Sometimes you get obsessed with watching certain things on YouTube. For me, it's been surfing, parkour, sharks and live Miles Davis. Lately, though, I can't get enough of Japanese commercials. And two recent ones (new to YouTube, not to the world) caught my post-advertising eye:

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What did rising Microsoft star Steve Ballmer do to sell a new product called Microsoft Windows in 1986? As hard as it is to believe, he did this:

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Not from us. From them. Them being all the ad agencies and media buyers and, dare I say, brand storytellers out there. It's a holiday tradition in the ad world: The over-the-top holiday card. They've been discussed and highlighted. Here are a few you may have missed:

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Did you ever in your wildest fantasies imagine the Mac guy and the PC guy coming to blows? No matter: The powerful CPUs in today's computers thought about it hundreds of millions of times before you even blinked. And this is what happened:

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The holidays are a lonely time of year for some people, especially those of you who decided to eschew a vacation in favor of working this week. With the below, I salute and thank you for your dedication, your attention and your utter lack of connection with the rest of humanity.

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A lot of people are aware that if global warming continues and sea levels rise that life in New York City will be threatened. Experts predict, for instance, that it may be harder to get a cab if the sea level rises so much as 12 inches. That's only one foot. Think about it.

But there's a problem that not a lot of New Yorkers are aware of that is probably maybe bad, too: The flyover states are becoming a whole lot less flyover-y because they are all getting fat with fat people. And for this, we need a post-advertising age solution. Read on.

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In the past few years, I've gone to not a few ugly sweater parties. And I had a mustache. How are these two things related? Well, sometimes dressing in an ugly sweater/having a mustache show that you are comfortable with imperfection. With ugliness. With being yourself. You and Vince:

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If you're a long time reader of PostAdvertising.com, then you know that one of the things we advocate is eschewing traditional television advertising and creating/owning media. One of the great ways to do this—and one that we often advocate—is through YouTube, which is basically a big, long tube shaped like a "u," for those of you who don't already know.

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For some reason, ad agencies and clients get all hot for hipsters. Actually, I know the reason: It was that jerk, Malcolm Gladwell. He put them all up to this when he wrote The Tipping Point*. If you can get a handful of people in Manhattan and Brooklyn to drink your shoes or wear your beer or whatever, then you might be on to something; so says Gladwell. Check it:

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Wouldn't the world be great as a Wes Anderson film? People would wear colorful pastel outfits, have serious but playful experessions on their faces at all times and listen to lots of French music. Turns out, France is already like that, Brad Pitt is on board and Anderson himself was there to catch all the kooky action. Let's watch:

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With marketing and media on a collision course, we are seeing more and more pieces of online media that confuse us. Is this media? Is this an ad? Sometimes it's both, but a lot of times, we're not sure. Here are a few examples, the first of which I think we and the rest of the interwebz has already sussed out. Turn on your spidey sense:

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The premise: Okay, we'll admit it, old people know how to use computers now; but, they still don't know how to fully utilize the awesome power of web 2.0, right?* And they want to share pictures of their grandkids with each other, but can't send large files through emails or use Flickr, like a normal web denizen. So, what should they do?

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