Feel like you're missing out on too many commercials because modern technology makes ads easy to skip over? Then immerse yourself in the stunning array of corporate logos at The History of Branding ( www.historyofbranding.com/ ). After being dazzled by all the familiar shapes and colours, you can read about each design's history, or you may have the urge to go out and do some shopping.
There’s no end to the number of snippets of the outside world that get onto the Net and flourish in strange ways. Take You’re the Man Now, Dog (www.ytmnd.com/), which started out as one guy’s chintzy animation done to an audio loop of a bit of Sean Connery dialogue from Finding Forrester. After viewing the clip, other people started doing their own sampling and parodying using loops, and now there are about 400,000 YTMNDs (as they’re known) available for viewing on the site. It’s practically a festival.
