Can’t decide who to vote for?
Let the sodas decide!
Jones Soda’s Campaign Cola 2008 is “the one and only website where you can vote for your candidate by purchasing their bottle of cola, regardless of age or residency”.
Flavors include Barack’s Yes We Can Cola, McCain’s Pure McCain Cola, and Hillary’s Capitol Hillary Cola (though now it’s probably more appropriately named Congratulatory Cola).
Every bottle counts, so make sure to drink up to your favorite candidate, and let your opinion be refreshing.
[Jones Soda - Campaign Cola 2008]
[Via: Serious Eats]
Naked & Angry is skinnyCorp’s latest venture (the guys behind Threadless) and they’re hoping to take Threadless’ success and expand it into other areas of design.
Their stated goal of Naked & Angry is “to create high quality products from patterns submitted and chosen by the brand’s audience”.
Anyone can come to Naked & Angry and submit a pattern design to be voted on by other Naked & Angry users. The design will be scored for 14 days at which time it will be given a final score. The highest scoring designs will be manufactured and products will be created inspired by the patterns. The winners will receive a $750 cash prize and 1 free Naked & Angry item.
Their first series of objects was a set of silk neckties, and they’ve now moved on to hand screened wallcoverings, so you can see that the product line is going to be diverse. Apparently their plans include everything from ties and tops to pillows and belts to socks and sweaters to wallpaper, so if you can put a pattern on it, Naked & Angry will turn it into a competition.
New patterns will be chosen every season, and the goal is 5-15 various new items at a time.
Will Naked & Angry ever equal the success of Threadless?
My guess would be no, because I can’t imagine that the market for neckties and wallpaper is nearly as big as the market for t-shirts, but regardless, it seems like a great idea, and a great place to check out if you’re looking for something really unique with a handmade touch.
[Naked & Angry]
Popdeck is “the first design community just for skateboarders”.
Like Threadless, Popdeck lets designers upload their designs to the site, and then users can vote on them to select the winners. Unlike Threadless, winning designs end up becoming limited edition skateboard decks that probably aren’t as comfortable to wear as a t-shirt would be.
Each deck is hand numbered, and if you’re going to buy a board anyways, I don’t see why you wouldn’t want one that looks good and isn’t owned by every kid on the block.
[Popdeck]
Faviconize is a favicon directory that wants to list the best favicons from around the Internet. (And with over 11,500 already, they’re well on their way.)
The favicon is an often overlooked and unfortunately under utilized tool. It’s the little icon/logo in your address bar that gives you a quick and visual differentiator between each site and the next, and it also separates out your bookmarks beyond just text.
Though it’s such a small piece of a website’s overall look and feel, it’s a large part of the functionality of a site, and especially if you want to bookmark that site and return later, which is why Faviconize celebrates each little icon as if it was a little piece of art.
You can favorite them, vote on them, and even sort them by color and rating, which means Faviconize covers just about everything you could ever want to do with a favicon. (And then some.)
[Faviconize]
Though it’s still in private beta mode, Mod My Life has some definite possibility.
Described as “a unique way to view and interact with the world. It’s kind of like ‘Second Life’ mapped back onto the real world.”
Basically, mods are suggestions for future actions. (Example: Bargain for a half-price Big Mac.) Users submit mods, and they’re added to the mod pool, where users can vote for mods that they like, and flag mods that they don’t. The more votes that a mod receives, the more likely it is that it will be promoted to the mod finals.
Modstars are the ones who perform the mods. The users determine their actions via the mod voting system, and the Modstar must do what the users say. Once he has finished one mod, the users can choose the next from among the finals, and it starts all over again.
To keep things really interesting, all of the mods are performed live (give or take the few seconds used to keep the video smooth).Video is streamed straight to the users, allowing you watch in real time as the Modstar performs each mod.
Sound like your scene? Then head on over to Mod My Life and sign up for the private beta, because we all need a bit more control.
[Mod My Life]
The entries for Mimoco’s Vimobot Design Contest are in, and only the top ten remain.
It’s a vote-off to pick the winner, and all ten designs are top notch, so head on over and voice your opinion, because it’s going to be a close one.
[Mimoco - Vimobot Design Competition]
[Via: Josh Spear]
Dare Junkies mixes a little bit of the YouTube formula with a little bit of the Jackass formula and aims to find out what happens. “Challenges” are posted on the site, with everything from streaking to kissing strangers, and anyone can accept a challenge and video themselves doing what the challenge requires. Then, each month, the top ten videos, as voted upon by the users, will split up a cash prize of $5-10,000. Some of the examples posted already are mildly amusing, so it’ll be interesting to see what gets submitted over the course of time. Regardless of quality though, it should be good for at least a few laughs, so check it out.
[Dare Junkies]
[Via: Mashable]
With today being Election Day (insert obligatory don’t forget to vote comment), there’s sure to be a bombardment of information regarding everything related to voting floating around the web. One of the more interesting takes on Election Day that I found is on the Freakonomics Blog. According to many economists, voting is an irrational action; one that exacts a cost but rarely gives a payoff. Voter turnout continues to fall, and the debate continues to rage about how to increase it. Some ideas include paying people to vote (lotto vote stubs), making voting mandatory, and eliminating the pre-election poll. Those all sound fine and dandy, but I think the real way to increase voter turnout would be to get candidates that the voters actually care about, instead of the current run of vanilla flavored clones. Sadly, these elections will probably be no different, and a few people will vote to elect a few puppets to keep this great nation running. All I’m asking for is a little Rocky Road.
[Freakonomics Blog - Election Day]
