This rather charming alarm clock wins points with a great design: a monochrome display, a big tuning nob, some walnut panelling and a large frontal display, all equaling out to the kind of alarm clock you might see in an elderly Don Draper's bedroom. It'll do what most alarm clocks these days do, which is allow you to dock an iPod, connect an MP3 player or tune it to the radio. But what I like most about it is the name: the Vers 1.5R. I don't even know why: it just looks so divine. Vers 1.5r [Vers Audio via...
“I'm the boss, Lemon. You count the rocks.” I bet Baby Don Draper loved this episode. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment »...
This kid really, really wants you to buy that Kodak Carousel. He even slicked his hair back to impress you. I wish his parents had given him a tumbler of grape juice or something. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment » The Best Links: via Videogum the original Carousel pitch...
Social recommendation and personalization platform Plista, one of the companies in this year’s TechCrunch50 DemoPit, has secured an undisclosed amount of funding from Swiss Draper Investment Company. TechCrunch UK reviewedthe service after seeing it at work at the recent Web 2.0 Expo Europe in Berlin and called Plista basically a widget, API integration or Firefox browser plug-in which recommends content to users as they browse, based on collaborative filtering without the need for site cooperation. Its Greasemonkey script places a ratings box on each element of a site and rates it to your preferences. The recommendation engine works across sites,...
Berlin-based social recommendations service Plista has announced a round of funding today from the Draper Investment Company. Swiss-based investor Peter Schüpbach also joined the round. The company is not disclosing the total amount raised. Plista moves into private beta today and the company is planning for a full public release in January 2009. The system uses Collaborative Filtering and is available for Web, mobile and video-on-demand applications. Rafe has a good review of the service where he notes, "Think of it as Aggregate Knowledge meets MyBlogLog meets Sphere, with a dash of Matchmine." Tom Foremski has a lengthy review...
Every week on AMC TV's Mad Men, the men and women at Sterling Cooper create and design retro 1960s ad campaigns, all while obsessively chain-smoking, drinking and womanizing. Looking for a little fact in the fiction of Mad Men, Wired.com is asking some real-world ad executives to talk about the show’s realism and relevance to the advertising industry today. This week, we spoke with Jerry Della Femina, who has been working in and out of advertising since the early 1960s. Working with brands from Isuzu and Chemical Bank to Meow Mix and Pan Am, Delle Femina started his own...
Even though their job descriptions consist less of coming up with catchy ad pitches and more of watching over prisoners while they're fully armed, that hasn't stopped local court officers from drinking on the job like they're Don Draper. Tonight's Inside Edition will feature an undercover investigation where they caught on tape at least sixteen court officers violating court policy and drinking during their lunch breaks. One officer drank up to six beers during his lunch hour on 13 occasions. And when another found the criminal court's local watering hole Whiskey Tavern closed one day, he simply went ahead and...
Filed under: 30 Rock, Casting, Reality-Free, Mad MenOK, so his name isn't going to be Don Draper, unless Liz Lemon finds a time machine at NBC and goes back in time, but it looks like Mad Men's Jon Hamm is coming to 30 Rock.Hamm is in negotiations to play Liz's boyfriend on several episodes of the NBC sitcom later this season. This is coming off of Hamm's great turn as host of Saturday Night Live last week. The worlds of SNL, Mad Men, and 30 Rock are coming together, and it's all kinds of awesomeness.Continue reading Liz Lemon to date...
There's new hot Gort action happening inThe Day The Earth Stood Still 5 minutes trailer unleashing hell on our poor Earth. But more importantly Mad Men's Don Draper is in the cast? Why is the studio not publicizing the hell out of this? Jon Hamm is a god among skinny hipster emo men. He's a man reclaiming manliness, and we've the first photos released of him in this Keanu-laden flick. Check out the up-close stills of Hamm and some hot Gort action too. Granted I still think that Keanu Reeves is an excellent casting choice for an emotionless alien Klaatu...
(*Ed. Note: I'm not really sure what this means.) The good people of ONTD grabbed a couple of our Jon Hamm/Don Draper screencaps from SNL and added a few more of their own. In the comments, user telegram posted this genius thing: So now it's up to you: ROFL DON DRAPER. Or, if it's easier to say, ROFLHamm. Grab any of the above images (or head over to ONTD for even more), then upload your best Jon Hamm/Don Draper ROFLs over at ROFLRazzi and link to them in the comments. We'll post the best ones here. There are PAHLENTY of...
Filed under: The Simpsons, Reality-FreeThis Sunday, FOX will air the annual Simpsons Halloween special "Treehouse of Horror" episode. We've already told you that this year's installment will spoof Peanuts, advertising, and Transformers. Now we have some screen shots of the opening credits, courtesy of Best Week Ever.As you can see from the picture above, The Simpsons are doing Mad Men this season. Now, there's nothing particularly Halloween-ish or scary about Mad Men (though we could talk for hours about how Mad Men really is kind of frightening, with marriages and characters and the American Dream falling apart and all that),...
ALL THE JON HAMM SNL WALLPAPERS A GIRL COULD EVER WANT! (Click on each thumbnail to enlarge) Those of you paying attention (i.e. All the ladies in the house) know that this was a very special weekend for fans of actor Jon Hamm. Not only was the star of Mad Men/thousands of sexual fantasies the host of a brand new Saturday Night Live, but last night, he helped bring home the shocking second season of Mad Men. Let's recap each of these events, shall we? Saturday Night Live: Let's face it: We were all a little nervous when the...
Filed under: OpEd, Saturday Night Live, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free(S34E06) I'm not one of the hardcore Mad Men fans out there, but from what I've seen, the show is slick as hell. Never would I have expected Don Draper to be so funny, so I was absolutely thrilled that Jon Hamm did such a beautiful job hosting. He and Anne Hathaway have been stand-out hosts this season, and hopefully they'll be back for more, if only to show other hosts that it is entirely possible to read from cue cards with some degree of naturalism. Actually, some players could take notes,...
Mad Men’s handsome, silent, mysterious leading man gives the rest of us some tips on how to get the ladies. The fourth step is always the hardest. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment »...
