This And Twitter

OK, sports fans. New rule: By day I spend my hours writing copy and editing copy and cutting copy and reworking copy and generating copy and fixing copy and tweaking copy and I'm not loving the idea of creating any more copy by night.

So I'm going limit my blog posts for the next few months, and I'm going to limit the ones I post to a maximum of two words – and those words will be the source of the link.

Let's see how this goes.

Cat Burglar

Non Sequitur

Big Event

How cool is this? Via Paste magazine, we present the awesome website Every Day Posters Every Day – where, through smartly designed posters, they turn the most mundane of everyday events into a... well... y'know... EVENT.

Astronaut

Abstruse Goose.

Streamlined

Non Sequitur.

Vee Dub

Maybe it's because I pretty much grew up in an old Volkswagen Kombi. Who knows? Whatever the reason, I have a bit of a jones for VW advertisements. Wherever you go in the world, you're pretty much guaranteed that you'll pick up a magazine with a sharp, smart VW ad.

Like this one from China, where the copy promises: "It will go fast."

Or this one from Norway, advertising the Lane Assist technology.

Or this one from Australia, promoting one of VW's sporting sponsorships.

And this one from South Africa, crowing about VW's Dakar Rally win.

Then there's this one from Germany, calling the Cross Polo "an offroad car, not necessarily for offroad people".

And this one from France, which is as much about VW owners as it is about VWs.

National

I've had this song stuck on Repeat since I heard it on NPR a couple of weeks ago.

Tramp Stamp

I'm loving this ad campaign for Pilot Extrafine pens.

Mud

Get your grayscale on. It's the Boryeong Mud Festival, brought to you by The Frame.

Forsooth

Verily, xkcd.

Talk About The Weather

While I'm freezing my toes off in the southern hemisphere (although that probably has more to do with the broken aircon than with the weather), the folks up north are either sizzling in the summer

or watching the storm clouds gather.

Either way, it makes for great photos at The Big Picture and The Frame.

Tree

What a treat! DesignCrave has a gallery up of 15 Spectacular Treehouses From Around The World. I want one.

Hangover

Zapiro says it all...

Innovation

Driven by the Innovation Insanity initiative, Trendwatching.com has a list up of 67 new innovations that could change your world.

The ideas on the list are amazing and inspiring, and range from bamboo bicycles to windows that collect solar energy, vending machines that sell fragrances (in Paris, of course), keepsake stamps of babies' feet and hands, and a project to transform Rio's favelas by giving them a new, colourful lick of paint.