Zwinky Has A Party, Others Label It Spyware

While our Zwinky friends are out with a new commercial for their tween-focused avatars and online chat world, several YouTubers have created videos advising people to beware of Zwinky and its toolbar claiming the installation dumps spyware on one's computer.

Denver Gets Ego, Canada Goes Social, Merv Griffin Dies, Caveman Loses

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- The Denver Egoist hopes to "promote creative growth in Denver" while at the same time admitting Denver is "conceptually stunted."

- Muchmor Media, an independent Canadian web publisher, has launched mymuchmor.com a social network for naturalized Canadians and the 270,000 newcomers who arrive in Canada every year.

- Cynopsis reports Merv Griffin, creator and producer of game show hits Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, died yesterday. He was 82.

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That Sunsilk Hair Flip Could Get You Into Trouble

We...well, I...have always wondered why women with long hair seem to find some sort of enjoyment in flailing their hair about as if it's some sort of ancient rock launching sling, Apparently, as illustrated in this Sunsilk Hairapy commercial, it's a sport that can get you into trouble. It seems gorgeous, full hair comes with responsibilities.

Part of an ongoing campaign, the spot was created by JWT New York and produced by Identity.

UPDATE: We thought we had seen this before.

AAF Diversity Awards Held During Advertising Week

On Wednesday, September 26, 2007, Business Development Institute and the American Advertising Federation will host the 2007 Diversity Achievement and Mosaic Awards & Forum which will "explore the multicultural challenges we face as an industry while we discuss successful strategies with leading advertisers, agencies and media companies." Check out the details here.

kwp!: Outset Ad Jobs Ain't Glamorous; Why Lie?

A friend from Down Under sent us a couple of ads for firm kwp!, which, perhaps frustrated with the self-entitled glamazons who came a-knocking for ground-floor opportunities, decided to take a more, uh, straightforward approach.

This classified, for instance, spouts, "Help make ads. And coffee too."

To the left: "If you think this job is crap, wait 'til you see the pay." This version quickly ends, "Apply now, because chances are no-one else will."

Nice, kwp!. No one can say you didn't warn them.

Playing gofer does wonders for your ambition. Having had to fetch our fair shares of coffee and muffins, every new day only made us hungrier for the moment we could send our own interns' asses all over town for the one chocolate croissant left in a 30-mile radius at 2:30 in the afternoon.

Nothing makes a pastry taste better than the sweet smell of fear.

Julie Roehm, Along with Other Time-Wasting Ad People, Get All Friendy on Facebook

We might have a lead on where all those old Facebookers are suddenly coming from. Advertising Age reports that marketers, sensing the hype, are joining the Facebook bandwagon in droves.

These include Julie Roehm, who calls Facebook "a terrific networking site that has a social bent, which makes it more fun than businesslike."

Roehm is using the service to connect with "young family members" according to Facebook, while other marketing gurus are taking advantage of said "social bent" to demonstrate that they too have personalities - joining political parties, posting vids and sharing useless information in real-time via the status feature.

Ad Age's Steve Rubel, for example, is "enjoying a light frappucino."

We played with the thought of trashing all these people but unfortunately we're on it too, and practically log on compulsively to see if anyone has SuperPoked us in the last 8-10 minutes.

P&G: Whiter, Brighter Clothes Make Good in a Shipwreck

Witness here the unnecessary loss of a whole minute.

Duller than dishwater, man. Put together for P&G by Leo Burnett, Puerto Rico.