Link Round-Up: Marketing Ventures

Things corporate and marketingish:

• Via Metafilter,
  this is a clever, disruptive marketing campaign from Volvo. It’s a very convincing
  faux documentary about how 32 families in a small Swedish town buy the same
  Volvo on the same day. Download the Quicktime
  or WMV
  version, then read
  about the debunking.
• One of my clients runs this interesting project in Ireland: foneblog.ie.
  I particularly like this study
  of employee tattoos at a cell phone shop.
• A colleague of mine
  who is an excellent illustrator is now working on this
  Vancouver restaurant site.
• Sergey Brin on the
  state of Google.
• Via Engagdet,
  we find the ludicrous-looking (and sounding) Nostromo
  N52. Is it a game controller or a disciplinary device? (Is it named after
  the ship from Alien?)

Bonus, unrelated link: This
gorgeous online clock, which features animaed GIFs of each second being
written and erased.