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This is by far the most amazing commercial I have ever seen. They claim there was no computer generation involved

Here is a news article about what went into making the commercial.

From The Daily Telegraph:

Six hundred and six takes it took, and if they had been forced to do a 607th it is probable, if not downright certain, that one of the film crew would have snapped and gone mad.

On the first 605 occasions something small, usually infuriatingly minute, went just slightly awry and the whole delicate arrangement was wrecked. A drop too much oil there, or here maybe one ball-bearing too many giving a fraction too much impetus to the movement. Whirr, creak, crash, the entire, card-house of consequences was a write-off and they had to start again.

Honda’s latest television advertisement, a two-minute film called “Cog”, is like a fine-lubricated line of dominoes. It begins with a transmission bearing which rolls into a synchro hub which in turn rolls into a gear wheel cog and plummets off a table on to a camshaft and pulley wheel. All the parts are from the new Honda Accord – £16,495 to you, guv’nor, or £6 million if you want to pay for the advertising campaign. And what an amazing ad campaign it is, too.

(Thanks Sheryl)

For the three people who haven’t heard of the subservient chicken before it is a site where there is a person in a chicken outfit where you can type in commands and they will do them. Here is a list of commands that it will do. The really interesting part is that it seems that Burger King is behind it.

(via The Entire Blogosphere)

Want to see your favorite actress or singer sans hair?

A gallery of sideshow posters.

As a teenager I worked in a television repair shop after school, and sometimes worked on 1940′s sets such as the RCA 630. In 1999 I sold my cable television business, was looking for something to do with my time, and decided to collect early television receivers.

At that time I was unaware that television existed before World War Two. However, shortly after deciding on my new hobby, a RCA TRK-12 appeared on Ebay. I bought it and restored it. Over the next year I met many of the collectors in the United States. Most were very willing to show me their collections, but their sets were in their basements or attics where they were difficult to see.

As my collection grew, I began to run out of space to display it. I then came up with the idea of starting a museum; so that I would have a place to put my growing collection, and so that the public could easily view the collection.

This takes the concept of hotornot.com but instead of pictures of people you can judge music. It will play a song from an independent band and you can rate them.

I listened to a few but they all sounded like they had the same singer.