Digiwonder?

Ever been out with “That Guy?” You know the one who has two, three, eight too many and ends up embarrassing the entire crowd? Not surprisingly, binge drinking is a serious problem among military recruits. The DOD hired Fleishman Hilliard to develop this incredibly non-government feeling campaign. It’s hip, edgy, savvy and the website is incredible. Have fun.

For a break at work, try Virgin’s 74 bands game. Looks like it’s been floating around for a while, but it was new to me this week. Can you find them all?

I think I just hit my 15 minutes! If you are going to the NTEN conference, be sure to visit the session Jonah Sachs and I are leading on online storytelling.

I don’t know why, but I’m really excited about my new twitter page.

And after complaining that my Google homepage was too boring and switching to page flakes, Google has launched a bunch of new groovy themes to choose from. I’m fickle, I’m back to Google.

Check out this story on eyetracking software from the Annenberg Center for Communications at USC.

Read the article to the end and you get to this juicy tidbit (tee hee)!

Although both men and women look at the image of George Brett when directed to find out information about his sport and position, men tend to focus on private anatomy as well as the face. For the women, the face is the only place they viewed.

Coyne adds that this difference doesn’t just occur with images of people. Men tend to fixate more on areas of private anatomy on animals as well, as evidenced when users were directed to browse the American Kennel Club site.

My friend and co-strategist Emily Weinstein sent me a link today from YouTube. Someone took Apple’s 1984 Macintosh ad and tinkered with it so that it paints Hilary as a symbol of a politically calculating past and Obama as the fresh start of a new transparent era of politics. Shall we say a 2.0 candidate?  Check it out and the SF Chronicle article about it.

I saw the best show at 9:30 Club in a long time on Friday- Michael Franti and Spearhead. Check him out on YouTube to get a flavor of what it was like. Jumpin’!