Patrick Havens on July 19th, 2006

Wonder Woman, Superman, Batman Go Postal
Faster than a speeding bullet, comic book superheroes are coming to a post office near you. Batman and Superman, Wonder Woman, Supergirl and a half dozen other superheroes will star on new postage stamps being released Thursday.
The new 39-cent stamps and 24-cent postal cards will be made public at a [...]

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Patrick Havens on July 17th, 2006

Official Google Blog: “Let click fraud happen”? Uh, no.
You may have seen some of the media coverage generated by a blogger’s quoting Eric Schmidt about click fraud. By using select excerpts and ignoring the context of the remarks, that blog post made for an interesting read, but was unfortunately misleading.
Eric spoke at a SIEPR economics [...]

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Patrick Havens on July 12th, 2006

Will Ferrell porn star
Ok… most spoof ads make fun of ipods in intelligent ways. Will Ferrell (of Saturday Night Live fame) in this, I assume, spoof ad leaves you going… wtf? Will Ferrell porn actor wants you to buy an iPod?
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Patrick Havens on July 5th, 2006

Fake agency offers ads on hookers’ thighs
A Dutch design student bored with conventional advertisements has set up a fake online agency offering advertising space for beer, cars and TV stations on prostitutes’ thighs and cleavage.
On his website www.instoresnow.nl, Raoul Balai also proposed painting brand names on zoo animals and floating huge billboards off popular beaches [...]

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Patrick Havens on June 29th, 2006

One thing I’ve noticed in the last few weeks was the number of ADs offering free stuff for filling out a survey.  And in a lot of those cases the surveys were being run by the same company.  I was curious what the dollar value they’ve placed on these surveys considering they’ll give you everything [...]

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Patrick Havens on June 27th, 2006

The first two movies I have enjoyed immensly and because my son loves them I have watched NUMEROUS times on DVD. So when I heard that they had opened the doors on the site for a Number 3 and released Trailers. I had to watch.
First thoughts, the movie looks good, they have the [...]

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Patrick Havens on June 9th, 2006

It’s not often I have a post and all that it is, is a link. But this is for a reason. I’m not in this persons catagory. Where I’m making pennies with my ads in the hopes of somewhat subsidizing my hosting costs, this person has turned his one man show into [...]

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Patrick Havens on June 9th, 2006

Below post was taken from todays woot of the day. If you haven’t caught this before, woot sells one item a daty until sold out or a new item is sold for the next day. They usually have great prices and they always have good writers who will make the good parts shine [...]

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Patrick Havens on June 4th, 2006

2005’s 101 Dumbest Moments in Business
It may be old news… but I thought these still entertaining. We’ve got bad commercial, bad ideas and just general what the hell where they thinking.

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Patrick Havens on May 24th, 2006

Custom Stamp with a use
The best ideas are often the most simple. This fantastic ad to discourage drink driving is a case in point. Used by the Hotel Marriott in India for patrons of its popular nightclub Enigma, this “personal stamp ad” listing the phone number of the local cab company proved to be [...]

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