Love Letters to the Future

Love Letters to the Future is an interactive website that encourages people to send a love letter to the future, asking the question “what would you say to your great grandchild?” Once you’ve read other people’s letters you can can vote for favourites or upload your own.
Inevitably there are a lot of letters that imagine [...]

Plain English

Simply Understand is a plain-speaking website run by Corinne Pritchard that aims to simplify the things that shouldn’t be complicated in the first place, such as: “Government stuff, legal stuff, money stuff.”
She’s helpfully translated 19 documents (to date), such as the swine flu leaflet and the Home Office Consultation on internet privacy into ‘plainer English”. [...]

The Boneyard Aircraft Cemetery

Beautiful photograph of an airplane cemetery can be seen courtesy of Google Earth in The Telegraph.  The Davis-Monthan Air Force Base is in Tuscon, Arizona and its four square miles are populated with partially dismantled or decommissioned aircraft, which are sometimes recycled and sometimes restored and sold on. Read more.
Via @richpayne88

CableFAX’s Best Websites 2010 – Part II: Blogs

CableFAX’s Best of the Web awards ceremony is being held in NYC on 28th April 2010. All commissioners now want to know what the multiplatform/360 degree content will be for any idea you pitch, but it can be hard to think beyond the standard programme website content of cast photos and biogs. In the second part of this mini-series we’re looking at the nominations for best programme blogs. Explore the links and see if you can find some inspiration to help you develop your own ideas.

Click through to read more. (Photo by Niffty.. CC BY-2.0)

Get a Great Boss

Get a Great Boss is a recruitment website that aims to match job seekers with bosses who have been assessed as having the kind of management skills that make going into work every day a joy. Key skills that are deemed essential in a Great Boss include: character and personality; strategic thinking; support and treatment [...]

The Twitter Times

You might be au fait with Twitter but did you know you could generate your own newspaper via Twitter? The Guardian explains how – The Twitter Tim.es collates blog posts and news items from your Twitter connections into an online ‘newspaper’ that is updated every 30 minutes. Content is displayed according to recency of tweeting [...]

ChatRoulette

So here’s the latest hot social networking trend that you probably shouldn’t try out at work: Chatroulette. It’s like extreme internet form of speed-dating, where clicking on the link suddenly links you up via video to one of the thousands of people from around the world who are online at any time. The idea is [...]

Wrangler Blue Bell Interactive Ad

This Wrangler Blue Bell clothing ad has to be the funnest interactive ad in a long time – especially for the ladies (who can indulge in power and control and voyeuristic fantasies for hours on end)…
Rip some clothes off here.

MTV’s The Buried Life Things You Want to Do Before You Die Marketing Campaign.

MTV’s This Buried Life is currently airing in the USA. It features four guys who are living their lives as if they don’t have long left by ticking of 100 things they want to do before they die – and are helping other people achieve their dreams along the way.  They’ve already ticked sleeping in [...]

How to Live Happily Ever After

Herbert (104 yrs-old) and Zelmyra (102 yrs-old) have been married for 86 years (give or take a couple of months) and will be sharing their tips for marital harmony via Twitter on Valentine’s Day. If you want the benefit of their substantial hindsight, send them a question via @longestmarried (by 12th February, 2010) and they [...]