Yeah, I’m a tool. But Burger King’s viral marketing tactics are actually pretty amusing. (Even the XBOX games.)
So, as a brilliant tie-in with the new movie, BK offers you the chance to “Simpsonize” yourself! So far I haven’t been able to get all the way through it without an error. Maybe it doesn’t even work. But it’s mildly amusing along the way.
So there I was, sitting at my desk at work, minding my own business, when suddenly I realized… he was watching me.
Yes, peering over the edge of my flat-panel monitor, that evil Burger King was staring into my very soul!
Whew… I deserve a break today. (OK, so that’s McDonald’s. Have it your way.)
By the way, yes, that’s Anakin next to him. Go ahead, Anakin… kill him! He’s too dangerous to be left alive!
I frequently rail against how seemingly everything that’s for sale these days is made in China, often under harsh conditions and occasionally, as we’ve seen recently with the Thomas the Tank Engine debacle, containing toxic chemicals.
This giant industrial complex China has created is generally a mystery to most Americans. So many things we own are produced there, yet we know almost nothing about it.
Enter Edward Burtynsky, and his photo gallery of an inside look at Chinese industry, published today by Wired.
The folks at ThinkGeek seem to have outdone themselves with this little number.
I particularly enjoy the 3-step instructions for its use:
After a coworker and I spent some time today discussing the viral marketing campaign surrounding tomorrow’s release of the new Nine Inch Nails album, Year Zero, he mentioned number spirals to me, which led me to discover this fascinating site. Fascinating, at least, if you’re the variety of geek such as myself, constantly manipulating numbers in your head.