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The Hipmunk chipmunk

My new favorite brand mascot — the Hipmunk chipmunk is the symbol for the online travel planning site.

The only other brand mascots that even approach this level of cuteness are the Porter Airlines raccoons.

Twitter bird shaves head, is elated with result

Twitter redesigned its bird mascot. Here is the before & after.

Click here to see a funny tweet from Milla Jovovich.

Via AdFreak

Ronald McDonald as you've never seen him

According to the youtube description, this short film was made over a weekend five years ago. It includes a sinister, zombie-like Ronald McDonald. The title is: The End of Neoliberalism, Happy Meal.

Click here to see the two-minute film.

Coming soon, Arctic Home Coke cans

Coca-Cola has often used polar bears as an icon.

The soft drink maker is doing it again.

Coke is introducing a limited-edition 1.4 billion white cans featuring polar graphics.

This time the polar bear imaging is also being used as a reminder that the bears' natural habitat is shrinking and steps have to be taken to ensure the bears' survival. To that end, Coca-Cola has already donated $2 million to the World Wildlife Fund's Polar Bear Conservation efforts.

Read more about Coca-Cola's Arctic Home promotion at The Die Line.

Click here to see the pixel-edition Coca-Cola cans.

Download Anna Wintour for free

As part of the launch of Meets Obsession, the magazine hired Yiying Lu, creator of Twitter's fail whale, to create images for an article titled, 10 Most Intriguing in Fashion. The images include QR codes that once scanned with a mobile device, will reveal a web address where you can download Ms. Lu’s images for your iPhone, iPad or desktop.

Here are two of the images Ms. Lu created.

Click here to find out how to download these two images right now.

Magically delicious St.Patrick's Day T shirt

Mixing cereal, milk and whiskey is never a good idea.

Lucky Charms leprechaun T-shirt is $16.99 each at Crazy Dog T Shirts.

A close-up of the Lucky Charms leprechaun:

Kernal Sanders

A corn-y representation of the KFC icon.

Via Ffffound

Smokey the Bear, one of my favorite spokescharacters

When I was 11, I joined the Smokey the Bear fan club. There's a badge somewhere in my parents' basement that proves it.

This was the on facade of the York Beach (Maine) Fire Department building a couple of weeks ago.

Hey, that Belgian kid's been pissing on the camel all this time and I never noticed

How did I get to be this old without ever having noticed Manneken Pis on the Camel pack?

Found at Moi Illussions

Kool-Aid Man appears in Joseph Griffith's painting commemorating the 225th anniversary of the Battle of Yorktown

Prints are available for $20 at the artist's website.

Click image to enlarge.

I got your raisins right here

Natalie Dee's vision of the Sun-maid Raisin girl. (Click image to enlarge.) See more of her wonderful work on her website.

Jack in the Box pays a visit to McDonald's

Can't decide if this is funny or disturbing.

Click image to enlarge.

Source: My Confined Space

It's a good thing the recently deceased Oscar Mayer the Third didn't live to see this

The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile crashed into someone's house in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. Read all about it HERE.

 

The Wienermobile in happier times.

Oscar Mayer may be looking for a new Wienermobile driver. If you're interested, more information is available HERE.

To read more about Oscar G. Mayer, here is his obituary.

Addendum posted 5:00 pm

Found the after picture on Gawker: