The ad giant BBH (http://www.bartleboglehegarty.com/) just launched a new site. They’ve always been on the cutting edge of clean, unique and fun web design. Their new site, though dizzying, incorporates a cute little interactive sheep which I found similar to our Lyrek, Inc‘s (http://www.lyrek.net) seaters. It’s worth a few minutes to check out if you have some downtime on this overcast Friday.

Take a look at the Tiltviewer featured on Airtight‘s site. This is the guy that’s responsible for the new MySpace video player, completely rebuilt in AS3. The TiltViewer is quite similar to the components available at AFComponents, built (I believe) in PaperVision, but feels smoother and more natural. This isn’t to say that AFComponents‘3D Carousel and Stack Components aren’t just as awe-inspiring—keep in mind this is coming from your lowly blogger that only knows AS2—but it just seemed to be a nice, clean and fluid component.

I always thought something was missing from his original video and now I realize that I was always slightly sad that he was dancing alone. Maybe he did, too?

And, as this (too) was sponsored by Stride gum, I sorta want to see a ram head-butt him at the end and some guys in a van come and take his gum away.“A-agent?”

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Special thanks to Fischstix for this hilarious link:

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Interesting and depressingly-true article:

The Internet has brought us many joys. It’s rewritten the rules of business and pleasure.

And pain. For it allows what may have seemed like bright ideas at the time (‘let’s use it to make sure our customers have the latest software’, for example) to turn into a stinking pit of misery — usually, but by no means always, after marketing gets its fangs in.

Here are just ten of the guilty parties who try to do the impossible: to make us hate the internet and wish it had never been invented — and who very nearly succeed.