80s' style

Rickrolling is THE internet phenomenon that emerged at that point where people started regularly recommending pages to friends and such. When people claim a link to a video or generally a page was of relevance to the topic at hand, but in fact isn’t and thus leads you to the a video of Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up”. It’s the internet’s answer to Punk’d and even more than that. The funny thing is that you almost always succeed in rickrolling someone, because it aims at the Achilles’ heel of human nature: curiosity. Most of the times the URL provided doesn’t reveal anything about the content of what’s to pop up on the screen.

A ridiculously funny Rickrolling version and thus even more up to date in terms of popular culture is the Barackarolling or Obamarolling (depends on what terms you are with Obama himself). Have a go and rickroll your friends with Barack Obama’s rapping. A future trend analysis: I guess rapping with 80s background songs is going to be the next big thing… (Jump to watch the video and a fun comic- you can do this!)

We have been heavily discussing brands and their recognition and perception on this blog. Also I put up some Obama mania entries dealing with recent events. So why not mix it up a bit and look thru this great survey I found (before the election).

Tadaaa: A brand analysis of the presidential candidates’ brand association that was concluded using a survey by conducted Landor Associates and Penn, Schoen & Berland in the beginning of October.

Look through it, now it’s clear why people went for the Obama-Biden ticket, right?

Starbucks, BMW, Mac, Target, Google, Marriot, iPhone, iPod - I could identify with it. · Picture by Landor Associates and Penn, Schoen & Berland

If you spin this a little further and move from brands to everyday products, what would this survey be like? Animal associated with Obama: puppy. Animal associated with Palin: a moose. Now, isn’t this funny?

“We’ve got to make sure that people understand the choices that are at stake.” (Barack Obama)

Obama 2008 Presidential Campaign · photo by Barack Obama on flickr.com

With this clever quote I wish you an exciting last couple of days before an election that will make history, no matter how it turns out… So do you understand what’s at stake for you, lieber Reader?

Accidentally I changed my background to Tina Fey vs Sarah Palin the other day when reading some news page. After panicking (at least over 50% of my screen), I decided to keep it for a while to get into a christmas election mood.

It happened. Accident. Emergency. A la Patrick Wolf

America votes · by Wonderlane on flickr.com

It seems like everybody is talking about it. The US presidential election 2008. Whereas most of discussions is wrapped around whether or not you support Team John McCain or Team Barack Obama, most people do not entirely understand the election system that was first established when the Founding Fathers were around and has not changed dramatically ever after. 

When you come across with an item of the US elections you often stumble upon - yeah, let’s call it - vocabulary that Europeans are not quite familiar with. Note that the election system is quite different from what we are au courant with in Europe. 

Read this guide for basic information on the US Presidential Election.

Amidst all the studying and planning out my weekend I came across with this and I really really couldn’t help sharing. After watching the VP dabate (who took up one third of my mobile internet bandwidth) I really thought this was “cute.” Plus, did you know that roughly 80% of the people who watched the debate thought that Sarah was doing better than they thought they would after having laughed over the CBS interviews and the Saturday Night Live spoofs (The writers didn’t have to do a lot when creating the spoofs, so it doesn’t really matter what video you watch; same text; different purpose - or wait does Sarah - maybe - want to entertain us too?). Well with the expectations set soo high, you betcha, that Sarah will getcha. Betcha. She connected with me. She did.

She connected with me. With this debate scheme. Unbeatable. Like Oh My Goshhh.

Found via swissmiss via adennak.com.

The freedom to make decisions in life is something essential. It might be even so basic so that people don’t realize the real value of this human liberty unless the freedom of deciding themselves, voting for instance, is taken away from then. Please, go vote, even if you have the feeling that nothing is happening anyway (see Austria and the reelections in fall 2008).

Your voice matters, so does your vote. Thus you do, too.

Vote · Declare Yourself

Have you ever heard of an irony mark or a sarcasm mark? I recently came across with it and thought, hmmm, could be helpful…

And as you might know: The campaining for the American President is gradually getting more and more topical. So check out this ironic quote:

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.
— Alben W. Barkley