digg.com wants me to barf

Over the last several days, I've seen some awful, awful banner ads on digg.com. And since misery loves company, I thought I'd share them with you!


Yeah, because digg has locked down the gangly old skank demographic.


digg is agreat if you're trying to reach the pimply young goober demo.

I know what the advertisers are going for here. They are selling possibility. They are effectively insulting us by saying, "you're so pimply and wrinkled, you need to buy this crap. Look how great you could look. Give us your money and stop looking so ugly all the time." It's as much aspirational as it is inspirational. But still, you wouldn't bring a homeless guy to a job interview just to illustrate how great employable are. You don't have to gross out your audience or pound them over the head!

Man, I just want to pop those things!

New Mountain Goats Video

I'm so excited about this. The new album comes out February 19th

If you want the mp3, grab it at stereogum.

Easy Reflection and Fresh Wave

This handy guide to creating glossy reflections in Photoshop was made by Tim Pederson. It's a great way to build reflections of objects shot at 3/4 views without having to redraw or fake the way the reflection falls.


Click the image to see it full-size.

Thanks again Tim. You can visit his website here.
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Moving along... no one knows fresh like the gas station. That's why if you have odors that want to be all up your shiz, cop attitudes, or ally themselves with your enemies, you should get Fresh Wave: Continuous Reslease Odor Netralizer.


That really was at the gas station. Right by every DVD no one would ever want.

Seriously. Get it. You smell.

dianahaskell.com [heart]s Papyrus

Ambassador Justin sent a badass, Papyrus-laden dream of a photography site:


Diana Haskell Photography [heart]s Papyrus

There's some cool stuff there. Like this:


This is your dog on pot.

Anyhow, thanks ambassador Justin.
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Also, I was watching some of the College Humor originals and thought this one about urban legends in the ER was pretty funny:

the solar system's largest planet [heart]s Papyrus

Jupiter cut an album with Nasa...

Eat My Soup - Join some group

Here's a bossy soup display I saw at Kroger:


That's trademarked so don't even think about saying it.

And I made a Papyrus group on Facebook.



Come on and join it!

Guns, hair, faces

Exercising my second amendment rights this past weekend, I travelled up to Norcross Georgia to American Classic, a shooting range up there. Nothing like a strip mall shooting range...

Anyhow, among the strip mall establishments, there was this:


A little bit of typographic disconnect from the marquee to the window

Also, for those of you on Facebook, I made an "I [heart] Papyrus" group there. Please join and share your Papyrus and anything else. I'll grab some of that stuff and put it here as well.



Follow this link to find the Papyrus group on Facebook.