“People who remember when tobacco advertising was a prominent part of the media landscape — and others who recall what they learned in Marketing 101 — probably recollect that actors like Barbara Stanwyck and athletes like Mickey Mantle routinely endorsed cigarettes.” Read When Doctors, and Even Santa, Endorsed Tobacco.

I’m digging the wheatpastes of Vancouver based artist The Dark. He has some cool work to scan posted on his Flickr.

“Give Hieronymus Bosch a Mac Pro with two 3.2-GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors and 32 gigs of RAM, unfettered Internet access — and some electricity — and you have Case Simmons and Andrew Burke’s You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth.” Hit up Wired, and check out Assembling Internet Images Into a Garden of Webly Delights. Amazing!

I could be wrong, but does this Forbes article not reinforce Haddow’s opinion?

On the SMS front, Vancouver based Tagga is about as sweet as vanilla ice cream doused in maple syrup. The application “allows anyone to create instant SMS and Mobile Sites so that you can interact, sell to, or simply communicate with mobile users. Promote your band, your house for sale, your business, organize your sports team, club, events… anything!”

In music, Radiohead Launches Easier, Less Expensive Remix Contest and here’s a look at Six New Directors Who Are Making Music Video Cool Again.

A year ago, a leading network/Telco exec advised me that Twitter would be dead in a year. Since, hundreds of applications for the simple, open-source platform have been developed. Here’s 140+.

On the wheels, I’m really digging spinning jams released on Fort Knox Five label. Check out their MySpace.