the Jejune Institute

The Jejune Institute site has all the hall-marks of an ARG, the institute is a pastiche on 70’s design and science with all sorts of odd (Hanso Foundation-like) refrences to happiness and ‘social engineering’.
After a bit of digging it turns out this is actually an art project created by a collective of artists based in San Fransisco, called Oaklandish.
The ‘Institute’ invites people to visit their practice in person for an ‘initiation’ and it turns out you can and people have done this, which essentially takes you around San Fransisco and you explore the city for street art and clues. The detailed post on this is all here.

This has to be one of very few non marketing-initiated ARG’s and fair play to ‘em, will be interesting to see what happens with this.

found by Kylie.

Little (Expensive) Big Planet

Oh dear, (literally) every copy of PlayStation 3’s Little Big Planet will need to be recalled and re-printed.

Quite interesting though that an entire release has been recalled due to a single forum post.
As a client you can look at this two ways, great example of harnessing the power of peer to peer to anticipate issues further down the line or simply an (expensive) annoyance that may not have been spotted/highlighted in days of old 1.0.

eh!?

Maybe im missing something here but - this is quite possibly the most useless ‘web experience’ ive ever encountered?

What is the point of this? Its just a poor rip-off of Nike Chain which was produced brilliantly and was enjoyable to watch and get involved with – this however is not.

I really, really like the stuff FON and BT are doing in a greater sense - in fact i think its an awesome initiative and I really hope it takes off.

Diesel SFW porn

Brilliant new viral from the whacky lot over at Diesel.
Absolutely love the dodgy cartoon sound effects throughout the film!!
Also, love the fact that it doesn’t try and be clever or witty in any way, just simple, juvenile stupidity at its best.

the Brits are here

See more Little Britain videos at Funny or Die UK

Excellent to see that we now have our own UK version of Funny or Die and what better two funny people to launch it than Lucas and Walliams.
Ive always really liked the US site but felt that it was pretty much the Will Ferrell Show…online. It didn’t seem like they showcased any talent or other comics (other than s’lebs).
But by the sounds of it the UK version will make a bit more an effort on this front with Hat Trick being involved exclusively from the start.

Awesome stuff

its the Shite!

No need to pick up your free-sheet on way home now you have London Shite.

Excellent stuff.

F*CK OFF!!!!!

if i have to sit through another price comparison website ad, i will gouge my eyes out with a rusty nail.

and why do they all seem to follow the same cheap and nasty theme of placing real people in animated worlds, whether that be physically standing in a computer screen, standing in virtual space with rows upon rows of cars or living in a world of cardboard illustrations?

and why is GoCompare's "special five star rating" any more "special" than all the other fucking rating systems out there?!