BoingBoing notices that the list of titles available on the British Airways frequent flier sign up page is enormous! The “kicks United’s ass” part is a reference to an earlier BoingBoing post about the titles on United’s sign up page, which, while long, are not nearly as impressive as British Airways’s.
Jason Kottke describes his idea for a horrifying mashup of reality TV shows.
For your listening pleasure: Super Mario Brothers and The Legend of Zelda.
“The bins all have a name corresponding to their various characteristics,” said Bernd Mueller of Berlin’s municipal rubbish collection agency.
If you’re tired of having the banana you pack in your lunch getting squished, you might want to look into BananaGuard, which is like body armor for fruit. And it comes in nifty colors like “Passionate Purple”. Wow.
“Well, you see, we thought at the time that a limited engagement in Vietnam was necessary to prevent the rise of Soviet Communism.” A list of phrases for the American traveling in Europe. First in English, then translated into French, Spanish, and German. How helpful!
An old quiz from the Brunching Shuttlecocks that will test your ability to distinguish between two frequently-confused concepts.
Here’s another commercial, this one about the usual length. Again it’s behind some Flash cruft - just click on “Full version of the TV ad” then on “high speed” - the “normal” version is compressed beyond legibility. I can’t quite put my finger on what makes this ad cool. Maybe it’s just the combination of the vaguely Maxis-style animation with the “Funkytown” song. Anyway, I thought it was neat.
An Auckland bloke got a speeding ticket, but the cop apparently wasn’t paying attention to what he was doing when he filled it out. He made a few errors, and the guy’s letter (PDF) to the police explaining the situation is hilarious! Unfortunately, the police just dismissed the ticket without making any witty comments. Oh well.
If all commercials were like this, we wouldn’t need TV shows! Which is just as well, because if all commercials were this long, we wouldn’t have time for TV shows. It’s an ad for American Express with Jerry Seinfeld and Superman. It is very funny. As Cory at Boing Boing pointed out, it is also remarkable that DC Comics actually licensed Superman for something so off the wall. I approve.
Don’t mind all the Flash crap you have to wade through to get to the video - it’s worth it. Just let it load, then click on the “Uniform” film canister.