Tanning can kill you.
Creative Director: Carsten Kaag

Why this ad? It is a little known fact that in Asia, at least 60 million girls are â€?missing’ due to prenatal sex selection, foeticide or neglect. Delhi has a (female) sex ratio of 865 and Mumbai, 898, (per 1,000 boys), which is much below the national ratio of 927 (per 1,000 boys). Mumbai alone has recorded a fall of 32 points in the last decade from 930 girls per 1,000 boys in 1991 to 898 girls per 1,000 boys in 2001. Advertising Agency: Bhadra Communications, Bangalore, India Art Director: Siju S Nair Copywriter: Dominic J L Satur Published: June, 2008 via E-Mail Source: (Read the full post about ‘Endangered Species (India, 2008)’…)

If it’s not your problem, it is mine. Advertising Agency: Y&R, Beirut, Lebanon Creative: Ramzy Haddad Source: www.holgerappel.com

Ever have the urge to change a headline or rewrite the text of a web site? Edit this page is a browser bookmarklet that makes any web page instantly editable. Well, kind of. Here’s how it works. Drag this bookmarklet to your bookmark toolbar. When you’re on a page you’d like to rearrange, just hit the bookmarklet and you can edit any text area.Of course, nobody else will see the edits you’ve made unless you take a screenshot and share it with the world. But in completely unrelated news we are particularly proud of the distinction Time Magazine gave us earlier this year, so we thought we’d (Read the full post about ‘Edit this page: Useless but fun bookmarklet lets you edit any web site’…)

Don’t ignore me. China has over 1.5 million underprivileged children. To help, call 020 82266673. Advertising Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, Shanghai, China Creative Director: Kevin Lee Art Directors : Ng Fan, Kevin Lee, Haibo Huang, Phoebe Liao, Stephen Zhong Copywriters: Adams Fan, Derek Huang, Raymond Yung, Andrew Lok via ibelieveinadv Source: www.holgerappel.com

Throat cancer will leave you speechless. Quit smoking. Advertising Agency: The Classic Partnership Advertising, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Creative Director / Copywriter: Darryl Koch Senior Art Director: Justus Luke Source: www.holgerappel.com

One of the great things about shopping on Amazon is that you can read through dozens, if not hundreds of user reviews. While expert and editorial reviews can give you a sense of whether an item is worth the sale price, user reviews will let you know whether you should expect it to fall apart the moment you unpack the box.But who has time to sift through hundreds of reviews when you just want someone to tell you whether you should buy this digital camera or that one? That’s where Pluribo comes in. This Firefox add-on will read through the user reviews in certain product categories and present (Read the full post about ‘Pluribo reads Amazon product reviews so you don’t have to’…)

“If you needed an organ transplant, your name would be here. Be an organ donor. Let your family know”. Silver Lion in Cannes in the category Press. Ad from the Brazilian Santa Casa de São Paulo. Advertising Agency: Y&R, São Paulo, Brazil Executive Creative Director: Tomas Lorente Creative Director: Tomas Lorente Copywriter: Marilu Rodrigues Art Director: Axel Levay/Widerson Souza Art Buyer: Monica Beretta Account Supervisor: Valeria Ordonhez Advertiser’s Supervisor: Dr. Antonio Carlos Forte Other Credits: Elaine Carvalho via osocio.org Source: www.holgerappel.com

It’s no secret that Twitter goes down on occasion. But what are you gonna do if you just neeeeed to tweet? The great minds at betaworks pondered that question as well and developed twitabit. A simple website that stores your messages and forwards them once Twitter is back up and running. Simply enter your username, password and message and you’re off. If you love Twitter so much that you haven’t jumped ship, twitabit may be that life preserver you were waiting for.Source: feeds.downloadsquad.com

Gestern Abend habe ich mir den Schädel rasiert. Schluß mit den Haaren im Waschbecken. Wie schon mehrfach geschrieben, war heute die 15. Bestrahlung und damit die letzte Bestrahlung des Schädels. Ich fragte die Schwester was mit der Maske geschehen würde. “Die können Sie mit nach Hause nehmen!”, sagte sie scherzhaft. Genau das hatte mir auch die kleine Asiatin gesagt als sie die Maske anfertigte; also habe ich die Maske mit nach Hause genommen. Was ich damit anstelle? Ich weiß es nicht, vielleicht benutze ich sie um die beiden kleinen Nachbarjungs zu erschrecken, die immer einen (Read the full post about ‘Donnerstag, 19. Juni 12.10 Uhr, 15. Bestrahlung’…)