Even McEnroe did not complain.

Better! The snow has frozen.

Worse: A pilot takes a formula car on a trip around the track and we can have a peek. No speed record for sure but a very unusual show.

Forget all that and move to real middle-aged battle league: Use a two-handed Great Sword made of true good steel. To be sure of the advantage it gives or if you just want to figure what impact could such a sword have in knights battle, check this video below:

After such an ad (there is really a company manufacturing and selling these ultra-realistic swords to a public willing to avoid the low vulgarity of handling an automatic machine gun), I can’t avoid thinking that the knights wielding this kind of weapon must have had a nice tough build to hold and use this kind of nail clipper.

The discovery of WYSIWYG:

Precisely one year ago, BP should have followed this excellent advice and checked about the status of the Deepwater Horizon platform before it became an oil spill.

photo credit: Marco Bellucci

So, as suggested, you used Yahoo! Answers to grab the attention of Yahoo! users (and Yahoo! search engine) and of people who have questions to ask. So, you thought that this was the end of it? Of course not. Even if Yahoo! has a great legion of followers (specially in the USA and in the less-geeky public), they are not the only place where you can go and quick attention to your great new web site. There are actually plenty of other locations on the web where people go to ask questions and get answers. You will be able to use the same tactics (already described on YWantVisits.com) to spread knowledge and knowledge about your site.

1. Yahoo! Answers – Ask. Answer. Discover.
2. Answerbag – Ask Questions, Share Answers.
3. eHow – How To Do Just About Everything!
4. Mahalo Answers – Share Knowledge, Learn, and Get Questions Answered
5. Howcast – How-to videos and guides
6. Fluther – Tap the collective
7. Stack Overflow – Collaboratively edited question & answer site
8. SnappyFingers – Relevant answers for your frequent questions
9. Fifty People One Question – Ask fifty people the same question
10. Answerly – All you have to do is ask!
11. Mosio – Mobile questions. Answers. People.
12. PicAnswers – Picture Question & Answer Site
13. AskMeGo – Get & Give Advices
14. ToAnswer – Get your questions answered
15. Tweet Answers – Ask Questions, Get Answers!
16. TripShake – Answers on the go
17. teksup – User Powered Live Support
18. BlabberMash – Ask questions and get advice from other people
19. Defuddle – Where Questions Go to Get Answered
20. folkstown – Get Answered by Ordinary People
21. QToro – Bite-Size Knowledge
22. Answers.com – Online Dictionary, Encyclopedia and much more
23. Plinky – Create inspired content on the web
24. TwttrStrm – Ask a question of your Twitter followers and easily gather all their answers in one spot
25. Whyzz – Kids Questions & Answers

Seen on YLoveIllusions.com.

But shouldn’t the first question be: “Does it work?”

A German TV channel decided to ask the question and invited a leading company in this field for a demonstration of such a machine in a TV studio under the surveillance of their best expert while submitting a “would-be terrorist” to a body scan.

You don’t need to speak German to understand what happened: All goes down the drain when the machine sees the wireless microphone box at the belt of the “guinea pig”, but -most important- does not detect the presence of several components of chemical products that will be used to manufacture a powerful explosive (very similar to what happened on last Christmas, wouldn’t you say?)

Technology failed here.

You really want to install those expensive gizmos in airports for the sake of theatrical security?

And don’t make me believe that this was unfair: No airport can hope to keep the manufacturer expert in front of the machine to analyze the images… The reality would be much worse. The fact that the “victim” did his best to hide the chemical products was just representative of what a determined terrorist would be trying with a real bomb.

The evolution of technology, beginning in the early stone age and evolving to the most powerfull technology of all times.

Client: SATURN
Advertising Agency: Scholz&Friends, Berlin, Germany (www.s-f.com)

There could be waste in the most surprising places. So, don’t waste, use electricity wisely.

Via FAIL Blog.

If you want to know more, you can even buy those horse legs.

Schubert Concert on Sunday 24 May 2009 @ 12h30.

After several months when we all heard that corporate jets were the mark of the truly immoral bank or corporate CEOs, it seems that private jet companies are starting to take notice: All this bad press is putting more pressure on them than they would like to in difficult times like ours.

Hawker Beechcraft and Cessna Aircraft (the Empire, here) are fighting back with advertising to support the idea that it’s only true visionaries who are able to forget about all this and will keep using and buying their corporate business jets. Say that to Richard Wagoner Jr or to Dick Fuld! Or speak of stimulus ads!

According to the International Herald Tribune and Reuters, Cessna Aircraft is saying “Timidity didn’t get you this far” or “True visionaries will continue to fly” in their message. Hawker Beechcraft is also promoting its King Air 350 as “the world’s greenest and highly efficient aircraft“.

I am not sure whether this will really boost sales abck to stratospheric levels, but it’s an example of companies which are decided not to let the business go down the drain, despite bad times and worse PR.