B2B Marketing With Viral Videos: Watch It Shred

SSI Shredding Systems sells really big industrial shredders that destroy everything from pianos to cars.  The company has been putting out videos of its products in action, very much in the style of Will It Blend.  Actually, the first Watch It Shred video on YouTube is dated September 25, 2006, a month before the earliest Blendtec's piece.  Presumably, different audiences, too.

How cool would it be if they had a video of an SSI machine shredding a Blendtec blender?

Free Strips of Paper

There's something depressingly philosophical about this image, perhaps a commentary about the ultimate product of all our work.
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You're All A Bunch of Users

Wallpaper, t-shirt, via.

If Shakespeare Had Twittered

Here's what the first nine lines of the "To be or not to be" passage would've looked like had Shakespeare crammed them into the 140 characters of Twitter. Love the "2 die, 2 zzz" part.   

"2 be, or nt 2 be: tht's the q:
Whether 'tis nblr in the mnd 2 sffr
The slngs & rrws of trgs frtn,
Or 2 tk rms gnst a sea of trbls,
by ppsng end thm? 2 die: 2 zzz;
No mr &  by a zzz 2 say we end
The hrt-ache & the thsnd ntrl shcks
That flsh is hr 2, 'tis a cnsmmtn
Devoutly 2 be wsh'd. 2 die, 2 zzz;"

If you liked this, you'll also like "From Hamnet to Mad Men".

The Bro... Wait For It... Code!

OMG! The Bro Code by Barney Stinson!
-- via Scheuguy bro

Obama's Face on Coffee Foam

To celebrate the inauguration, Krispy Kreme in Britain was giving away Barack Americano, a coffee with Obama's visage smiling from the foam (how? stencils, that's how).


Watch the video by Telegraph below.



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Morton Salt Girl Tattoo

Why? (Also, a bloodier "during" picture, and icon's history.) And it's not like it's an isolated incident -- here's more, more, and more. Or, say, Campbell Soup? Also, assorted food tats on Flickr and here, and Rachel Ray, too. Wtf?

Update [Feb 11 '09] - One of the Morton Salt tat owners speaks up (in comments to this post):

"i got the morton's salt girl tattoo because it was used by one of my favorite bands, jawbreaker, with the tagline "when it pains, it roars." i wouldn't normally get a brand logo tattoo."

A few days ago: "Invisible" Black Light Tattoos

Animated Favicon in Autocomplete Menu

Caught my attention today -- an animated favicon in Firefox's autocomplete menu. This one was a square with changing colors, but you can have one with a scrolling text, for example.

Obama's Look-alike Stars in Heartburn Commercial

Ilham Anas, Barack Obama's Indonesian look-alike, stars in a TV commercial for Domperidone (wiki), a drug that is used to treat nausea, vomiting, heartburn and excessive wind.
-- Story by Reuters, via AgencySpy
 


Look-alike we can believe in: Ilham Anas in a photo by AP/Fox

Who Is Macon Phillips?

"Welcome to the new WhiteHouse.gov. I'm Macon Phillips, the Director of New Media for the White House and one of the people who will be contributing to the blog." A new feeling -- to have someone at the White House one "friend" button away at LinkedIn, Facebook, or Twitter. Also, looks like you can't measure real influence by the number of Twitter followers or other virtual friends after all. As Steve Jobs says, real artists ship.

On a tangentially related topic, love Trident's timely John Biden's Teeth.