Cadbury has been known for their unusual ad campaigns like the Cadbury Gorilla ad from late 2007, but I have to say that their new ad campaign has stepped it up.

I’d post a video of it here, but I can’t find it hosted anywhere that has embeds so you’ll have to check it out on The Sun’s article page to watch it.

article:  Cadbury’s ad raises eyebrows

According to The Sun, it’s “one of the weirdest adverts ever to appear on telly”.

It’s from the same production company as the Gorilla ad, Glass and a Half Full Productions.

Update

The video has finally been posted… enjoy!

It’s the Star Wars trilogy told by someone who hasn’t actually seen the movies.  

“The planet’s really bad now because of the Dark Side. And there’s this new bad guy in town… and he’s Darth Vader!”

Originally found it here: www.fishrockit.com and Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn’t seen it)

Playing around with anagram generator, Sternest Meanings, I plugged some of today’s headlines.

I’ll let you read into any new hidden meanings…

headline: Congress to attach strings to bailout money
anagram: Strongish cottages contrast. Emotional buy.

headline: Panel questions Clinton on foundation donations
anagram: Inconsequent, pliant loons. Not if an odious and not.

headline: Chrysler reportedly considers selling assets
anagram: Trendy scorcher or pridelessly. Stingless ales.

headline: French minorities push for equality post-Obama
anagram: Punish shiftier conformer. I’m a stab to opaquely.

headline: Citigroup and morgan stanley merge brokerage units
anagram: Amputate adoringly scorning. Brute geek or smearing.

headline: EU Nations may sue Russia, Ukraine over gas
anagram: I’m an usurious Yankee urinates as. Grave so.

Attempting to read an article on The Motley Fool this morning I mistyped the URL and was pleasantly surprised by their 404 error page:

That’s “404: File not found” for the technically inclined. For the not-so-technically inclined, that means that the link you clicked, or the URL you typed into your browser, didn’t work for some reason. Here are some possible reasons why:

1. We have a “bad” link floating out there and you were unlucky enough to click it.
2. You may have typed the page address incorrectly.
3. This web server is going nutty.

Just read a post on 23/6 that brought up some good points about the Secret Service and the Iraqi shoe throwing incident:

Questions That I Have for the Secret Service – Jon Friedman

1. Shouldn’t you have jumped in front of that shoe?
2. Shouldn’t you have jumped in front of that second shoe?
   more…

Here’s YouTube’s blog post, Video Annotations Now Display On Embeds and some samples:

]]> http://www.usingutensils.com/design/let-the-embedding-begin/feed/ 0 http://www.usingutensils.com/the-interweb/5-seconds-with-stan-smith/ http://www.usingutensils.com/the-interweb/5-seconds-with-stan-smith/#comments Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:17:59 +0000 jasson http://www.usingutensils.com/?p=267 It’s an old episode but this is still one of my favorite lines from American Dad:

During a segment of the show about the famine of the Fremont Native Americans in Utah during the 1300s an ad overlay for Hungry Man suddenly came up and declared: “Hungry Man: It’s good to be full”

I wasn’t fast enough to take a screenshot, so you’ll have to take my word for it.

This has been mentioned in a number of blogs so I’ll keep it short…

Jake Loniak a student at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena designed an electric, vertically parking “motorcycle”.

It looks amazing and completely insane all at the same time. 

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Other Blog Posts:

• Deus Ex Machina – The Wearable Motorcycle
• Innovation: Art Center Pasadena