Auto Parts for Brains

I am pretty sure that most if not every Marvel film geek has seen the first trailer for Edward Norton’s play of the Incredible Hulk.  The trailer does succeed in instilling in us the excitement of another Marvel movie.  It promises a totally revamped Hulk movie and introduced us to some facts like who the opponent will be and how Ed Norton will look like as Bruce Banner.  After watching it, it left some questions unanswered.

With today’s release of the second, and longer Incredible Hulk trailer, some questions are answered and light is shed on a few facts.  Among these are the following:

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In his book “Permission Marketing”, author Seth Godin has described just how saturated the market is today with advertisements and ads that are all competing and vying for people’s attention.  The so-called “internet age” just made this matter worse, by providing even to the common man, an easy means to subject a massive number of people to unsolicited promotions.  In his book, Godin, taught the principle of opt-in marketing where people are given the agency to choose which ads they want.

In the real world, however, conventional obtrusive marketing still exists.  And much as a lot of people claim that it is dead, the advertising industry is thriving, maxing out its saturation point.  In a market that is already filled to the brim with messages being shouted to the consumer’s ears everywhere, it is the task of today’s ad companies to come up with louder, and more provocative methods of conveying ideas.  As a result, ads today are funnier, more controversial and more out of the beaten path.

Here are twenty (and more) of the print ads that are made out of the country which I think are just amazing at doing what they are made to accomplish.  Leave a mark (good or bad) to the unsuspecting consumer.  A picture truly paints a thousand words.

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With the start of the new year, it has become a sort of habit to look back on the past twelve months and look forward with excitement to the coming days and weeks.  The last few days have been that of making assessments and predictions of what the year 2008 holds for us.

The advent of the new year has made me think of the things I hope to achieve as well as a lot of the things I wish for.  A chat with friends a few days ago has brought me to asking them about their wish lists for the year.  It did not come as a surprise, though, when they gave me a handful of devices for their wish list, instead of, say,a new president of their choice or “world peace”.

Their responses have brought me to think of my own wish list.  On my search for that as well as with a few of my friend’s response, here are a list of gadgets that we hope will be available by this year.  These gadgets have been the subject of the hottest rumors last year.

After finding out that no Google phone is yet on the wait list, here are a few of the things that might be available by this year.

Apple Macbook Nano/ Tablet

Since mid last year, Apple fans have given rise to a rumor of a smaller more mobile version of its Macbooks.  With the company’s great strides in touch and multi touch technologies, it is not surprising it they will indeed come up with something as cool as a Macbook Nano.

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This year has been a great year for the site as well as for this blog.  I would like to take the opportunity to thank everyone who has visited the site and who contributed to our fun this year by wishing you a Merry Christmas.  May we all be blessed with a fun’er and better year next year.

With the ever increasing number of vehicles on our cities’ roads nowadays, it is not uncommon for anybody to have experienced the challenge of finding a parking space.  A lot of times, we take the risk of parking where we shouldn’t, only to get our vehicles towed away or worse.  Listed below are simple accessories and auto parts that one can add to his vehicle to optimize it for unauthorized parking in loading zones, to deter vandalism, and for industrial photography infiltration.

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 I don’t care if it was named as one of the worst cars of all times.  I may even admit that I have a gullible brain, so easily shaped by marketing ploys and brilliantly crafted propaganda.  Still, after seeing the Top Gear review of the 1964 Peel Trident P50, I can’t help but say that I want one like it today.  Watching the video review by Jeremy Clarkson just made me smile like a little boy, like when he gets a brand new toy.  I can imagine how useful a car like this can be in my everyday life.  Imagine packing this little toy with the latest of today’s technology and one will get a really cool automotive.

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Concept cars are not new to us.  Almost every year, we get a lot of cool and neat ideas from designers and car manufacturers on what could be the next big thing to hit our streets.  Usually, a great lot of these concepts do not even reach the production stage.  Still they serve as benchmarks for future concepts and innovations.

It is a challenge then for many auto show organizers to come with a challenge that will stretch the creativity and imagination of different car manufacturers.

In the recent LA Auto Show, manufacturers are made to explore a realm in car concept and design that has not been explored before.  They are made to look half a century from now, on what they think the cars of that time will be.  This is perhaps the farthest in the future that car makers and designers are made to look at.

The following are concepts from major car manufacturers as they attempt to create a vision for us on what cars will look like 50 years from now. 

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I love pictures a lot.  A picture has the ability to convey messages that would otherwise be hard or impossible to express.  Sometimes, a single picture can contain a story that could fill a book.

Moving and still images have taken the internet by storm.  From video and photo sharing sites, to improved tools for image manipulation and creation, everyone has turned their attention to this old medium giving it new life.

As an avid web hopper, I cannot survive without a good dose of images to make me laugh, cry or ponder.  Below are a compilation of some of the year’s strongest and most controversial photos in the net.  These images have graced the pages of many social bookmarking sites, and this is merely an attempt to give credit and recognition to those who have labored to make them available to our eyes.  I am tempted to call them The Net’s Best, but wouldn’t want to generalize so, instead, here’s Auto Parts for Brains‘ Best:

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It has been a while since the last time I have been to Netscape.  One can then, imagine the surprise I had, when I have found out that the long promised move to its new name has already taken place. 

Being a loyal patron of Netscape (Navigator is now my default browser and my AIM is open 18 hours a day) I cannot wait to explore the new site.  My first visit to Propeller did not show any new thing from my last Netscape visits.  “I guess they just moved the whole site to the new domain name” I said to myself.  When some of my friends (loyal Diggers) went on attack mode on the site, I know I had to give them something cool. I did some search and found a lot of stories on Propeller.  I saw feature requests, how to’s on using the site and some promise of change in the future but felt these are not enough. 

That is why on my third visit to the new site, I began digging hard to find chunks of information to show my friends.  The following are some of the information I have discovered.  I am pretty sure many of you know them already.  Still there may still be surprises ahead, so read on.

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Ok, I was blog hopping this morning when I chanced upon a contest by Site Fever. They placed a whopping 1 TB Western Digital Mybook Hard drive up for grabs to anyone who blogs about how they would use such massive storage.

Honestly, I don’t easily get excited by contests like this, having had no experience of winning anything as far as I can remember. Still, looking at that 1 Tb of empty space did make me drool and fantasize about what I’d do if someone gives me such an indulging device.

So, win or no win, here goes my 1 Tb plan:

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