Friday Links: Happy 4th of July Weekend edition

• Brace yourself for a whole new slew of Mad Men Yourself avatars.
• T-shirt of the week: Home Sweet Taun Taun.
• Scampd exists to celebrate the rich, diverse and criminally underused art of illustration in advertising and design.
• Top 100 Star Wars Figures.
• The Creative Brief: A Research Project.
• Living the brand.
• Amazon bought Woot, you should read the e-mail. It’s funny.
• Translation from Apple’s unique dialect of PR-Speak to English of the ‘Letter From Apple Regarding iPhone 4’ (warning, herein lies swearing so if you’re offended by the F-dash-dash-dash word, don’t click that link).
• Most competing products have the same flavor and you pick your favorites based on other cues – like the packaging.
• Building code violations for the Love Shack.
• Wonder Woman got a makeover, it’s not so good.
• 5 Epic Apple Fails. We had a QuickTake camera at the student newspaper I worked at in college. The camera was awful, but it came with a leather cozy and we called it Spanky. We only used Spanky to take quicky mugshots.