Cool Beans

1. Commas are important. The North Miami Beach Police Department learned this the hard way when they ran a billboard that said: "Say NO to Drugs from the NMB Police D.A.R.E Officers". Yes, Officer, I will only accept drugs from trusted crack dealers.

2. www.dontclick.it Try it out. You'll like it. Or you'll hate it.

3. "No rubba, no hubba hubba"- the tagline for a new New Zealand safe sex campaign. The commercial is priceless/disturbing/funny/i-can't-decide. Certainly, er, unique.

4. Forty percent (40%) of kids 'tweens ages 12-14 own cell phones.

5. McDonald's hired P. Diddy, Russell Simmons, and Tommy Hilfiger to redesign their uniforms. They want their employees to think of their work gear as cool and wear it around town, even when they aren't asking if you'd like fries with that.

6. Elvis is in the conference room. In post-it notes. I love ad agencies. (For those of you that don't know, ad agencies have some of the most unique and sexy offices. This is Capstrat's conference room.)

7. Concept of MTV airing Live 8: cool. MTV's actual broadcast of Live 8: not cool. MTV making it up to audiences by 1) posting video of all performance onlines, free for download, and 2) re-airing Live 8 (sans commercials and VJs this time around) this Saturday: very cool.

8. And just because I've always wanted to break a story before CNN.com... Apparently Rehnquist is retiring tonight in the next day or two.