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Fiat have gone interactive in the cinema in Brazil. Click the six-minute-long interactive movie is in the "choose you own adventure" style and generates 16 different endings depending on the choices of the audience. The campaign site (in Portuguese) is here.
Japan's Bandai is selling a small, handheld gadget called the Shape Up Advisor that helps the user (it's targeted at Japanese teen girls) count calories, do exercise and reach fitness goals.
A new Adidas website by EVB for Flash and basketball fans. "Do you believe in 5?" starts with a great video, and develops in a website which aims at having basketball players sharing the ideas and ideals they believe in.
A wide-angle live webcam towards the pyramids in Cairo. Or see the close up cam.
In the US, they're getting ready for Superman's return on DVD, as you can tell from the Daily Planet website and from Lex Luthor's page on Myspace.
Hotel Campari is a sexy online effort recently launched by MRM worldwide for the Italian beverage Campari. The Hotel Campari site is quite mysterious, but it's getting ready for the big event on the 23rd of November. Check out what happened now...
Go and visit The Celebrity Bathroom at the Toilet Museum. See who's been caught on picture with his/her pants down....
This is the music video for the first single from Weird Al Yankovic's newest album Straight Outta Lynwood (release date: Sept 26th, 2006). Animation is by Bill Plympton. We are the World...in Don't Download This Song "......go and buy the cd like you know you should..."
Stonehenge, stone circles, dolmens, ancient standing stones, cairns, barrows, hillforts and archaeology of megalithic Europe. Online since February 1996, The Stone Pages contain all 529 archæological sites in Europe, creating the first Web guide to European megaliths and other prehistoric sites.
Julian Beever is an English artist who's famous for his art on the pavement of England, France, Germany, USA, Australia and Belgium . Beever gives to his drawings an amazing 3D illusion. Scroll down slowly and stop at each new frame.
Why the new wave of Silicon Valley startups are picking names without vowels - like "Flickr" or "Pluggd". This is a fad that will give the survivors a nice vintage feel in five or 10 years...
Evidence has emerged in the grounds of Windsor Castle of a building that may be linked to the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
Welcome to the Official Seal Generator. Enter some text, choose a border and an emblem, pick your colors, and click the 'Go' button. An Official Seal will be generated for you.
To view the Earth as currently seen from a satellite in Earth orbit, choose the satellite from the list and press the "View Earth from Satellite" button. The satellite database is updated regularly and covers hundreds of different positions and satellites.
Scientists have discovered a dramatic variation in the genetic make-up of humans that could lead to a fundamental reappraisal of what for instance causes incurable diseases. Until now it was assumed that the human genome, or "book of life", is largely the same for everyone. Instead, the findings suggest that the book contains entire sentences, paragraphs or even whole pages that are repeated any number of times - we are at least 10 times more different between one another than once thought.
I've linked to him before, but he's well worth linking again: Shaun O'Boyle's photographs of abandoned buildings. Eerie and quite well done. Modern Ruins Photographic Essays.
Tiger: unravel the secret, an impressive advertising project for the new Tiger beer campaign. Tiger: Unravel The Secret is a short movie which investigates the past and the secret of Tiger beer success. The Web is only a part (yet very important) of the advertising effort. Visit Unravel The Secret.com
Europeans are overwhelmingly convinced that human activity is contributing to global warming, and a majority – 68 per cent –would be prepared to accept restrictions on their lifestyle to combat it, according to a poll for the Financial Times.
