Most of you based here in the UK will have seen an Orange commercial before a movie in the cinema (not sure about other countries; I’m guessing UK can’t be the only place where they’re shown); some of them work, and some of them don’t. This latest one is part of the first group, featuring the loveable Muppets:

Via Bleeding Cool

Make sure you watch the bit after the credits:

BOB from Jacob Frey on Vimeo.

Need I say more?

I think epic and awkward is the best way to describe this:

Via Geek Are Sexy

I love the Simon’s Cat videos. They’re such a spot-on portrayal of cats, and I think every cat owner sees something of their own cat in Simon’s cat.

Yesterday I responded to a tweet from Simon’s Cat’s twitter account and managed to snag some last minute tickets to their latest book and video launch. It was great actually seeing Simon in real life and getting to hear about his experiences with the comic/videos and his cats (who sound so adorable and even more ridiculous than my own cats). And all attendees got an awesome goody bag with a signed version of the new book and lots of other Simon’s Cat goodies!

Here’s the new video “Double Trouble” featuring a new cute character:

This is AWESOME:

Wow, that’s one hell of an ad. So much detail! How many game characters did you recognize? I could list them here for you, but somebody else already did a much better job at that here. I love that they used some of the actual voice actors too.

Last weekend I volunteered at the LinkedGov HackCamp, a 2 day hackday for developers and designers to come up with some cool uses for government data. There were some awesome hacks, and overall the entire weekend was a great success.

We did however end up with a little bit too much food. For some reason our curry order included a huge bucket with over 5 liters of mint sauce (seriously, 5 liters?). Tom had the crazy idea to use that leftover sauce for a bottle rocket…

So after we wrapped up the HackCamp a small group of attendees went to a local park, to witness the launch of a mint sauce bottle rocket:

I was standing a safe distant away, so managed to stay clear from the splashing sauce, but Tom and the two camera guys (Julien and Alex) were completely covered in sauce! And from where I was standing I managed to get this awesome shot:

Here are some more shots from before and after the launch:

Wow, I’ve managed to not write anything here on my blog for 10 days. I’ve been so busy with working on my thesis that I just haven’t had the time to blog. I was planning on not updating as regularly as I used to, but I still want to do at least 3-5 short posts a week (which I should all just be able to write in a single evening).

This video came out a week ago and has already more than 1.5 million views on YouTube, so chances are you might have seen/heard of it already. Being the Disney fan I am though, I had to repost it here though!

I managed to stay awake for the Oscars again! Is it just me or does it seem to be easier nowadays to stay awake with Twitter to keep you entertained?

I was really looking forward to Anne Hathaway and James Franco as hosts (Hathaway’s mini-bit during Hugh Jackman’s opening song was awesome 2 years ago), but I wasn’t really impressed with them. Here was their opening:

There’s some funny moments in there, but overall it doesn’t feel like the big grand opening some of the best presenters had in previous years.

I did however really enjoy Hathaway’s version of On My Own, but I haven’t been able to find a video of that to share with you guys. Plus all her dresses throughout the night were gorgeous! My take: pair Anne Hathaway with Hugh Jackman as hosts next year.

There’s also this video that the Oscar YouTube channel has released with the hosts performing Grease:

Stick around, I’ll be doing some more Oscar related posts today!

Valentine’s Day is in 7 days time! Yeah, I know it tends to be a cheesy and commercial “holiday”, but that doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy it! So in the next 7 days I’ll be doing some Valentine’s Day related posts (next to the more normal posts, of course). First up, this cute video: