'boards - Screening Room Collection of grade-a advertisements. Make sure you check out Jonathan Glazer's Levi's commercial, anything Nike, the Chris Cunningham ad for Aphex Twin's new record, and of course the Kylie Minogue underwear ad.

hotdogboy.com
strange super short films from a webdesign/filmmaking duo. While watching the 7 or so shorts on their site, I developed a phobia for gerbils, microwaves, and strawberry jelly.

A List Apart: 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web from Daypop great piece on writing for the web.

Plastic: You Can Rest Easy - The Attack Squirrel Is Dead see, we've been telling you they're nothing but rabid vermin. ABC news reported that this squirrel was on a "reign of terror" in which it attacked four people.

The Onion | Police Interruption Hastily Written Into Student Film Funny stuff, though it does hit a little too close to home.

free_culture
from Daypop
Lawrence Lessig's keynote address from OSCON 2002. Chronicles the history of copyright laws, their effect on culture, and the current need for thorough and long-term thinking on the subject.

The Odds of That found w/ NextDraft. This article requires free registration, but is well worth it. A highwayman willie nelson of a piece about coincidence and statistics and conspiracies and miracles and more. The impetus: two elderly twin brothers in Raahe, Finland, setting out separately on their bicycles to do errands. Within the space of two hours, both were hit and killed by separate trucks in two separate accidents on the same stretch of highway.
Warning: do not read this article if you feel the the movie SIGNS, "blew your mind."

O'Reilly Network: Blogging for Dollars: Giving Rise to the Professional Blogger [Aug. 12, 2002] an article from Daypop, of course, about the need and potential for professional blogging...that's a little what I'm trying here. we'll see what goes down.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Why ads on the net don't work
from Daypop Top 40. good piece on the futility of online ads. Banzai! is running its own small textad campaign to support our americana crooner Joe Williams. We're running ads on grass roots community sites like Daypop and Metafilter . It's too early to tell if it's a success, but keep an eye for a full detail of the campaign a month or two.

The Sight and Sound Top Ten Poll 2002
Fascinating list of top movies and top directors chosen by both critics and directors. You can view five decades of the list and see what has aged well, what has fallen, and who's status has risen with time (like Yasujiro Ozu).
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