15 month ago
fastclemmy : YouTube - Silly MS-DOS 5 Promo Video - YouTube - Silly MS-DOS 5 Promo Video by fastclemmy The title says it all! microsoft hotlinks Nostalgia commercial ms-dos video Copy | React (0)
Simon Willison : Silly MS-DOS 5 Promo Video - Silly MS-DOS 5 Promo Video. I can’t decide if this is better or worse than the Windows 386 rap.
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21 month ago
cameron : LazerTag commercial - More 80's nostalgia, and one of the most epic commercials evar. Is it just me, or was LazerTag just glorified infrared remote controls? How we had the wool pulled over our eyes.
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22 month ago
Rod Begbie : Apple (UK and Ireland) - Get a Mac - Watch The New Ads - The Mac & PC on British TV are played by ace comedy double-act Mitchell & Webb. Genius! [via] #
Jon Hicks : UK "Get a Mac" adverts - I like the fact that our ads use Mitchell and Webb!
cameron : UK Get a Mac Ads are decidedly different - Most notably, the Mac character is not very hip and the PC is not John Hodgeman (via mandydale)
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plasticbag : Bloody Dove 'Campaign for Real Beauty' had to go and produce this quite good video just to make me all conflicted - This whole Dove campaign seems so fake and it's really profoundly aggravating, but this video is pretty clever and pretty smart - although I'm having trouble knowing whether I buy it. Seems to me most people compare themselves with hot friends and the you
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26 month ago
cameron : Pizza/Chili/Veggie Pops commercial (1986) - They satisfy your appetite, and are pops. What else can I say?
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26 month ago
cameron : YouTube - wilkins coffee 1 - Early Jim Henson/Frank Oz commercials for Wilkins coffee using proto-muppets and a good amount of violence.
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30 month ago
Rod Begbie : Swansea North Residents Association - NEWS - Tango do a nice spoof of that Sony bouncing-balls-in-SanFran advert. The rest of the astroturf site is pretty decent too. #
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plasticbag : Clearing up confusion about the Mac mini... - "Yes, it will boot headless, meaning with no display or video device connected, enabling you to have what I like to call an iServe."
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49 month ago
plasticbag : U2log.com - one of the first and best single-subject magazine-style weblogs - I'm not a great fan of U2, but it's still an impressive site - and more importantly was created way before Gawker media and the current fad for commercial webloggery. I wonder if it makes any money...
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Simon Willison : Metafilter new user signups are open - Requires a $5 one-time donation.
plasticbag : Memberships available on Metafilter for a one-off $5 donation to the server fund - The donation does not entitle you to any special treatment and if you misbehave you will be ejected. I quite like this approach as a way to deal with bandwidth and a way to cut down on rogue users abusing the system.
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