Posted about this one before, still not sure how well it will take off until it gets to a table top type device but HP is try and got to give them credit for trying.

I have personally seen the MSFT (Surface) technology and the touch wall tech (in early phases) from Accenture so there is no doubt that it will become mainstream before too long.

HP Touchsmart PC | Cool Commercial

Pretty funny opening, better than I expected.

Not sure if it will help Senator McCain with his campaign but he is trying everything he can.

Late post here since SNL is on again tonight but wanted to get this one posted.

Jon Hamm, from Mad Men, talking about how ad execs promote products. Jon Hamm’s Jon Hamm.

The bathroom ham dispenser is a great idea.

Here is the previous post: SNL | Don Draper’s Guide To Picking Up Women

Forget fresh meat, bring on fresh fruit, fresh vegetables and honey.

All joking aside, this is a really cool story and worth taking note of. 

LITTLEROCK, Wash. – Of all the things convicted murderer Robert Knowles has been called during his 13 years behind bars, recycler hasn’t been one of them.

But there he was one morning, pitchfork in hand, composting food scraps from the main chow line and coffee grounds from prison headquarters — doing his part to “green” the prison.

“It’s nice to be out in the elements,” said Knowles, 42, stirring dark, rich compost that will amend the soil at the small farm where he and fellow inmates of the Cedar Creek Corrections Center grew 8,000 pounds of organic vegetables this year.

Inmates of the minimum-security facility, 25 miles from Olympia, the state capital, raise bees, grow organic tomatoes and lettuce, compost 100 percent of food waste and even recycle shoe scraps that are made into playground turf.

“It reduces cost, reduces our damaging impact on the environment, engages inmates as students,” said Eldon Vail, secretary of the Washington Department of Corrections, which oversees 15 prisons and 18,000 offenders. “It’s good security.”

Here is the full article: Green prisons farm, recycle to save energy, money

I have stayed at a Holiday Inn and it didn’t make my rap any better, truth be told, I have no rap, none at all.

The commercial is funny enough it just seems like the concept might have been thought up in the early 90’s and they just got around to producing it.

I could be wrong but when I see 30 something white guys in suits rapping, I have the awful visions of Robin Williams and Steve Martin trying to be funny doing the “yo, yo, yo…” routine.

Destroyed In Seconds is a new show on the Discovery Channel that we have posted a few videos from. They are listed below.

This clip is of the jet going down is crazy but the pilot ejecting horizontally and that it might have all be because of a bird flying into the engine is bizarre.  Dead bird and plane but the pilot survived.

Discovery Channel | Disastrous Air Balloon
Discovery Channel | Disastrous Car Jump

I’m not an avid watcher of Mad Men but what I have seen is good.

I have been in the ad business or around it for a while so some of what goes on, on the show, sounds somewhat familiar.

Some of the stories I have been told could be scenes from the show.

So Don Draper (Jon Hamm - from Missouri) was the guest host on SNL last weekend and it had some good moments. This is one of them.

Besides looking cool, this is a collective instrument that allows more than one user to control it. It uses projections and image identification to control and display the interface. The only problem is that I have not seen a demo that produces a song by common standards, really off beat, and could use some sort of looping display and control. Is there a demo with the characteristics I speak of out there somewhere?

I am not a Break Dancer, but this guy is nuckin futz!!!

Definitely the craziest moves I have ever seen, and so fluid it is disgusting.

check out the “no-footed” hand stand @ about 1:45min

prolly an old video but ya

I do like the Seattle Metropolitan Magazine, they usually have great articles on architecture and dining. I’m not sure I agree with MC on this one. MSFT does seem to follow on some things but if you look at what LiveLabs is doing, Windows Live Writer (this is one of the most useful tools they give away), Photosynth and Seadragon then you might look at them a little different. I think that MSFT should be focused on the innovative stuff they are doing.

If MSFT spent some ad dollars on the things I have listed, which would be cool to work on (speaking as a creative director for a second) they could show how innovative and forward thinking they really are - in some ways anyway.