Duke Nukem Forever has topped Wired’s annual Vapourware list since the late 17th century, and it carries on the fine tradition this year. I wonder whether this game will launch before the next Guns N’ Roses album…

Interesting promo site for IKEA — upload your own MP3, play with a keyboard-driven drum kit or shout into your computer’s microphone and see the action. Pretty fun, even funny, and beautifully executed but somehow seems a pointless: I really don’t see how sound will make all the difference if I am buying a cupboard.
But, hey… you know… it’s really nice.

An absolutely stunning piece of film-making for this Toshiba commercial by Grey London. Honestly, I don’t know how the heck this advert sells Toshiba’s Upscaling technology in particular, but the jaw-dropping technique is just fantastic. You can’t really go wrong with a Crystal Castles track for the music either.

The scale of the production is massive: 200 Toshiba camcorders, 2.5 million individually named frames and 20 terabytes of video.

[Via Heavy Backpack]

Very nice photography for British Airways but what’s the point when BA’s staff can’t hold their shit together, eh? But great photography nonetheless from a team of about five photographers — see the other images here.

Designed bar codes can be a good, even powerful, idea for branding — someone should do it soon! I already have a massive number of ideas and executions in my head after seeing this.

It’s a tired old concept but the strangely magical and beautifully crafted sea creatures make me want to watch this ad again and again!

[The] last time AC/DC made No 1 in Britain, the country was on the brink of recession. Back In Black, the album that marked their commercial breakthrough and went on to become the second biggest-selling of all time, was released in 1980, just as inflation had reached 20% and unemployment inched towards 2 million.

›› The Guardian analyses the timings of AC/DC’s chart successes

These are the same guys who were from that Budweiser television commercial eight years ago. Brilliant!

A great response to an article on plain packaging to strip the ‘glamour’ from cigarettes for ‘new’ smokers.

Nice smackdown by Apple on the copycat Microsoft campaign.

…and John McCain is a courier pigeon.

See more of this ‘Candidate = ‘ in this Flickr set. It’s all pretty funny (I am still laughing at the ‘McCain = Courier Pigeon’), but it is a bit disturbing when people start using material things to identify with people.

[Via Wired]

Johnny Rotten (aka John Lyndon) once sang “I am an anarchist” and led the punk revolution in the 70s, but now he is selling butter. The ensuing mockery, which was as inevitable as tomorrow, is just too funny.

That was fucking funny. Seems the assholes even won a fucking Emmy award.

I love seeing retro ads but I didn’t know there is an entire cottage industry that sells vintage magazine advertisements. I guess real riches are truly in the niches…