Consumer Confidence Bolstered By Smiley Faces

I trust the company behind this banner completely. I mean look at how deftly they combine the seriousness of the credit crunch with the lightheartedness of smiley faces.

Who wouldn't click on this bad boy?


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The French To the Rescue

Oh good, now that the French are on it I'm sure internet piracy will be taken care of in like a minute. What are they gonna do, revoke China's internet privileges?

Actually all this French internet piracy concern is the result of millions of Frenchmen spending hours illegally downloading nude pictures of Carla Bruni, the Prime Minister's wife—reason enough to be thrown off the woo woo woo for life.




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Spam Designed by Mad Man

This is a tough one so follow me for a moment:

The email is "From" Morning TOP news
The subject line is "Strains in Relationships?"
The masthead is CBS News
The offer is for Viagra from Canada

Did you catch all that? It's like a maniac got hold of a PC for like 20 minutes and puked his crazy brains out all over the keyboard. It makes no sense whatsoever, yet the young lady pharmacist in the white lab coat seems so authoritative and after all who do you trust more than Canadians and CBS News to sell you your Viagra?





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Interacti-Cam Put to Good Use

Shake Shack in Madison Square Park apparently makes such good burgers that a line forms early and often leading to intolerably long delays. So what did the smart Shackers do? They set up a webcam so potential eaters could get an idea how long the line is before they set out for their noon-time burger.

This is an aplaudable use of the interacticon—it delivers a simple useful service in a pleasant, clean design. It's basically the same thing as when you call AT&T and the recorded voice tells you, "Your expected wait time is 390 minutes," except you can see who's ahead of you and what the weather's like.

Burger anyone?



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Some Things Really Don't Belong Online Part 2

He runs the Renault F1 team. He owns a night Club in Sardinia called the Billionaire's Club. He dated Naomi Campbell for years. He had a kid with Heidi Klum. He sweats too much, has busted up teeth and is overweight. But yeah, he needs a website.

This was not the purpose for which Al Gore invented thee, oh interacticon. Poor interacticon.



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