The kids at Deeplocal must have been a litte bored recently, as someone sat down to make the "Like Belt". This fancy giant buckle allows you to "like" things in the real world... By thrusting your pelvis at it. A bit like a misbehaving dog or one of the guys from Wayne's world: SCHWING!. Oh ha ha, very funny - and to make sure you realize how silly this is they took the belt out for a test on the town, liking coffee-shops, checking in at the office and making facebook friends. The best part is when the lady wearing the belt wants to make Facebook friends with the guy she meets.... wait for it.

Okay okay, now the shit [blank] says has jumped the shark twice, once wearing Fonzies speedos and smoking a cigar, if you can muster the energy here is the very last one. Which you will watch, because it's about us.
Matt Klan and Ross McIntyrei roamed around the halls and stalls of some ad agency spewing out all the shit ad agencies say. "Sushi?" "Yepp" - "I got it, a virus campaign!" -""Betty Draper is a bitch". There'e also of course a mention of Agencyspy just to get on there, hopefully. Asskissers. ;)

K-fed, also known as well-fed and Britney Spears ex-husband Kevin Federline is recording Excess Baggage, a celebrity weight loss series, in Australia. Yes TV has gotten that bad, aren't you glad you set fire to your set years ago? Back in December he was taken to hospital with signs of heat stress, and yesterday he was rushed to the hospital with chest pains that some feared was a heart attack.

Barbarian Group celebrates ten years of shaking things up -- and those leg garters are still quite nice -- by showing off on a subsite aptly placed at x.barbariangroup.com. On the site you'll find genius weirdness like when Jenna the Intern decided to invite the entire company into a massive iChat. The reason for "Oh hey Tobu. Yo baby ugly." company meme, the history of their 404 pages, why they call the Irish Car Bomb cocktail The Car Baum and more. It might not be a "how is babby formed", but it's still funny. Oh, and in between the digital hijinks is some digital work. They do actually work sometimes too, you know.

Remember the "Madge" billboard that milked a woman to poo-poo GM food? Here's an interesting image of a Madge-billboard in situ, next to another billboard showing happy ppizza.bakers about to shove a pizza-bun into.. er.. her oven?

I seriously doubt that this epic bad billboard placement is real, but it made me snort with laughter anyway.

You've heard of the people who work at ad agencies who tattoo the agency logo on them. Not all logos were created equal though, some really are better than others, and to take it one step further there are those who ink real brands on themselves. This weekend Danny Corrales, aka @coolsideburns the AD you've seen at CP+B, BBDO and as a teacher at The Creative Circus, declared his love for Converse All Star and that classic logo by having them inked onto his ankles. Positioning is everything.

It probably hurt like a motherfucker, but we think the results are worth it. Nicely done Danny.

Everyone has written about Michael Wolff leaving adweek. The NYT, Reuters, even Adweek themselves. And now B|Net recounts Wolff's career to date. There should be word invented for the type of resume B-Net's Jim Edwards just gave Richard Wolff.

"Money talks" says OccupyGeorge who are stamping one-dollar bills with simple graphic info-slogans to help circulate the word.

Money talks, but not loud enough for the 99%. By circulating dollar bills stamped with fact-based infographics, Occupy George informs the public of America's daunting economic disparity one bill at a time. Because money knowledge is power.

Well, my tree isn't 350 green nor the real deal that smells like forest, it's actually gold and plastic but a set of pantone christmas balls will look superb in that anyway.

Choose from Pantone 186, Pantone 286, Pantone Cool Gray 10, Pantone 18-2120, Pantone 165, Pantone 15-5519, Pantone 377, Pantone 268, Pantone 14-0848 or Pantone 672. I might just do 186.

Ty Hutchinson who managed to both be a copywriter by day and author of Chop Suey (A Darby Stansfield Thriller) by night, goes on a bit of a rant against those people who want so much, but have excuses for everything. It's pretty funny.

This person then said she hoped to write a book one day too.
I hate when people say this.

.. oh yeah, and there's something about "Make Conversations, Not Ads" in there too. See What Does 'Communiting' Mean???. Dance down his paragraph breaks to find the point:

we have marketed so much that we have killed communities...
we have marketed so much that we have harmed our customer...
we need to conduct business in a manner that enables and sustains communities...
COMMUNITING is about COMMUNICATION between people and companies that enables or sustains a COMMUNITY...

The QR code hype is reaching fever pitch now what with the QR code rooftop ads and the QR code cookies. About time really since they were invented way back in 1994 (and I put them in the same category as the cuecat - category being: why?)

Need help cracking a brief? There's actually an app for that. If you are the type who likes to flick through the usual suspects of solutions such as "sex sells" , "attack the competition" and "the mash up" then you'll love this as it has them all. But wait! There's more! You can also look at ads you've seen before and read gems from people who have better paid jobs than you about how to keep "pushing harder" and "digging deeper".

Lets close with some poetically literal brief cracking and a chuckle, shall we?

Most creative teams in advertising know that a perfect working partnership is very much like a great marriage. Finding that partner who "gets you" can be just as difficult as finding your soul mate... You need to have the same ambitions, the same work ethics, the same goals, the willingness to move (or not move) and so many others things need to 'click' for it to work. There's no match.com for creatives yet, so when teams find each other, they go pretty far in trying to stick together.

They might even get married. Meet Charli Hoffmann and Alex Otis. Two students from the Miami Ad School in Brooklyn that are "planning to take their work relationship to the next level". To top it all off, they're straight.

Jim, king of pancakes at jimspancakes, has stumbled onto a genius way of marketing pancakes to webheads. He made an AT-AT from pancakes and I predict that this image will never stop being retweeted.

Jägermeister appoints Mistress of Venice Beach, CA as Jägermeister’s agency of record in the United States. "The appointment of Mistress is a milestone decision for our United States business as we continue to build Jägermeister to the next level in America, the largest market in the world," says Michael Volke, Member, Executive Board, Mast-Jägermeister SE. "We look forward to collaborating on a complete 360° integrated advertising campaign, which will be unveiled in 2012."

Art director Michael de Pippo ( @mdepippo on twitter) has created these awesome Muppet posters, which he will due to popular demand make into real posters now. Stay tuned. First one who points out that I look like Animal when I dance gets kicked in the nuts. (It's totally true though).

Make the logo bigger is dead long live Adverve where you'll find Bill Green along with Darryl Ohrt from Brandflakes For Breakfast and Live + Uncensored Angela Natividad combining their ad-klout to make a bigger adblog.

Want to spruce up your bland Linkedin-resume? Vizualize.me to the rescue. I chose the crescendo classic theme but there are two more to pick from. Sign up and you'll have an email inviting you in your inbox within minutes. Suddenly feels like I should add all my creative freelance gigs to Linkedin so it doesn't look so sparse....

It's hilarious when you interview the badlanding Ninja behind Joelapompe.net. He won't show his face. We did our little chat with him while in Cannes 2009. In this fresh (French) JoeLaPompe interview from Paris Joe is wearing a full balaclava. Way to keep up the Ninja-tude, dude.

Here's an interesting venture spotted at laughingsquid for New Yookas who want the fun of BBQ and slippy-slides, a time-share backyard. For $50 an hour (egads!) you can specify any add-on you want, hula-hoops, popcicles, playpools or any backyard fun you would like to pitch them. This little idea of bringing the serene of the suburbs into the inner city is the brainchild of the participation agency.

The site pyrotechnik-legalisieren.de is a campaign site to legalize all kinds of crazy pyro-tech in crowds. "Respect emotions" is their tagline, and I'm sure we'll soon see a counter-campaign stating "respect other peoples limbs, ears and eyes". Personally I love anything that goes bang, boum, ka-bloooey as long as I am the one in control of the fuse or detonator, so I kinda see where these guys are coming from. Crowds and fireworks are a scary combination though, I'm amazed that I've survived 4 new years eves in Amsterdam's Nieuwmarkt which tends to go a little nuts /understatement.

You can from the pyrotechnik-legalisieren site download the pyro-tech legalize it manifest as well as posters and laster your neighborhood with.