Entries from March 2008 ↓

Powerful advertising from DDB New Zealand:

Source

Fun virus for Mac

Awesome, awesome, awesome abridged history of war told through the foods of the countries involved.

21 Accents, nicely done

Not sure why Stuffit is advertising, I thought all archiving was pretty much native or free, but liking these ads:

Courtesy of AdHunt

This is the most original site i’ve seen in a while:

http://iad08.com/

A great article from Adbusters about the unsustainable fast-paced nature of society:

While we have 24 hours a day, a cultural needle injects us with anxiety about time. The side-effect is evident whenever we fretfully wait for someone stalling in line at the grocery store, or as we simmer rage in a traffic jam, or when we buy yet another product promising convenience (read: more time).

So, what’s in that needle? Is it consumerism, advertising, capitalism, technology? Perhaps “progress”? Try all of the above. We call it a lifestyle but it’s really a go-fast cocktail, and you’re likely buzzing on it right now. But beware: our fast ways also warm our planet, destroy ecosystems, and fuel mass attention deficits, anxiety, hyperactivity, stress and a desire for meaningless consumerist escapism.

The About Time clock, simply brilliant.

Shorter work weeks at 37 Signals:

Last summer we experimented with 4-day work weeks. People should enjoy the weather in the summer. We found that just about the same amount of work gets done in four days vs. five days.

So if that’s the case we could either push everyone to work harder during those five days or we could just skip one of those days. We decided to skip one of those days.

So recently we’ve instituted a four-day work week as standard. We take Fridays off. We’re around for emergencies, and we still do customer service/support on Fridays, but other than that work is not required on Fridays.

Three-day weekends mean people come back extra refreshed on Monday. Three-day weekends mean people come back happier on Monday. Three-day weekends mean people actually work harder and more efficiently during the four-day work week.