This new and cunningly reversed Guinness advert is the latest to grab my attention. Read about its own evolution here, and in a wibbler.com exclusive you can see the unreversed advert here! Lucky devils…

Lummy. This should really be a link post, but I think it deserves a full blown announcement here: Google Maps UK. Look at maps, get directions, find local indian takeaways. And if it’s anything like Google Maps in the US, it’ll soon have satellite images…

You remember that VW Golf/Gene Kelly video I wrote about a few posts ago? Well, it turns out one of the 3 dancers for that film is David Elsewhere, an amazing dancer who has a good few videos of himself on his website. Chief weblogger Kottke has the lowdown, including an interview with Elsewhere himself. Turns out he didn’t enjoy it as much as we did… “The sound stage was cold and we had to dance under artificial rain for hours. To avoid freezing we wore wet suits under our already thick, tight costumes.” Bless. (via LinkMachineGo)

Viral marketing – a type of marketing that is made to spread through hearsay, gossip and email – seems to have the public by the gullet at the moment. Firstly, there’s that infernally annoying Crazy Frog “best ringtone in the world” – that the keen geeks amongst you may know originated from an impersonation of Murray Walker. Then, there’s the Volkswagen suicide bomber “advert” that has been doing the rounds since last week on email and websites. When I emailed it to friends last week, I knew it would kick off – and lo and behold newspapers are up in arms and VW are looking to sue – or at least pretend they never commissioned it.
I’d go into more depth – but Tim and Bloggerheads.com has beaten me to it, thrashing through the facts more throughly than I could ever manage. So, without further ado, here is Tim’s analysis on:
- The VW Polo ‘suicide bomber’ non-ad
- The Evolution of Crazy Frog – from Deng Deng to Ringtone

Oh look, Boris Johnson has his own site…
Ok, ok, I’m feigning surprise. For the last few weeks, Tim and I have been slaving over a hot computer, making sure that the official Boris Johnson site has all the bells and whistles the great man wanted. I’ll be honest, I’m not too enamoured by the design – I was merely the code monkey that got their design to run.
However, it is outrageously good fortune that a political figure with such a good writing style has signed up to blog about his life as an MP – trust me, you’re in for a treat…!
UPDATE: Track the bloggers discovering Boris’s new site here.

Belle de Jour, prostitute, blogger and nearly a published author, is hanging up her mouse, presumably for contractual reasons. Either that, or she feels her job is done. For as long as she’s been blogging, I’ve been reading, and I’ll miss her well-turned phrases and lough-out-loud observations. As she eloquently put it, “All things pass. For instance: Harts the Grocer, I am saddened to note, are now Tesco Metro. But that is the way of things.” And she ends with a word of advice. “Don’t ever turn down pleasure because you were afraid of what other people might say.”
But a nagging thought plays on my mind – how will we ever know if she’s real now?

With a heavy heart, Tim at Bloggerheads has announced he’s hanging up his activist mouse. His fantastic final act, The Parting Shot (for Bush the fascist and Blair the appeaser), is a masterpiece, a tear jerker – please visit it, even if you don’t see eye to eye with him (that’s you, mother…). Always insightful, always provocative, and run by a bloody good bloke, Bloggerheads was one of the most popular sites on the internet. End of an era – thanks for everything, Tim! Hopefully we’ll keep in touch…

Say No to 0870 – a website dedicated to giving you alternatoves to those expensive 0870 numbers. Useful to save your hard-earned pennies from those money-grabbing companies.

Gunkanjima – the Battleship Island – now abandoned, and photographed studiously. A fascinating pictorial history of what was the world’s most densely populated island.

“It was a cross between River Wild and Deliverence.” The latest from Mark R’s blog of his RAF training in New Zealand – named after his course title – reports on his white water rafting expedition. “The level of experience in our group was extensive – James G had once waved at someone in a canoe in Australia and we all knew what a boat looked like.”