Tag Archives: Mad Men

Don Draper presents Facebook Timeline

First of all, when you don’t allow embedding of YouTube videos something or someone powerful kills/maims/injures something cute. Glad I got that out of the way, so now you have to surf on over to YouTube and watch this nicely done video that has Don Draper from “Mad Men” presenting Facebook’s new Timeline to a roomful of Ad Execs.

The ‘shut up, Pete’ comment on one of the pictures made me laugh right out loud.

Friday Links: Happy Long Weekend edition

• For when your coworkers force you to listen to “Chimpanzee Riding on a Segway,” Unhearit.
• Heretic Clippy: This script will check on pageload to see if the User is running IE6. If so, Heretic Clippy will appear and offer some browser alternatives.
• What does it mean? Double Rainbow Guy stars in Microsoft ad.
• Business cards of fictional businesses.
• In case you’re not watching “Mad Men” (and I pity you if you’re not), Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce were up for a CLIO against locals Campbell Mithun.
• Other things in the style of Calvin & Hobbes.
• iPhone or mixtape?

Friday Links: Happy SysAdmin Day!

• Today is SysAdmin Appreciation Day be extra nice to the nerd who waits to make fun of you for forgetting your password until you’re out of earshot.
• The Periodic Table of Mad Men.
• The Gamer’s Alphabet.
• Dancing typography is awesome.
• 10 words for things you didn’t know had names. I knew two of them, which makes me feel extra smart.
• The Best Magazine Articles is really worth your time, if only for the David Foster Wallace stuff alone.
• Thoughts on designing for the iPad.
• The product marketing manager of Campbell’s Soup wrote a letter of appreciation to Andy Warhol. So much awesome.

Friday Links: Short & Sweet since it seems most of the nerdom is at SXSW

• Can behavioral economics help agency creative? This is way more interesting and easy to read than it sounds.
• Will the iPad help or hurt news industry’s ad business?
• Whatever happened to programming.
• A Joan Holloway Barbie? Yes, please.
• Infographic of the week: Edmonton’s water consumption during the gold medal hockey game. Just check it out, it’s pretty rad.
• Milton Glaser & Chip Kidd in conversation.

Friday Links: App Store transparency, Miracle Whip, and more

• Apple adds some transparency to App Store approvals
• An uncanny similarity between The Office and Mad Men. If you’re a fan of these shows this is a must read. Come on, you always though Pam and Peggy Olsen had a strange resemblance to each other (also, you should watch Roger Sterling’s one liners when you have a minute).
• Colbert vs. Miracle Whip. Ya gotta give to hearty thumbs up for bold, sassy advertising like this. Props to the copywriters on this one (also see this follow-up).
• 50 Best Inventions of 2009.
• A short history of spelling things wrong on the Internet.
• An illustrated guide to seven ways to kill an idea.
• If you’re having a rough day and need to something to make you feel good about yourself, take comfort in the fact that you’re not (at least I hope you’re not) One of the five most common Facebook Fails.
• Tim Burton at the MoMA spot.

Sesame Street spoofs Mad Men

This might be the coolest Sesame Street spoof since they riffed on Twin Peaks in a spot called Twin Beaks. The best part of this is the end, when he calls the pitchguys sycophants. I laughed and laughed.