Twitter from Mars

Last Thursday (19th June) Nasa announced the discovery of Water Ice on Mars.

Seriously, Water Ice!

Next to actually encountering an alien, this stuff is the Holy Grail of space exploration. This is pretty much the biggest news they've had since Neil Armstrong uttered those famous words. So how do you let the world know about this historic event?

Twitter.

Honestly, NASA announced to the world that water-based ice had been discovered on another planet Via this tweet:


NASA are using Twitter to feed constant information about the Mars Phoenix Rover to over 20,000 followers!

Cool USB Keys

I may have missed the 70's but I still see myself as having grown up with Star Wars, and I love these!

Dance Matt, dance

Imagine travelling the world. Imagine visiting new cities, seeing breathtaking landscapes and meeting the diverse cultures of the globe. If you could do all this, and become part of the kaleidoscope of humanity, what would you bring to them? What would you teach them?

A funny dance seems as good as anything else!

Matt visited 42 countries in 14 months, and in each of them he danced.



Visit Matt's own site or the section of the Stride Gum (his sponsors) site all about him.

Soft Link - Levi's 501 Viral

Check out Richie's Levi's 501 post - great stuff!

Wordle

Wordle is a nifty little site which turns a paragraph of text into a word cloud. Take a blog post you have written and run it through Wordle as a cool way to figure out the social tags you should use for your piece.

This is the wordle for this email:

World of World of Warcraft. Seriously?

Play a game, where you are someone playing a game. I really wasn't sure at first if this was real - I Stumbled on it and had no point of reference. Thankfully it didn't take long, while there are definitely an aweful lot of idiots out there, I hope no one is this stupid.

"The garphics are amazing, they're revolutionary", says one gamer interviewed in this clip, "I mean, when you're staring at the computer screen, you believe that you're in a dimmly lit basment staring at a computer screen.With each keystroke you're just like oh my god, that sounds exactly like the keystrokes that I know from my own personal experience of hitting keys".

A fantastic bit of work by the guys at The Onion.



'My own personal experience of hitting keys'! Genius!!

Do The Test

Hopefully you caught the dothetest ad for Transport for London when it was doing trhe viral rounds. If not, check it now – brilliant, brilliant work. Created by WCRS, the video resulted in over 5 million views online in the space of one month.

Now I’m also happy to say, it’s won a Gold Lion at last week’s Cannes Lions Advertising Festival.

Congratulations to everyone involved.