Life just got a lit­tle brighter. Samba de Amigo com­ing to Wii.

Mark Simon­son Stu­dios — Awe­somely designed web­site for awe­somely designed type.  Coquette is my favourite.

I’ve been “advised” that it’s high time I stopped writ­ing about new site. While I can’t promise that, I’ll try to cut back on site-related posts. Empha­sis on try.

With noth­ing else to write I bring you a mildly amus­ing anecdote:

There’s two new McDon­alds ads screen­ing at the moment in Aus­tralia — one for the Egg and Bacon McMuf­fin and one for the BLT. Thanks to the mir­a­cle that is Saint YouTube, I can show you the BLT one with­out get­ting into wordy descriptions:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74brZQp93HE]

Can you tell what they’re try­ing to sell? I’m pretty sure it has some­thing to do with bacon.

It reminds me of one episode of The Simp­sons when Lisa con­fronts L.T. Smash about the Navy’s adver­tis­ing techniques.

Smash: It’s a three-pronged attack. Sub­lim­i­nal, lim­i­nal, and
super­lim­i­nal.
Lisa: Super­lim­i­nal?
Smash: I’ll show you. [opens the win­dow, and shouts at Lenny and
Carl, who are stand­ing on the cor­ner] Hey, you! Join the
Navy!
Carl: Uh, yeah, all right.
Lenny: I’m in.

After see­ing the com­mer­cial for the first time I was dumb­struck. I started won­der­ing out loud who would actu­ally fall for some­thing like that. Right at that moment Ange came down the stairs say­ing: “Hmm. Wouldn’t mind some bacon actually.”

So now I know.

Best of August 2007 — an amaz­ing col­lec­tion of web design tools.

Word on the street is that Shaun Micallef is work­ing on a new TV series. Ace!