The Alphabet Of Horror

Alphabet of horror by Jared von Hindman

For more cute and scary stuff visit who killed bambi?

For just merely cute, and a kick up the backside of website designers all over the world, look at this.

Permanent Errors

A tattoo artist in Chicago is being sued for misspelling a customer's requested tat "Chi-Town" as "Chi-Tonw."

This cracks me up because graphic designers are typically very poor spellers. This is either a hemispheric brain thing or just the product of their intense training to look at text as a compositional and graphic element rather than reading it. As an editor I have had designers produce typographically-driven graphics which completely fall apart when a key misspelling is corrected.

The tattoo has been fixed as well as possible, but the lawsuit is still going forward. Meanwhile, fellow tattoo artists are signing up to let the offender replicate the misspelled tattoo on their own skin to show their support. Can't say I've heard of anything like that happening in the design community...

OurTVAd Sells Single Frames For 8.5-Minute Advertisement

You too can have your logo on TV for four one-hundredths of a second or less for only $39.

The individual behind this project is trying to sell individual frames for an eight-and-a-half-minute ad. Hurry, only around 13,000 frames remain.

If you like this idea, I would be interested in selling you advertising space on my left pinky toenail for a mere $38, and will wear sandals all day Saturday to display it. Just as many people will see your ad, they will be just as impressed, and you will save a dollar.

I predict abject failure for this project, but such a statement presupposes that Mr. Augusto actually believes it will work. Perhaps he is simply doing what he can to draw attention to his other project, a half-baked predictions market.

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Fake Infographics: When Reporters Shoot Their Mouths Off

The Onion has a great infographic today accompanying a story about a Secret Service agent "taking a question" for President Bush. The graphic diagrams the scene and actions. I'm using a detail here because I hate getting sued. View the full image here or read the story.

Waggles In Wonderland

Many more at the link.

Fun With Google Ads

In case you've forgotten what yours was...

Elusive 'Autumn'

Nick Tosches has a brilliant piece in Vanity Fair about a Microsoft Windows desktop background image:

I sit on the couch and stare at that rustic path and those big old maple trees. By now I know the name of this particular wallpaper or background or whatever it is: Autumn. Moving to the desk and gazing more closely, I see a vague, dark, summoning something at the end of the path. A cabin? A covered bridge? A barn? I want to be there, for real, on that path, under those maples, moving slowly toward that dark, summoning something. [Via|Link]

Head To Head

Seen this morning on Yahoo News. If only they were related:

A New Tense

Troy Patterson on Ultimate Fighting in today's Slate:

In a clip, Shamrock, a veteran known as "the most dangerous man in the world," expressed his belief that Ortiz is a punk. Meanwhile, Ortiz, a punk, forwarded the notion that Shamrock is over the hill. Cut back to Shamrock: "Tito Ortiz is going to find out who Ken Shamrock is, was, and is now." The "is now" in that sentence wasn't really a redundancy. Shamrock was employing a new tense—the ultimate tense—to describe how he was about to be bringing it, how it was about to have been brung.

Microsoft Redesigns the iPod Product Package

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Update: And from Boing Boing:

The video of the redesigned iPod packaging first appeared last year. Later it was confirmed by Microsoft spokesman Tom Pilla that their own packaging team created it.

"Microsoft spokesman Tom Pilla on Tuesday confirmed with iPod Observer that his company initiated the creation of the iPod packaging parody video that was first reported last month. "It was an internal-only video clip commissioned by our packaging [team] to humorously highlight the challenges we have faced RE: packaging and to educate marketers here about the pitfalls of packaging/branding," he said via e-mail."

Psychedelish by Matt Hammill

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Top Ten Worst Comic Book Superheroes

An amazing assortment of terrible superhero ideas from Pop Culture Addict. If you are into comics history you may have heard of some of these creations. If not, you may spit coffee when you see these. A couple of personal favorites:

Matter Eater Lad

The Superpets

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Star Wars In the Silent Era

Armor for Cats and Mice

"Samurat," by Jeff de Boer

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