Sections: Uncategorized Mar 30th, 2005 1 Comment The Honda diesel commercial in particular blows my mind. Check ‘em out:
[ British Advertising Awards ] via Ad Blather
Sections: Uncategorized Mar 30th, 2005 1 Comment Despite what cities have been telling us for years it would that those redlight cameras actually can cause fatal accidents:
After evaluating the performance of red light cameras at 68 sites over two years, the report concluded that jurisdictions using photo enforcement experienced an overall increase in property damage accidents of 18.5 percent coupled with a 4.9 percent increase in fatal and injury rear-end collisions. Rear-end collisions involving property damage alone jumped 49.9 percent.
The report also concludes that there was an overall reduction in serious accidents and angle collisions. A closer look at the data found in this government-sponsored report show that intersections monitored by cameras experienced, overall, a 2 percent increase in fatal and injury collisions compared to a decrease of 12.7 percent in the camera-free intersections that were used as a control group (page 21). In fact, the non-camera intersections fared better than the camera intersections in every accident category. The report’s overall accident conclusions would have appeared significantly worse had the camera-free intersections been excluded from the final results.
[ Study: Cameras Increase Fatal Rear End Accidents ] The Newspaper.com
Sections: Uncategorized Mar 29th, 2005 1 Comment Justice Stephen Breyer questioned how the court could draw the line between Verrilli’s assertion that P-to-P software enabled “substantial” infringements and the Betamax ruling. If the court recognized a new standard penalizing technologies enabling substantial copyright violations, the copying machine, the VCR and the Gutenberg printing press might not be legal, Breyer said.
Zang! For more goodies check out the full story:
[ Supreme Court justices question P-to-P lawsuits ] Macword
Sections: Music Mar 29th, 2005 2 Comments Those that downloaded the leaked early mixes will be interested to know that the final album does indeed differ from what had been available on the web. And as an added bonus there are a couple of new tracks on the regular release plus several remixes on the limited edition version and a pretty trick visual DVD mix.
[ Beck's Guero ] Beck.com
Sections: Uncategorized Mar 29th, 2005 2 Comments The Aztek concept was unveiled to the media in January 1999, at the North American International Auto Show. But prior to that, a handful of us were invited to a studio to get an early look. They pulled back the curtain, and there it was. Sort of a Candid Camera moment, but no cameras, no Allen Funt. Just a few journalists, and some General Motors people hoping that we were about to tell them that they’d just hit on the Next Big Thing.
[ Legend of the Aztek ] Inside Line
Sections: Uncategorized Mar 23rd, 2005 6 Comments Have owned my iPod for the better part of 3 hours now… thanks Matt. They really work with this Photoshop induced haze I’m in currently.
Sections: Uncategorized Mar 23rd, 2005 1 Comment As witnessed by a camera phone.
Sections: Uncategorized Mar 22nd, 2005 2 Comments has got to be the best thing since buttered toast (which itself beat out sliced bread just a few years ago).
Sections: Uncategorized Mar 22nd, 2005 3 Comments It almost makes a pair of $250 trainers look worth it.
Sections: Uncategorized Mar 17th, 2005 No Comments This year ESPN blew away the competition with it’s slick bracket site. That said the pool I’m in is using the CBS Sports Line (horrible name) version. The thing that is annoying about the CBS version is the relatively low quality jpg that they give you to download and print your pics. Who, with any knowledge of image files, would make the decision to go with a jpg over a gif or even a png?
ESPN of course does it the right way by give you a choice of gif or PDF to download.
Anyway for those scoring at home here’s a hard to read jpg (thanks CBS!) of my picks.
Sections: Uncategorized Mar 17th, 2005 3 Comments File transfers from iPod to iPod. It’s nice to see Apple’s crippling of its own technology can be circumvented.
Gabriel Bridger is an associate creative director, and part-time blogger living in Chicago. Bridger.us is a rambling collection of thoughts, comments, and various media in no particular order and, at times, of no particular merit.
