links for 2007-09-25

• Funography Watch. Programme makers fight back! « Why, That’s Delightful!
  Gag master gags
  (tags: comedy gag)
• easyJet’s cheapo astroturfing campaign downs charity servers | The Register
  easyJet CEO Andy Harrison asked them to use the charity site WriteToThem.com, part of the mySociety project, to copy and paste a pre-written corporate lobbying letter to their local Member of Parliament
  (tags: easyjet campaign politics spam)
• InstantRailsWiki: Instant Rails
  Instant Rails is a one-stop Rails runtime solution containing Ruby, Rails, Apache, and MySQL, all pre-configured and ready to run. No installer, you simply drop it into the directory of your choice and run it.
  (tags: apache application apps build code ruby rails rubyonrails windows software programming tools)
• Roger Bagula
  Fano planes in code
  (tags: code fanoplane)
• vvvv: a multipurpose toolkit : UserPage Desaxismundi
  smart works
  (tags: vvvv)
• This Ad Will Give You a Headache, but It Sells – Advertising Age – News
  He fears if he hires an agency, he’ll lose his dispassionate approach. “If a focus group tells us something is not going to work, we discard it. There’s no conflict of interest this way,” he said. “We don’t care about winning creative awards.”
  (tags: advertising creative recall)
• Porn Industry Infighting As Pirate Bay Takes On Big Media | TorrentFreak
  Soooooooooo funny
  (tags: tpb piracy copyright law)
• Punk Planning: Just Stop It
  This is the work of Adam Crowe who has a remarkably sparky intellect and a feisty can-do attitude
  (tags: adamcrowe campaign consumer marketing people world)
• Flippin’ Girls « Zero influence
  3iying (the ‘girl’ lead agency) is not another PR/Marketing/Design agency – it’s an opportunity to make life better – for everyone.
  (tags: marketing female girl Heididangelmaier 3iying video culture)
• Microsoft Is in Talks To Buy Facebook Stake – WSJ.com
  Fight!
  (tags: facebook microsoft socialnetworking socialnetworks socialsoftware statistics google)
• if:book: books and the man, part III: the new patronage
  If you catch him in an expansive mood, David will tell you that the marketing industry will survive only if it stops trying to influence culture and just starts making it.
  (tags: media marketing culture wrtj)
• Serendipity Book: Chaos & Creativity
  “Chaos does this amazing thing that order can’t: it engages you. It gets right in your face and with freakish breath issues a challenge. It asks stuff of you, order never will. And it shows you stuff, all the weird shit, that order tries to hide.
  (tags: creativity inappropiate)