as if a certain parsimony was bred in his bones.
It’s true that Randy likes to get value for his money: he loves salt-and-pepper chicken wings, and can tell you which Calgary pubs have them cheap on which nights of the week. (Still, he expects quality; I was with him recently when he lamented, “These aren’t really fifteen-cent wings; they’re more like nine-cent wings.”) But all of his apparent cheapness hides an incredible generosity of spirit. I have never seen Randy fail to provide a lift to someone, no matter how far out of his way it took him, and he’s always there to help a friend. When my travels have brought me to Calgary, Randy has often put me up at his immaculate townhouse; at times, it’s been quite the hotel for writers, with three or four of us crashing simultaneously at Chez McCharles. … read more
another internet photo mystery solved
After being, I think, the first blog to announce (twice) the “Stremnaya Road”, Bolivia actually the Guoliang Tunnel in China mystery solved , I am on to a new investigation.
This time declaring this Tibetan photo was not taken in Tibet:
… check my hiking blog to see where tourists are allowed to scramble this cliff.
when did Halloween get … BIG?
This was a dying excuse for an annual holiday. No?
A symbol of excess and needless consumer spending hyped by Wal-Mart and the dental industry?
Yet Halloween is HUGE in Vegas. (Masks no longer allowed in Casinos, though.)
I enjoyed the party hosted by Tom and Karen Otjes, escapees from frozen Canada. We were coaching colleagues in Calgary for years. Now Tom is Head Coach of Cirque du Soleil’s “O” at the Bellagio, the company’s largest production.
more photos from the party on Flickr
Meanwhile, in Saskatoon, disguised partiers raced around town in taxi-vans attempting to “beg, borrow or trick our way into getting strangers to give us stuff. Nothing counted if we didn’t get it on video tape.”
In this likely illegal contest, Warren’s team won.
photos of the revelry – Warren Long
» next travelogue post on this trip – Le Halloween est Mort
Comedy Central videos back on YouTube
Just a publicity stunt? Announce you are pulling your copyrighted video as a ploy to increase TV ratings?
Or is Comedy Central confused?
They post free clips of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report on their own website. But the Comedy Central website sucks! (Despite their ad campaign stating “Our website no longer sucks”.)
It is much more convenient to see the highlights on YouTube.
Click PLAY to see Colbert’s take on the issue. Or watch the clip (hopefully) on YouTube.
Rick McCharles 