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It's Thursday April the 29 around 8:23PM and

Meat: The Final Frontier

Can I just say that this combination of two of my favorite things is awesom: Star Trek and Meats. (Via Gizmodo)

Speaking of meat: there is actually a Bacon Camp coming up in SF. Might be the only "camp" i'd consider.

It's Thursday April the 29 around 3:52PM and

Best TV Commercial ever?

Famed Documentarian Errol Morris seems to think so. How can you argue with that? At the very least, they are completely awesome. Pure genius. (via Kottke)

It's Tuesday April the 27 around 6:38AM and

Consolation Prize For Guy Who Lost New iPhone

Luftthansa is having some fun with the Apple employee, Gray Powell, who must be now chained up in Steve Jobs' Dexter-like "time out" room. Here's their offer letter to the poor drunk who left his prototype iPhone in a German beer garden for a free business class flight to Munich. Clever. (Via NileGuide)

It's Tuesday April the 27 around 6:31AM and

Hermes Scarf Blowing Window Display

Hermes storefront in Tokyo. Simplicity x smug scarf = wowza.

It's Monday April the 26 around 9:14PM and

Aren't Budget Cuts fun?

Let me get this straight. The Vancouver School Board passes a decree and gives kidholes an extra week at spring break saving tax payers $1.3 million? (Via News 1130)

Technically it's 10 days with 6 extended weekends and 4 extra days at spring break. Apparently it's a one-time thing. This post is brought to you by Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green.

It's Monday April the 26 around 8:56PM and

Meet the new Hope and Change

Hope and Change meet your drab, muted, grey, and worrisome overlords of 2010. Nice to see the new version of Barrack Obama's website has lost the slick hope-felt look of 2008 already. It's Change 2.0. Feel the inspiration.

I for one can't wait to see what Obama Jr. Gregor Robertson does with this new arsenal of hope. (Via Patrick Ruffini)

It's Friday April the 16 around 8:02AM and

iPad can do anything, including run Norway

I think it's interesting that the Prime Minister of Norway, trapped in New York because of another end of times earth disruption can run his entire government using the iPad. As one commenter notes, "So running an entire country only involves YouTube clips and pointless games? Who knew?"(Via Gawker)

Exit question: what are the implications of this for Canadian politics? Does this mean Stephen Harper could get rid of the entire parliament for good now? He could just iPad everything, while playing keyboards, with his dozens of iPad loving cats.

It's Thursday April the 15 around 8:08PM and

Finally, Canuck Fan Tracker

Love the internet. Love that people can take Google Maps and create a simple, easy to use tool that enables you to track down and monitor those Canucks fans around the globe. Now you can hunt them down and spam them. Question can somebody out there build an option to isolate the jersey wearing people? Vancouver was way too jersey today.

It's Wednesday April the 14 around 7:39AM and

Nike: The Empire Strikes Back

Nike has really stepped up an entirely new kind of ad, lets call it "dark side advertising". They take the most loathsome characters they can find, and then taunt the world with them in ads. Effective and evil. Just do it, indeed.

Exhibit A: The Tiger Woods masters ad.
Dark Side Score: 9/10.
A Total creepfest. Use of Tiger's out of context dead father + instant parody worthy = 2.8 million views on YouTube.

Exhibit B: The Sports Illustrated runs Nike's Duke NCAA Championship ad.
Dark Side Score: 8/10.
That is just cruel, if you are a Butler fan. This is like stroking white cat and laughing evil.

(Photo Via DeadSpin)

It's Tuesday April the 13 around 11:25PM and

Coco in Vancouver at last

Photo Credit: KevinLim953

Conan O'Brien rocked the Orpheum tonight even as it smelled of sweat socks of unemployed white people. Needed Frebreeze, big time.

Best of the night:

1. The self gratifying panda. Take that NBC. UPDATE: Reader Kevin scolds my wildly mis-quoted and inaccurate post and corrects me on this. It's the self satisfying panda. My bad.
2. The Andy Richter live commercials for Japadog and The Penthouse - especially it's new tagline, "when you're more creeping than horny."
3. Triumph and his dubbed insults.
4. Just the right amount of Chuck Norris in Walker Texas Ranger clips
5. Just the right amount of Conrad Bain
references.

It was very fun. There could have been way more comedy bits than music. And I was surprised that there was no live interview of someone. I half expected a couch. Curious how much new material they add as they go along. The opening act Reggie Watts was completely insane.

It's Tuesday April the 13 around 4:28PM and

Quote of the day: Valleywag on Twitter's New Ads

"The only questions are whether the ads will attract clicks, and thus profits for Twitter, when the rest of the service's content is so self promotional—and why it took Twitter four goddamned years to come up with such a simple business model. I mean, really." - Ryan Tate, Valleywag.

Par for the course, that this underwhelms me. And yet, somehow they managed to operate a business for four years before figuring this out while they built the utility of the audience.

It's Tuesday April the 13 around 11:29AM and

Luke Needs Answers & Bacon AT-AT's

Love this. Asking inappropriate questions, you are, a Star Wars Google Ad parody from College Humor. And speaking of Star Wars, how about this all-bacon AT-AT? Delicious and destructive. (Thank you George for sending that to me)

It's Monday April the 12 around 9:27PM and

iPad with a side of smokeshow

Admittedly I'm a little a jealous of iPad. I opted to finally replace my MacBook this week instead. But it wasn't until I saw this picture that I really kind of wanted one, bad. Actually, I want this whole image, the cute Asian girl slicing fruits with a glass of wine. I mean, a rack of lamb or a stuffed veal chop or something woulda been better.

But whatever. Oh and that iPad stand is off the hook. (Via Gizmodo)

It's Monday April the 12 around 9:09PM and

The Cruel iTunes Ecosystem

Sometimes iTunes is just plain cruel. It temps you with a click away from downloading. I mean it offers you up something like Ken Burns classic The Civil War, but then feels the need to insult your stupid face by asking $74.99 for it. The hell you say. The hell.

You know, at $39.99 Jobs, I might have been in, if only since it would be rad to have that thing blazing on a plane trip and be all smug that you are watching Ken Burns. But double that, and I'm out. And I have it on DVD already. Smugness achieved.

It's Monday April the 12 around 7:27PM and

Coco On TBS, Damn you Peachtree!

NBC wants to move Conan's Tonight Show back to 12:05. Conan quits NBC. NBC gives Tonight Show back to Jay Leno. TBS gives Conan new show at 11:00. Shaw cable no longer has TBS. Shaw cable has Peachtree TV.

I find the TBS signing to be pretty interesting, aside from the Shaw fail. It might have been an Xbox Show too. Ultimately, and interestingly, it was about ownership, and actually getting on air soon, plus TBS's juicy younger audience which got all the pieces to fall together. Only Conan could sum it up, "In three months I’ve gone from network television to Twitter to performing live in theaters, and now I’m headed to basic cable. My plan is working perfectly.”

On the upside, Conan is here in Vancouver tomorrow for two-nights. So Shaw better get it's crap together by November so we can watch Coco. That's it I'm writing Shaw and Stephen Harper a strongly worded letter.

It's Monday April the 12 around 5:15PM and

Wake Up! He's a Shapeshifter

Hot New Relationship Book Warns Women: 'Wake Up! He's A Shapeshifter' PS: I love that this video was all sponsored by Jack Links Beef Jerky. Amazing + delicious.

It's Sunday April the 11 around 8:48PM and

Finally, A movie about butter...

Let me get this straight. Jennifer Garner and Ashley Greene in a movie about butter, called magically, Butter. Oh my, and Ty Burrell - the dad from Modern Family. And maybe Alicia Silverstone too. Best. Premise. Ever.

Mmmm butter.

It's Sunday April the 11 around 8:34PM and

Lagerfeld on Coca Cola Light

Karl Lagerfeld is kind of bizarrely amazing. GMac is obsessed with him. Obsessed. His latest creation, the new campaign and design for Coca-Cola Light.

And of course it's a box set. Of course it is. This amazing gem will be available at Colette. That turns the smug factor up to 11.

It's Friday April the 9 around 7:35AM and

City Hall Chicken Crap

Can we get someone, anyone, serious in City Hall to deal with grown up issues and not some fantasy issues like chickens?

It's Thursday April the 8 around 10:44AM and

Attack of the pixels

Yep, this cool. Patrick Jean's new short film Pixels.

It's Thursday April the 8 around 8:01AM and

Faces Made for Social Media

And you thought radio was ugly. I never knew that Vancouver's social media twiterati or whatever they're called now had such faces made for radio. Makes sense that hard core twitter or social media people aren't really models, but this is unbelievable.

BC Business profiles the social media innovators of the city in an interactive slide show. The horror. Trust me, go check it out if you want to see that extreme close up of Kris Krug you've been waiting for. As one commenter suggested, "Nice list of some great people but I would only classify a few as real innovators, the rest are all power users mostly."

Where are the social media babes?

And I'm mostly positive that a lot of social media geeks must have been depressed to hear what Malcom Gladwell and his hair told a Vancouver audience yesterday. "I wonder if we have exaggerated the importance and significance of some of these new innovations in social media," Gladwell said. "Social media is not a tool of radical and transformative change. It is, unless we take steps to change it, an instrument of the status quo."

Awkward for them I'm sure. I'm sure there will be some furious twitterings this morning.

PS: I've been over three months clean and sober of posting on Twitter. It's now just a glorified RSS feed of people I like to follow. It feels great. Hows that for innovation?

It's Thursday April the 8 around 7:27AM and

30 Years Since Empire

Nice of Entertainment Weekly to remind us that 30-years have passed since Empire Strikes Back debuted. THIRTY FREAKING YEARS. Three decades. Can you even imagine? A dark time for the rebellion, indeed.

It's Wednesday April the 7 around 12:54PM and

Che, Marx, and Castro in new Renault Ad

Nothing tickles me more than seeing communists exploited to sell cars. Nothing. It's like the best thing ever. I hope Fidel enjoys his socialist old age home with his best revolutionary buds. It's a shame it is for this econo-crapbox of a Renault. (Via Copyranter)

It's Wednesday April the 7 around 7:39AM and

Tiny Car Commercial

I like remote control cars as much as the next guy, but this ad for the Nissan Sentra while it looks cool, completely stumps me. Honestly. Why would anyone want this car?

PS: Where does mini-Vin Diesel go? Derek Zoolander responds: "What is this? A car for ants? How can we be expected to sell cars... if they can't even fit inside the Nissan?" (Via Adrants)

It's Wednesday April the 7 around 7:29AM and

Obama Love Baseball?

I know hockey is still in full force and stuff, but it's like 90 degrees in Washington DC this week and even Obama is faking his interest in America's pastime. The above clip is pretty funny since Obama spends his time avoiding the question of who his favorite players on his favoritist team, The Chicago Whitesox, are. Seriously, he couldn't name Frank Thomas, or Carlton Fisk? No Blackjack McDowell or Robin Ventura? Not even Bo Jackson? Some people are calling it a case of some fake macho. Hilarious.

Meanwhile this play by White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrie is what baseball is all about people.

It's Tuesday April the 6 around 9:32AM and

iPad Shake Anyone?

Managed to try out the iPad yesterday at a Best Buy in Seattle. It was loaded with lame apps - not a good sign. But it was light as hell and looked cool. Thankfully they were out of them by the time I got there. Cause I think I can wait. But the fact that you can blend them into a powder moves it up the list.

It's Monday April the 5 around 9:11PM and

Quote of the day: Secrets to life with Ernest Borgnine

Mr. Ernest Borgnine ladies and gentleman. At 91, the guy is a genius.

It's Thursday April the 1 around 2:18PM and

Quote of the day: Lyndon B. Johnson Orders Some Slacks

Can we just get some dudes like this back into politics? Even how he orders himself some nice slacks sounds incredible. And roomy around the undercarriage, if you know what I mean. (Via Wonkette)