Whoever the people are in charge of marketing over at Mars Inc. for m&ms are pure genius. Their commercials generally make me happy. Here’s a bunch of commercials I feel like sharing for the friday unwind.

The Rise of Dark M&Ms

You can see the evolution over time from the “melts in your mouth, not in your hand” ad campaign and into a more “always fun” theme.

This is a classic commercial from the 80s.

From the 70s…

From the 60s.

“for swingers everwhere….”

A hilarious collection of F Minus Comics.

This one requires just the right angle.

WD-40 has a list of unofficial uses(pdf) for their product.

Discover the art of rock stacking. I’ll try this when I’m stranded somewhere. Hopefully I’ll have my camera too.

Anyone who had a Texas Instruments graphing calculator should be familiar with the fall down game.

Samurai sword mishap

Ladder fall

Big Horse

Crank calls

I live in a shoebox

Time alone with the Dell

All Dells Crash

TechTV “One of a Kind” Accident
This is a great clip from TechTV. One of my all-time favorites too.

Streaker

Reporter Falls
It’s not the fall, it’s the sounds she makes afterwards…

Fox reporter gets hit on
These concert goers are a classy bunch.

Starshine “The puzzle game that will blow your mind”… I’m up to level 14 before I got a headache.

The best thing to do with old and trash vinyl – I would definitely do this is I had any vinyl laying around. When I was growing up cassette tapes were being phased out for cds.

VLADSTUDIO – Everyone knows your desktop background is the only way to show co-workers (and laptop thieves) your inner self…. whatever. I like the desktop backgrounds here and they offer dual monitor backgrounds too (which I use with my desktop).

On the Lot: First Date – Humorous short film depicting a first date and what you’ve always wanted to say.

“and I think we’re dead”…. haha

hehe.

Chuck Norris jokes are timeless. Which is why you should check out these Chuck Norris action jeans. They “won’t bind your legs”!

I’m serious thinking about changing my answering machine to this: psychiatric war answering machine

I’m also considering doing this to one of my “windows”.

Also Top 10 Strangest Deaths and 9 things I learned about the world from anonymous stock photo models

And last but not least check out this mirrored maze game. I got frustrated after 5 minutes o_O.

My girlfriend sent me this one. What’s it like to play one of the hardest levels on Mario?

Enjoy the weekend. I’ll leave you off with Bill Wither’s “Ain’t No Sunshine”.

Escapa! This is a basic game with blocks where the goal is to move the red block around inside the black box while the blue boxes move around in ever increasing speed. The information on the page supposedly says you’re a genius if you past 18 seconds. I highly doubt this is true as the blocks move in rather predictable movements and you should be able to pass 18 seconds in 3 or 4 tries. Check it out here.

The Line Rider game is basically where you use your physics prowess to draw lines and a “line rider” rides your lines. Simple yet the possibilities are crazy. Check out this video below. At first I wasn’t too impressed then I tried out the game and realized the hours they must have spent doing this.

What those machines really do. (funny bathroom graffiti)