Flaming Gorillas

scary/funny
July 2
Google to Start Distributing Content via AdSense - NYTimes.com

designinginnovations:

“Google will syndicate the program using its AdSense advertising system to thousands of Web sites that are predetermined to be gathering spots for Mr. MacFarlane’s target audience, typically young men. Instead of placing a static ad on a Web page, Google will place a “Cavalcade” video clip.

Advertising will be incorporated into the clips in varying ways. In some cases, there will be “preroll” ads, which ask viewers to sit through a TV-style commercial before getting to the video. Some advertisers may opt for a banner to be placed at the bottom of the video clip or a simple “brought to you by” note at the beginning.”
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designinginnovations: thefanboys.com redesigns the XBox Live interface to reclaim screen real estate for the player. Major change is to knock down screen real estate for advertising from 22% to 8%. Thing about this is that the gamer is Microsoft’s product and the real customers are the advertisers. Under a scheme like this, I wonder what sort of price increase you’d see in XBox Live monthly subscription fees to cover the assumed loss in advertising revenue.

designinginnovations:

thefanboys.com redesigns the XBox Live interface to reclaim screen real estate for the player. Major change is to knock down screen real estate for advertising from 22% to 8%. Thing about this is that the gamer is Microsoft’s product and the real customers are the advertisers. Under a scheme like this, I wonder what sort of price increase you’d see in XBox Live monthly subscription fees to cover the assumed loss in advertising revenue.
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'Arrested Development' movie is on, says Jeffrey Tambor

missmodular:

bmroberts:

This is excellent news to wake up to.
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bored? stoned? insomniac? Upl8.tv One step removed from YouTube, it flips through YouTube for you…the ultimate in laziness: “UPL8.tv is mindless channel flipping moved online. We currently offer 1 curated channel of random internet nonsense browsable with just the space bar. For extra fun, try adding your own word after the slash in the address bar ;)”

bored? stoned? insomniac? Upl8.tv

One step removed from YouTube, it flips through YouTube for you…the ultimate in laziness: “UPL8.tv is mindless channel flipping moved online. We currently offer 1 curated channel of random internet nonsense browsable with just the space bar. For extra fun, try adding your own word after the slash in the address bar ;)”

July 1
“ Virginia, however, is the one Southern state that Mr. Obama has a reasonable chance of winning. And it’s precisely because the home of Robert E. Lee, as NBC News’s political director, Chuck Todd, has suggested, is seceding from the Confederacy.

NYTimes: The South Will Fall Again

Too late—I’ll always be a Southerner.
June 25
“ The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What’s that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you’re too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating…and you finish off as an orgasm. George Carlin (via missmodular)
June 24
Tulsa - Shaker
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A paper trail might be the least trackable method of communication these days.

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Ser-vice clothing and housewares.  Not bad, Richmond, VA. 
Ser-vice clothing and housewares.  Not bad, Richmond, VA. 
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29 countries ventured. 1000 photos gained. Some nice shots of India.

29 countries ventured. 1000 photos gained.

Some nice shots of India.