the worst banner ad i have ever seen

this must be a joke. i don’t have any idea why anyone would click on this ad. this is even worst that those stock dancing flash movies used in other crappy banners. first of all, the NYS driver’s license looks nothing like that. second, could they have used a worst image? this guy looks like he was born in 1884 not 1984 and drives a mule, not a car.

it only takes 3 dollars to buy an image from istock.com folks.  the ad agency responsible for this should be fired - along with the client’s marketing department. c’mon people…all this money spent on media buys and this is the best creative you could get. the only thing they can probably say in their defense is that they save you money cause they don’t spend it on creative.

anybody have any worst banners…send them over.

http://jpgmag.com

ok, i haven’t written any posts in a LONG time but i figure i better get one in during december, before the new year is upon us. the reason for this absence is that for the past couple of months i have been totally addicted to jpgmag.com - and because of this, jpgmag.com gets my favorite time suck and social network of the year for 2009. woot woot!

in case you don’t know about it, jpgmag.com is a photo sharing social network site. the thing that makes it different from flickr or any other photo site is that the most popular and well accepted photos by vote make it to an actual printed magazine. in some old school analog way, that is way cool! the other difference is that jpgmag.com doesn’t want all your photos; they just want your best photos. of course flickr has some great photos and jpgmag also has some crappy ones, but when you’re asked to upload your best, it really makes one (and in this particular case, photographers) really think about what they will show the public. after all, we all want to get our best work published.

Sister mine. by edd carlile

so to make a long story short, i have spent hundreds of hours looking at and uploading photos -  and the truth is that i have spent most of that time looking at great work from some awesome professional and amateur photographers. i have probably viewed thousands of photos -  from amazing portraits by edd carlile to stunning abstracts by ina k to amazing landscapes by marc krutiak. but i could go on and on… anyway, you can find me here so sign up and vote for my photos (wink). i even got chris sofe to start posting there again. now to get dave schiliro to put up his abstracts.

oldest domains

while researching DNS and domain names i came across these two interesting lists, courtesy of tgdaily.com. the first is a list of the oldest domains and there are some pretty cool tidbits in the article. the second is the complete list of root domain names. this list contains all country, private and sponsored domains. so if you’re looking to buy a domain in kyrgyzstan or you find out you hace $18,000,000 in a bank with a country code of .nu, you’ll know where to look for it.

complete list of domain names