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I did a quick search for “midget gems” on Google earlier. Don’t ask – it was honestly school-related. No, seriously. It was. Anyway, I spotted the following advert on the sidebar. I was too scared to click on the link in case it took me to some dark, human-trafficking corner of eBay of which I wasn’t previously aware.
The single most expensive advertising blocks in TV in the US are during the Superbowl. Google bought one and broadcast the one featured below. All of the ads they made are available to have a look at on YouTube (they’re called “searchstories“), but I really think they picked by far the best.
It’s a simple, beautiful little story. But half the skill is not in telling a tale, it’s in how you do it. Look at Avatar which, I maintain, has a very weak story but is told in a rather amazing fashion. Or indeed, at the silent video I posted a few weeks ago. This is simple, but really clever.
Enjoy Parisian Love…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnsSUqgkDwU
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There are three, that I know of, things to commemorate today – June 6th. Well, four if you include the fact that 6am on the 6th of the 6th is a good time to draw pentagrams and balance up how much you reckon your soul could be worth on the black (and I mean black) market.
First up, Tetris is 25 years old today. This scares me as I thought it was younger, partly as it means I’m even older than I thought I was. Google are in on the celebrations as they’ve given their title page a little facelift for the occasion.
Secondly, the first YMCA was opened in London this day in 1844. Not only a cheap (well, they were) place to stay and work out with oily young men, if it weren’t for these establishments then we’d be missing out on one of the greatest party dances of all time. Plus one of the funniest segments in Wayne’s World 2.
Finally, it’s the 65th anniversary of the beginning of the D-Day landings, back in 1944. Were it not for this one then you could have waved goodbye to the YMCA. Wayne’s World would never have been filmed. Forget Tetris – the Russians making computer games? As if.
There’s no doubt we could live without them. Who plays Tetris much these days? And when was the last time anyone who reads this stayed in a YMCA? But think how different the world would be had it not been for the successful campaign begun by Operation Overlord on the beaches of Normandy 65 years ago.
This is, without a doubt, one of the most important days in recent human history and it should be remembered as such. More important than Armistice Day – this is the day that most of the men fighting for your freedom and mine laid down their lives. The surrender of Germany would, quite probably, not have occured had it not been for this huge invasion.
Certainly a day to remember. Most certainly not a day to ever forget.
Just random, no reason for asking… what was the last search query you did on Google or wherever? Mine was:
ubuntu vpn server ports
Which pretty much sums me up. Good job I hadn’t just been on Google Image Search or I’d have had to confess about looking for cumshots.
Google have proved they have a sense of humour by releasing a funky add-on to the Labs in Gmail. All it does is confirm that you really, really want to send that email you just typed. Which sounds silly, but how often have you bunged off a random SMS while drunk that you kind of wish the girl in accounts hadn’t received? Or gotten horny (while drunk) and emailed an ex to suggest that perhaps one more try together might actually be a good idea?
Mail Goggles aims to stop that. Whenever you send a message (based on a schedule, defaulting to late night at weekends) it asks you to solve a couple of maths problems before it’ll actually release the mail.
Completely silly. But I like it. I really wish I’d had something like that on my mobile way back in the past.
