New Sim City Creator Ad

Create. Enjoy. Destroy. One of my childhood favorite video games, SimCity is back with it's latest installment SimCity Creator .

The best part about this game is that it is available for Nintendo Wii. So at the ripe age of 25, if I want to enjoy a little Sim action, I don't have to be glued to my computer. Somehow Wii just makes things less dorky and mainstream. You just might see me standing in line at Best Buy with SimCity Creator in my hand.

On a side note, the video you have watched, or will watch after reading, was done by Weiden + Kennedy up in Portland. If you think their work is good, wait util you see their site. The W+K timeline they have is quality. Shout-out to Renny Gleeson.

New Fall Extreme Sport: Golden Parachuting

Exactly Ronnie. What is that up there? That's right, it's another golden parachute for another hapless financial executive in this country. Makes me sick reading the following from the SFGate:

"Lawmakers also condemned Sullivan for urging AIG's board on March 11 to ignore the mounting loss in the unit that sold credit default swaps when issuing bonuses to 70 executives. Sullivan said he was trying to retain the company's top talent.

"Trust me, I was focusing more on them than me," he said. At the same meeting, the board approved a $15 million golden parachute for Sullivan.

"AIG officials on Tuesday said the $440,000 trip to the resort in Southern California was a reward for the firm's top insurance salespeople and was scheduled a year ago. But even the firm's former executives questioned employees for proceeding with the trip in light of the federal bailout."

Call me crazy, but when you do your job so poorly that you are losing billions of dollars, how does that equate to a $15 million departure. AAAAAAAHHHHHHH. Pisses me off so much I cannot write any more without going into a cursing tirade. You can read the full article of the bullshit practices that took place here.

FIFA '09 Is Out

FIFA '09 has been released on all formats in the U.K. and by the looks of things is a vast improvement on previous failures.

In my opinion the FIFA series has slumped dramatically as video game systems have improved. During that time, FIFA games always looked great, but the game play was utter dog excrement from a purist perspective. All you had to do was give the ball to Rooney or Ronaldo and press turbo and no one could stop you. Not so much fun. The last really good one was FIFA '99 for Nintendo 64. But that's just me.

Check out the site EA Sports has put together for the games U.K. release.

Glam Launches African-American Women's Network

Glam Media has announced that they have launched Glam Black Life, a collection of long-tail sites focused on beauty and fashion targeted to black women.

Among the 50 sites included in the new network-which Glam claims in aggregate reachs 4 million unique users-are Shake Your Beauty, Afrobella and The Fashion Bomb. To lead Glam Black Life, the company has tapped current Glam Beauty Editor India-Jewel Jackson to oversee all original editorial content, while Tamera Reynolds, formerly of Sahara Media’s Honey Magazine, will serve as director of the network. In addition, former BET director of national sales Asten Morgan Jr. will head up national sales efforts for new venture.

Glam, which was recently named to AdweekMedia’s Digital Hot List, has landed Lexus as Glam Black Life’s initial sponsor. The auto company will roll out its Luxuryawaits.com campaign this October.

35 Minutes of Mayhem

The ULTIMATE COMPILATION!!!
by phillyblacklite

Thanks to YourDailyMedia and WithLeather I bring to you a 35 min video of the incredibly bored, incredibly stupid and just incredibly un-lucky (like the little baby @ 24:05 who gets snippered by the cat) individuals of the world. It's thanks to about 90% of the people in this video that us normal people watch and say, "Well I'll be sure to never do that."

There's even a couple of office tirades @ 9:30 in. Classy mental blow-ups. But the Steven Gerrard snub by the little Chelsea fan @ 15:53 takes the cake for me. Well played by the diminutive Blues supporter. I bet John Terry put him up to it.

The rest of the people in this video are idiots. But sometimes it's just fun to watch idiots do dumb things. I mean, a horse takes a dump on a woman's head @ 22:45. Hey lady, maybe you shouldn't crawl around down there. Lessoned learned I say.

ESPN Broadens Reach In Mexico, Europe

ESPN has announced its plans to increase its brand visibility in Mexico and Europe starting February 1, 2009. ESPN plans on executing this strategy through its North American Sports Network, or NASN.

NASN, which ESPN bought last year, is currently in 14 million European homes and 3 million in the Middle East. NASN currently carries the Super Bowl in several countries, including Germany and France. The plan is for NASN to take on the ESPN America moniker which will expand ESPN’s brand to a variety of different countries.

ESPN is also expanding brand awareness through credit cards in other countries. Currently they are part of a joint venture to launch a credit card in Mexico, with the Santander ESPN credit card. The card will offer customers the opportunity to earn points to be used for tickets to the X Games Mexico and the ESPY Awards.

While I'm At It, Another Cool Radiohead Video

Here is the "Thumbs Down Version" for Radiohead's "Jigsaw Falling Into Place". I'm not sure how they did it but I have to assume it has something to do with those snazzie cameras attached to those bike helmets. Check it out.

Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place (thumbs down version)