Protos

@dipdive.com they have Obama propaganda. They certainly made it look nice. Low budget black and white with a catchy tune. The cool thing is that it is pure pathos. Shear emotion, which might be natural since its a song.

It seems Obamas selling proposition is “Yes we can”. There are many reasons why such a message would be popular. When I hear it I think:

“Yes” –> This always sounds better than “No”
“We” –> Takes away accountability (“Well erhm,… I didn’t really do anything, but since *we* are a whole bunch of *people* things will work out”).
“can” –> Much better than cannot!

That is a perfect zietgeist formula. It is positive. It does not address problems. It just states “Yes we can!”. I am sure it was expensive to have consultants come up with this, but I keep seeing Homer Simpson saying “YES WE CAN!” at Springfield town hall. However it might just prove to communicative mastery.

No matter what happens that Hillary Clinton person seems very scary. Whenever I see her speak on CNN, I am thinking she just looks and sounds evil… or well, at least the opposite of friendly, amicable and likable? That fake crying was really scary.

Anyway, since US economy is down the drain (btw: thanks for making internet shopping much more fun), I think that if I were indeed a US Citizen I would vote for Ron Paul. Seems like its the only human you have :-)

Well, the Barrack Obama ft. Will.I.Am (blackeyedpeas) (and: will-i-am.blackeyedpeas.com).
Ohh and then it looks nice!

Low res here:

Whole video (larger size) @ dipdive.com/

Often when making a purchase or an order (be it a pizza, a camera, furniture or books) tracking is essential. Its like waiting on the bus. Although the bus will not arrive faster just because you know when it will arrive, it still feels nice to know.

For instance amazon offers book tracking but its very high level: Was the order shipped or not?

Leave it to the Americans (in the fast food industry) to figure out what kind of tracking you really want, when say ordering a pizza. Behold the Domino’s Pizza tracker:

Basically it takes you through five steps:

1. Order placed
2. Prep
3. Bake
4. Box
5. Delivery

The tracker is @ http://www.dominos.com/home/tracker/pizzatracker.jsp but you cant take it for a spin without an order.

They need to combine the “delivery” with location like this (below another domino app):

That way I can even see how close they are.

This is an intense value add. It doesen’t really have too much to do with the pizza itself. The same could be applied to say sushi :-)

Google has a new collective intelligence approach to image tagging. @ images.google.com/imagelabeler/ they offer a sort of a game.

The idea is that they pair you with another person online. Then you and another person try to type different associations in regards to a certain photo shown.

Its a game and points are awarded. After a two minute period you are told whether or not you had any matches with the other person.

Overall this might be a very very clever way to improve google image search. Actually its fun to do a few pictures. When you get a hit points are awarded and you see a green notification.

Come on Give it a try: images.google.com/imagelabeler/

Thanks for your contribution. It will help us improve the relevance of image search results so that you and other Google users can quickly and easily find the results you’re looking for. To find out more about the images that you labeled and the sites they came from, click on any of the images below.

This is a must read and truly a scholastic example of Internet culture. robotmantheblog.com/

Yes, its about the fabric of the internet.

Giger made the “Aliens” in the movie “Aliens”.

But in the eighties he also made some Pioneer adds for the Japanese market.

Don’t ask me why…