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The above video is Jeff Tweedy in an attempt to understand why people go to a concerts and then just talk to their mates instead of listening and taking part in the experience.

I think most of us have experienced it.
Jeff put’s it really well.

It’s really really cool, if you just, if everybody was really quiet for just one second. You feel yourself being in a room full of people. With all their hearts beating. And all of their thoughts and feelings and you’re part of it. You’re not just you. You’re part of a group of people. In a really beautiful way. It’s a really wonderful thing to be part of. But you have to pay attention to it.

It’s not just me. I’m not just being some pissy artist. It’s what you do when you go to a concert. You’re being a part of it.

You don’t set yourself apart from everybody.
You’re part of something.
It’s wonderful.
It’s joyous.

Via Joakim Jansson’s last.fm journal

They way I read it, Google is acually not buying YouTube, Google is buying the people who are visiting and using YouTube. Google is buying the addspace for $1.65bn (£883m) in shares.

The two companies will continue to operate independently.

and

It [YouTube] has 100 million videos viewed every day and an estimated 72 million individual visitors each month.

from news.bbc

If you ask me, it’s a shame they becomes one.

An old class mate, Lars Johannessen, send out this link to the school network spam mailing list.

It made me laugh.

It also reminded me about ignorant beautiful blonds from scandinavia and that we, as interactive designers, should never forget that not everyone knows what a browser, back button, RSS, screen, fold etc and so on, actually means/is.

• Crazy Egg
  visualize your visitors
• YouTube - who want to be a millionnaire
  “Dad I don’t really need you help…”
• Gregory Durell Graphic Design 2004-06
  Some brilliant work in here.
• Vargas Organisation, London
  Spaghetti.
• Apple .Mac webmail
  The new webmail for .Mac looks… like Mail.app
• A List Apart: Articles: 12 Lessons for Those Afraid of CSS and Standards
  Lesson No. 4 (with thanks to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry): Perfection is not when there’s nothing to add, but when there’s nothing to take away
• Trend Regenmode - PHOTOLOUNGE
  Fashion done the german way. More goodies here
• Get your Helvetica wall here
• Disco - Blog Archive - Amsterdam Disco, Take 2
  Burn a cd a…. simpler way?
• Digital Web Magazine - Objectifying JavaScript
• Ett liv i exil: Chris
• Guardian Unlimited Business | Hackney wins logo case against Nike
• Royal Mail starts selling stamps via Internet
• hackney on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
  “This is Hackney repackaged, branded and sold back to its original inhabitants at a vastly inflated price they can’t afford.”
• Attack of the 20-inch Notebook
  Making the rounds in Manhattan with Dell’s 18-pound monster.
• Infinite Loop: Apple to “upgrade” retail outlets
• Occam’s razor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  In short, when given two equally valid explanations for a phenomenon, one should embrace the less complicated formulation.
• Under marknaden pÃ¥gick även en tävling om den bästa lingon receptet som Byaliv arrangera tillsammans med universitet i UmeÃ¥

• YouTube - Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on Bush 9/11/06
  8:45 min long and very wordy, but contain some very interesting bits.
• Philanthropy Google’s Way: Not the Usual - New York Times
  The ambitious founders of Google, the popular search engine company, have set up a philanthropy, giving it seed money of about $1 billion and a mandate to tackle poverty, disease and global warming.
• Easy CSS hacks for IE7 - Nano See, Nano Do
  *+html
• Vertical Centering in CSS
• Flashbeer
  This did make me laugh out loud.
• A List Apart: Articles: Text-Resize Detection
• Beginner’s guide from a seasoned CSS designer
  “However, for the remainder of you — those hoping to refine web design and development skills — I hope this comes as bookmark-worthy material.”
• Computer hood
  2nd image down.
• BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Sudan man forced to ‘marry’ goat
  “A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his “wife”, after he was caught having sex with the animal.”

• BBC NEWS | World | Americas | ‘War on terror’ loses clear direction
  “…many governments and peoples do not see Iraq as part of the answer to terror. They see it as part of the cause. They therefore want to distance themselves from American policy.”
• “If you’re feeling charitable, you can call it Pop Art. If you’re not, you can call it repeatedly reaching for High Culture and falling woefully short.”
  This quote is taken from a review on one of Madonna’s Confession shows at Wembly in London. The review is very hard on Madonna. But on the same time it’s a very very fun read, and I would not questioned wether Mr Steve Price is right or wrong.
• SVERIGES SEXIGA GEOGRAFI
  For my Swedish audience.
• Pornography drives the development of technology.
• Cambrian House > How it Works > Development Community
  “We all have great ideas. What we lack is a vehicle to realize them. That’s why we created Cambrian House. “We can help you build your Web-based and desktop product ideas that can be sold over the Internet.”
• YouTube - jesus camp trailer
  ‘Holy shit’ isn’t the right word, but the first word that comes to mind.
• Widon’t // ShaunInman.com
  One of those things I have had planed to do, but then someone go’s of and does it before me. Thanks. Simple. Brilliant. And… it’s probably a better solution then what I would have created.
• Subtraction: Meetings in Progress, Lots of Them
• pictures of the family of the person who stole my cell phone posted to my flickr account
  Interesting post, but also the follow up link on the attention it got, practicalist: glare of attention is extremely interesting.
• September 11th 2001 | America’s longest war | Economist.com
  “A nation once joined together in shock and vulnerability is now riven by failure and recrimination”
• Star Wars: The Official Site
  What have changed.
• BBC NEWS | Special Reports | 629 | 629 | How 9/11 changed America: In statistics
  It coming up to 5 years.
• The Discovery Channel Killed Steve Irwin - The Jason Calacanis Weblog
  Another link from airbagindustries ‘Longboard’
• Dubai 1990 vs 2003
  Found this, and many other great links that i post, at airbagindustries ‘Longboard’ rss (link feed).
• Accessible JavaScript Newsticker by Bartelme
  Does what it says on the box.
• cabel.name: Multiplayer Game Of The Year
• YouTube - George Galloway Savages SKY NEWS!
  Very very refreshing.
• starbucks makes podcasts
• Guitar Tapping » SpikedHumor.com
  Truly amazing! and it makes me wonder if he ever learned to play the guitar the… right way.
• BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | ‘Crocodile Hunter’ Irwin killed
  ‘Crocodile Hunter’ Irwin killed.
• Ravers seize £10 million house | News | This is London
  “Hundreds of screaming teenagers are turning up in droves and heavy metal and rock music has been blasting out day and night.” Wow. Didn’t know that the rave scene liked heavy metal and rock!
• web2logo.com
  Feels like I have posted this already. But just in case I haven’t, and you are looking for a lot of web 2 trendy logos - your welcome.
• CTV.ca | ‘Unfortunate’ photo wasn’t tampered with: IKEA
  An IKEA catalogue with a photo that appears to show a dog with a larger-than-normal, human-like appendage has not been tampered with, according to the furniture giant’s Canadian office. The dog, which appears to be a greyhound or whippet, seems to have one.
• glumbert.com | media | Say this tongue twister, or else…
  For willow and her tongue twisters.
• The Identity Archives Project | Keyword-searchable database of logos and brand identity designs
  “The Identity Archives Project website is a free resource, built on the contributions of graphic designers and brand identity specialists.”
• Local Weather - CBS News
  “George Bush spends 58% of US Budget on Whiskey and some Bling for his hommies” Nice little hack ;)
• Optimus keyboard
  Very old. Still very nice.
• TOPSHOP: VIDEO PODCAST
• BBC NEWS | Business | Google chief joins Apple’s board
  Google chief executive officer Eric Schmidt has been appointed as a board member of Apple Computers.
• Teen data on Myspace compromised | The Register
  “Many myspacers use CSS [cascading style sheets] to hide their comments, friends list and blog links,” wrote AtariBoy. “These elements are not deleted tho [sic] and are still available publicly to anyone. You can view them by one of two methods below.”
• Musicast
• Pageviews are Obsolete
  “Remember when web site traffic was talked about in terms of “hits”?”

• Compare Google’s Web Search to Google Accessible Search
  On this site you can compare the two - the normal search result, and the accessibility search.
• Google Accessible Search
  Google have released a separate search engine that targets sites for their accessibility, ranking them higher.
• CNN/Money: Global gas prices
  I searched to find out.
• Gas prices move past $3 to all-time high - Yahoo! News
  Since I had no idea how much a gallon acually is…
• Group decries Bush’s law interpretations - Yahoo! News
  “This report raises serious concerns crucial to the survival of our democracy”
• Civil rights hiring shifted in Bush era - The Boston Globe
• YouTube - Creature comforts

• Jeff Bezos Invests in 37Signals
  found on plasticbag.org
• Blogorimba - Welcome
  If you are looking for a stupid blog t-shirt or hood, this is the place for you.
• Hatebeak and Longmont Potion Castle at REPTILIAN RECORDS
  A metal band with a parrot for singer…
• Chad Vader goes viral | The Daily Page
• YouTube - Chad Vader - Day Shift Manager (episode 1)

One of the best 2:20 minutes you can spend in front of your computer today.

Truth of Argentina
The video is also available on YouTube

a quick update on this post
Just found some interesting facts on an article titled: Did Argentina’s ‘Truth’ spot deserve more?

From the article

Cannes delegates found the ad to be powerful and cleverly written, yet the question lingered: Wouldn’t it have run originally in Spanish, not English? Apparently troubled by the notion that it might have been altered for the show, the judges awarded the ad and its agency, Savaglio\TBWA in Buenos Aires, a silver. “That’s probably why it didn’t win a gold,� noted one juror. For it to remain in the show at all, the juror said, “we had to assume it was the same as we had seen it.�

From the comments on the article

Hi, I’m from Brazil. This idea of two opposite texts in a single one, depending the direction you read is already common in Brazil and spanish speaking countries. I’ve received many spams with different texts (some about politics, some about love) using the same idea. It was nice to use it in advertising, but the idea is far from original.
/Posted by: Daniel | Jun 28, 2006 2:37:05 PM

Far from original and far from the first time this exact ad has seen the light of Cannes….it also won a CyberLion two years ago as a banner (minus the voiceover). I was on that jury and remember it well.
/Posted by: Sean Ganann | Jun 29, 2006 8:27:31 AM

The real thing about this ad is that actually it was “new� 4 years ago… The first version was a full-page print ad, the second version was this kindda “long-time-in-front-of-a-tiny� banner (a medal @ 2004 Cyber Lions), and now, the last but not least version is this TV Spot… So, my suggestion for the title of the post is “The silver, that should have been gold in Press 4 years ago and got a silver in Cyber 2 years ago!�
/Posted by: Dude from Argentina | Jul 7, 2006 11:00:08 AM

It is still “One of the best 2:20 minutes you can spend in front of your computer today”. I just found it extremely interesting that it won a interactive price two years ago… now - where is the good creative? Interactive? Press? Tv?… as i said - interesting.