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Carvel Ice Cream Advergame Might Get the Kids Grounded "Honey, what are you doing in there? You've been on the computer all afternoon." "Playing CookiePussTeroids!" ".......What was that?" "Mo-om, I'm saving Cookie Puss from getting a faceful of cone!" If that's not sufficiently crash-worthy, "CookiePussTeroids" is also spelled wrong. A-B Ditches Energy Bevs, Sleepers Solicited, IDA Seeks Airwave Rejects - It Didn't Air is another awards show that aspires to tickle the creative babies that were too ugly or flawed to make it into waking life. Strictly for radio ads -- and only $75 to enter!! - Anheuser-Busch is going to stop selling energy drinks. Which is probably wise, because tipsy + hyper = high likelihood of Death by Freak Accident. Typically on a train track. - Mega-Bang turns bald, bearded, nearsighted men into repetitive sex gods. Also, check out his bathrobe insignia. It's a phallus. With an orbit. - Mattress Firm is looking for the most sleepless person in America. The winner gets a new mattress and a free consultation from a shrink -- er, sleep expert. To enter, write an essay or submit a video, though I think the latter's preferred because that's what all the cool kids do. Become a Cop -- or Even a Lawyer! -- All with a Flip of that Burger Denver-based Cactus put together this promotional video for Westwood College, a vocational school for, you know, vocations. Way better than those crap Western Career College ads (whose only legacy is this drunk guy). And if you find it tough to take degree recommendations from a guy in a diner uniform, sit tight: he changes clothes. More creative here. One tagline we liked: "Go from making a living to MAKING A LIFE." Smooooth. Duracell Salutes the Everyday Obvious New Media Strategies just debriefed us on Museum of the Obvious, a campaign that showcases obvious inventions. I dig the virtual museum, but the online videos are way too long. This might be because New Media Strategies believes that "on the internet, speed kills." (Really?) Nice use of the Duracell theme music, though. See: o Sliced Bread MySpace: Movin' On Up, With Love from Cartier With help from TEQUILA, Cartier built a MySpace page to showcase its latest collection, "Love by Cartier." "How far would you go for love?" This question appears across creative and in artist interviews. For a coveted Love bracelet, expect to go pretty far: $1000 or more. Get this: you have to fill out a form to get any pricing information. Tracks come courtesy of Lou Reed, Grand National and Marion Cotillard, among others. Download 'em at the Cartier Love website. I tried, but didn't like the process. The form is too much work -- Cartier likes everything just so -- and the site controls the download. So I missed the tiny "33%" at the bottom of the screen and closed the browser. Way to go. Cartier's MySpace goes live in the US, UK, France, Hong Kong, Japan, Italy, Switzerland, Spain and China. Here's to hoping users feel more passionate about 18k-gold love than they do about credit card debt. Baby, Your Touch Gives Me Melanoma. Oh, Wait. That's Just a Tattoo Earlier we explored messages that only appear in photographs. But hey, how about touch-sensitive tattoos or jewelry that interacts with your body? All part and parcel of Philips' strange and suggestive Design Probes subsite, which experiments with new ways of wedding life to technology. Though I agree with Thought Gadget when he argues this video doesn't really emphasize the many possibilities of touch-sensitive tats. Naked teens on a fondle-spree? There's a tired idea. Wawa Gets Groovy With HoagieFest After listening to this jingle and the rest of the tunes over at the Archer Group-created HoagieFest site for convenience store chain Wawa, you absolutely will not be able to get them out of your head. And, after all, isn't that the point? The agency hired jingle writer Parry Gripp to create the songs which are also available as ringtones and, in acknowledgment of the many already existing Wawa loyalist sites, embeddable MySpace and Facebook sound files. It's all so very....groovy in a sort of squeaky clean way. Newsflash! New, 100 Percent Approved Work for JCPenney! Despite this week's drama over the Saatchi & Saatchi - "created" faux commercial for JCPenney, Grow Interactive, working with Saatchi & Saatchi double assures this new work for the retailer is, yes, APPROVED BY THE CLIENT! Now that that's out of the way, take a look at Rock Your Look, a new website developed as a sort of karaoke contest which awards the winner a trip to the stage at this year's Teen Choice Awards. It Ain't Police Academy, But the Hijinks Could Cost You Your Soul! The three consciously-casual males at left aren't new contenders for The Bachelorette. They're competitors in Priest Academy, a French web-based reality show brought to you by the humble servants of the Besancon diocese. A source in France said the premise behind Priest Academy is to encourage more men to become priests because there's apparently a shortage. Adrants reader Olivier Mermet, who sent us the link, exclaimed, "And do you want to know the worst about it? This is F***in' true stuff!!" Indeed. The first episode, which debuted on June 12, generated 90,000 views. For more social media fun and games with your immortal homeboy Jesus, check out the Pope blog. And hey, it's never too late to score one of those rad WWJD wristbands. In an xD RS, Lava Doesn't Even Sizzle To promote yet another limited edition vehicle, the xD RS, Scion went all Hot Lava. The subsite -- produced by SolutionSet -- features a bubbling volcano with a gray xD RS in the foreground; an explosion of lava makes it that wild red-orange color we love so much. I find the bubbling noises comforting. They remind me of this one time we cooked a rabbit alive, invented some nifty rhymes, and put a curse on Bob Dole. See print variant with vehicle specs. Beyond magazines and the 'net, expect to see "smoking" billboards, and street teams clad in flameproof uniforms, all from the fancy folk at ATTIK. And while you contemplate getting an xD RS before all 2000 run out, see previous efforts for the limited edition xB Series 5 and Scion tC. 
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