There are many photos of Jakob Nielsen here. Many, many photos.

The Gyros Project is a gallery of the gyros signs in Chicago.

New promotion from Kellogs. They’ve added blue carrot shapes to Apple Jacks. The box says “Same great Jacks taste! No apple taste! No carrot taste!”

I don’t really understand. First, don’t Apple Jacks taste like apple? The box also says that the cereal is made with apple and cinnamon. Second, if you have to explain that it doesn’t taste like carrot, don’t you have a product problem? I realize they are going after a very young market (check out the fake blog on that link above), but I guess I just don’t understand.

Wow! My blogging on core77 gets a thumbs up from a reader!

Sign o’ the times: a TV commercial for OFF mosquito repellent points out it’s power to reduce the risk of West Nile.

Have you ever seen a commercial on TV that mentions any sort of disease or plague, especially a product that is not a medical product?

Got this today, in reference to the Rolling Stones website/mailing list I have run since 1992. It’s been a while since I’ve got one of these, but I’ve had every type of conversation with every time of Stones-community profiteer over the years, from the guy with exclusive rights to package tour deals, to this. Whoo hoo, they are offering me the chance to link to their site! OH MY GOD, this is fantastic news!

Subject: Ronnie Wood’s Art agents
To: webmaster@under-cover.net

Hello,

I�m a partner in the agency that represents the creative/Art career of Ronnie Wood. Being that you operate a very significant information source for Rolling Stones Fans (and Wood fans alike) I felt that it was very important that we get to know each other.

As you may know after 15 years of showing his art in a few galleries, Ronnie Wood sought the professional representation of our agency (SPS�s) Limelight Agency. Over the past two year under our management Ronnie has become the number one celebrity artist in the world. Achieving record sales and a following of serious collectors only rivaled by artiest like Peter Max. Much of this resent success has come from the parallel tour of his art with the recent Rolling Stones tour.

With the on going tour coming back to the United States and most likely south America. We will be continuing the pace of world class art openings/events at some of the worlds biggest art galleries. If you are interested I would very much like to help keep your sites members/visitors informed about the ongoing events.

To do this I propose. 1, we maintain an on going conversation 2, a direct link from your site to ours. Our site ( www.limelightagency.com ) has been designed to be the definitive information source for Ronnie Wood�s art career. Featuring a comprehensive catalog of every work that has ever been published, Art biography, Articles on him and his art Career, Photo�s from Gallery openings, a gallery opening calendar, and much more.

I look forward to hearing back from you soon. And many more contacts to follow.

All the very best.

Danny Stern

SPS�s
Limelight Agency

415 648 1967

601 Burnett Ave. Ste. 1,
San Francisco, CA 94131

5458 Wilshire Blvd, h
Los Angeles, CA 90036

www.limelightagency.com

Cupholder Central develops new products for the cupholder market, is advocating for new standards in cupholder sizes, does cupholder testing, and serve as expert witnesses for vehicular beverage spill liability.

The house, designed by Roger Dean, the multitasking painter, graphic designer and architect best known for his exotically surreal album covers for the music groups Yes and Asia in the 1970’s and 1980’s, is currently a one-of-a-kind nonworking prototype…Mr. Dean was nonplused to discover, in the mid-1980’s, that the Teletubbies lived in a house very similar to the ones he had been designing. “The real bad news wasn’t that they copied me,” he said, “but that because they were so successful people think I copied them.”

Read it all here.

Full story here.

Some defenders of New York culture might see the addition of a Red Lobster to the Great White Way as another example of the corporatization of Times Square; the Disneyfication; the nadir. That argument, though, raises the question of what is worse: the popcorn shrimp of today, or the sex trade of yesterday?

Besides, people need work � as evidenced by the thousands of job inquiries that the restaurant received in the months before it added that gaudy red bauble to the Times Square necklace. Red Lobster officials, whose eager-to-please smiles made them easy to pick out at yesterday’s grand opening, estimated that about 10,000 people had asked about jobs, and about 5,000 had gone through a rigorous interview process.

Story here about those wonderful and weird small market sodas.

Think of these regional sodas as a sort of effervescent subculture, bubbling under the surface of the ruthlessly consolidated soda market. Despite the big companies’ best efforts to create a carbonated hegemony, regional sodas have survived, and even thrived. They’ve done it primarily by trading on nostalgic intimacy.

Get your BarbaYaYas out!!!

Must be read: this list of upcomig TV shows, but summarized in the most incredibly terse way. It’s a hard to list to read very far through because it’s so boring and repetitive, but there’s just some funny stuff - the premises all sound so similar (family is surprised with baby; someone solves crimes but their own life is a mess) to each other and of course to what comes out every year. And there are TONS of them - most won’t make it to the screen, I imagine, and most of those won’t make it very after that.

Wild reading, really!

This came in today’s spam.

I hope the Snuggle people decide to sue.

Update: image is now dead

Just saw one of these t-shirts on VH1. Check ‘em out here.

Another somewhat random South Dakota discovery

Read more about Dinosaur Park.

In response to a recent survey of American phone users, AT&T wireless will be staging a somewhat unusual stunt this coming week. The service provider has decided to hire faux-grannies to ’shush’ at the ‘bad’ mobile phone users, while rewarding more courteous users with candy and vouchers for accessories.
Full story here.

Here’s an excellent niche business - printable skins for products, such as the iPod.

Palmer Candy is a South Dakota chocolate company. Neat to find local candy products!

Also in Rapid City is a place called Rice Honda. Ironic? I can’t tell.

This place in Rapid City, SD (where I am as of this writing) is not what I thought it was. Sad.

Today I got spam from “Enrique Nudnud”

Tom Green’s dogs are named Annie and Steve. Whaddyaknow.