Renault making creative use of the internet meme of spotting unfortunate URLs that went around the webs a while ago.

The sports brand’s first US TVC ever, featuring stars such as Kate Perry, DMC, Method Man and Becks.

A viral for Seagate.

Right, I’m off to Hamilton Island, one of the 74 Whitsunday Islands on the Great Barrier Reef, for a few days so no posts but here’s a collection of links I collected during the past week:

• First off, like every Xmas, it’s time to ElfYourself with OfficeMax
• Then, aLp, Alien Loves Predator, is back!
• 10 reasons to find a blog buddy
• Rumors around LCD Soundsystem, the world’s greatest band, splitting up
• Australia film not received well overseas
• Offbeat Guides, personalised travel books as a PDF or real-life copy (why not just a mobile app?)
• bio-bak.nl, hit it!
• Lessons in Internet Marketing
• FlowingData’s visual guide to the financial crisis
• Typealyzer: analyse a blog
• Ever heard of the mysterious sailing stones on Racetrack Playa, a seasonally dry lake in the Death Valley?
• AdAge asks whether magazine publishers still believe in the act of publishing
• A list of 10 free CMS systems
• PC Magazine goes online only (like most print media in the near future)
• Time magazine asks how many blogs the world needs
• Microsoft to rebrand Live Search
• Wired lists the top 10 amazing biology videos
• Resumes are dead. Social media is your new resume
• The End Flickr set
• The HD version of Digital Kitchen’s True Blood title sequence (also check out the featurette)
• Monty Python now has a YouTube channel
• Last but not least the good old baby powder hair dryer prank

Ping pong nunchucks

Lighting matches with nunchucks

There’s a special edition which comes with an action figure of the master himself.

Calgoo is another inevitable way to penetrate reach your audience with in-calendar marketing. Whilst not a new concept as the option of calendar entries has been popular as part of event invitations, Calgoo offers the centralised backend for promoting the calendar options as a permission-based feed to subscribe to. Obviously useful for everything time-sensitive such as events, weekly specials etc. The only thing missing is the option for people to use Facebook as the preferred platform for their updates.