By Brad on Jan 20, 2009 in America, Federal Government, Interesting Stuff, Obama Administration, The President | comments(0)
The official White House website, whitehouse.gov, changed as Barack Obama was taking the oath of office…
By Brad on Jan 15, 2009 in America, Crime and Punishment, Things That Make You Shake Your Head | comments(0)
Robert Eric McFadden used to be the director of the Faith-Based and Community Initiatives office under Ohio’s Gov. Ted Strickland. Now, he is accused of running a hooker rating website that “traded information about online escorts and prostitutes who worked the streets, including a 17-year-old girl. Police say he also helped organize a $10-a-ticket raffle that offered an evening with a prostitute.”
That’s one heck of a community initiative!
[Sources: TPM and AP]
By Brad on Dec 26, 2008 in FYI | comments(0)
For various legal reasons, I have added some necessary “fine print” for this site, which includes a general disclaimer as well as a “Terms of Use” agreement. You can find the general disclaimer on the side bar of each page. You can also find it on the “DISCLAIMER/TERMS OF USE” page, which also includes (obviously) the more complete Terms of Use. For your convenience and in the interest of full disclosure, I’ve included it all below Continued
By Brad on May 2, 2008 in Amazing Stuff, Cool Stuff, Sights and Sounds | comments(1)
Scott Kelby alerted me to this amazing flash video on the MGM Grand website. I couldn’t agree more with his review:
it is absolutely just about the most amazing Flash-based promo I’ve ever seen. This should have been a SuperBowl ad (it blows most of the others away).
Go to the website and then click on the “ENTER MAXIMUM VEGAS” tab on the right side of the page. The video is about 90 seconds long, but it loops continuously, so you only realize that you’ve seen the whole thing when it seamlessly returns to the original scene and goes back through the cycle again. One of the other amazing things is that when you load the website, the initial static image is often a different randomly selected scene from the promo video and when you click it, it starts from that point. It is flawlessly edited and is amazing in its presentation, execution and awe-inspiring cutting edge technique.
It really makes me want to visit, even though my first (and only) trip to Vegas didn’t leave such a grand impression.
