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You might know about Rory&Dave, a creative team from Mother NY who moved out to San Francisco and Mekanism. Anyway they've produced this music video for New York poppers Valley Lodge, which consists mostly of butt-on-butt awkwardness between naked men posing as furniture. Consider this your NSFW warning.

Valley Lodge "All of My Loving" from Valley Lodge on Vimeo.

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PopTarts & Wine : Vincent Kartheiser from Ralph Arend on Vimeo.

Vincent Kartheiser is from Minnesota. He's also the guy who plays Pete Campbell on AMC's 'Mad Men'. Pop Tarts & Wine interviewed him in a clothing shop, and reminded him that he's a racist (Kartheiser was in the kid-flick 'Indian in the Cupboard' which all children everywhere know and love. But no one knew Kartheiser was in't.

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For about a week Google has been celebrating Sesame Street's 40th anniversary by offering a different logo each day, paying homage to a different prominent character daily. Today's includes the entire main gang, and it makes you happy.

Via Google

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PACT is a company that makes underwear. But this is no ordinary naughty-part-covering-company — PACT's products are organic and therefore good for our ever-polluted world. We aren't sure what to think of this ad, other than 'yah, semi-nude people!' But that's not much. Oh, semi-nude = semi-NSFW.

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Starting at just $50k per year, Google's latest tool aims to turn online shopping up a notch — to the extent that they're calling it an alternative to advertising. Why? Because when it comes to online shopping, search results are (apparently) more likely to lead to a sale.

Google's Commerce Search marries paid search to your site, making your customers' product searching more effective. It's trackable with Google Analytics, meaning retailers can stay up on which products are, say, getting traffic but not sales.

via Business Insider

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The douche bag is a man of great prowess, if only in his own mind, and over the last few years he has been maligned by his peers for just being himself. Well, no longer. You see, a 'douche bag' is actually a cleansing device, and that's how douche bags everywhere (ourselves included) want you to think of them. Us. Like mints.

Because at the end of the day aren't we all coke-snorting, pink-shirt-wearing, breast-grabbing jerk offs? No, no we aren't, but some of us are. And we must stick together. So, before you click play make sure to pop your collar a little higher and stick your chest out a bit further. But seriously, that coke habit could be bad long term.

Via Youtube

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Last month's Chris Farley and David Spade DirectTV spot raised a few eyebrows, mostly because the former has been dead for like over a decade.

And now there's a group of people who are taking this idea and running with it. See here the rebirth of Heath Ledger, Jack Kennedy and, you knew it was coming, Jesus (Christ).

Via YouTube

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Wired.com provides a nice little expose on the influx of teeth-whitening ads that are clogging Google, MSN and Yahoo like plaque.

The article focuses specifically on a Greek firm called Farend Services, which is doing business in the States as dazzlesmile LLC dazzlesmilepro.com. While promising to class up your chops at a low price, a Salt Lake City-based consumer protection division is alleging that Farend is "trapping customers with fine print on a network of fake blogs that signs them up for an expensive subscription to the tooth-whitening products rather than the low-cost or free single unit they think they're ordering."

A poster on Ripoffreport.com offers their Farend experience: "I saw a promotion for a professional teeth whitener under the name of DentaWhite. The promo indicated that you could get a 'free' sample for just shipping costs ($3.50). The surprise comes when you get charged for $92.37 for a continuing commitment. The 'terms' are hidden from the customer and a link to those terms is well below the place you click submit for your initial 'sample' order."

With the Better Business Bureau now involved in the legal skirmish, Dazzlesmile CEO Roger LeFevre is now placing blame squarely on the company's agency Epic Advertising, telling Wired.com that he was "duped" by "deceptive language" that was engineered without him knowing. Now that Microsoft and Yahoo could face some embarrassment with this fiasco as the article points out, maybe the latter's CEO Carol Bartz needs to amp up her crusade against "low quality" ads.

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Guess eMarketer senior analyst David Hallerman isn't a modern-day Nostradamus after all. After predicting last year that US internet ad spend would increase to $25.7 billion in '09 with an 8.9% growth rate, then saying earlier this year that the tally was closer to $24.5 billion, eMarketer has once again revised its numbers.

The industry research trade now actually predicts a 2.9% drop to $22.8 billion due to factors including the IAB/PricewaterhouseCoopers first-half 2009 results, Google's earnings and the leading 100 US advertisers survey published by AdAge. Emarketer does figure though that moderate growth will once again take effect in 2010 and 2011.

Hallerman explains in a statement, "When you consider that the size of the online market means moderate growth rates now represent substantial additional dollars, this lesser growth--as compared with the 2003 to 2007 period--is to be expected."

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Earlier today, AllThingsD's Peter Kafka and PRNewser's Joe Ciarallo received the same invitation to ad:tech New York, offering some freebies in exchange for coverage.

The offer asked for "no less that 3 posts" about the event, either on Twitter, Facebook or the blog. Nice to know that Twitter and Facebook are as valuable a blog post, despite being loads easier to accomplish. They offer some suggestions for post topics, like "interesting sessions at the event."

"Is my work nearly worthless? Or pretty valuable?" asks Kafka of the offer. "Three posts is a little less than a day’s work for me. ad:tech says that's worth either $35 (a free expo pass) or up to $558 (35 percent of the highest price for an ad:tech conference pass). That's a big swing!"

Ciarallo (PRNewser is our sibling, mind you) found out that the email came not from ad:tech or their PR firm, Edelman. Rather it was from a third party, who he did not name, but had helped "ad:tech with a few specific things." What else, one wonders.

"We point this out not only because it's bad practice, but it seems to be on the rise," writes Ciarallo. "The number of emails we receive that are similar to this one have been increasing."

See the email, here.

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