Hill+Knowlton Strategies

Hey! Look! I’m back. It’s been a long time, webmongs, and I’ve missed you. You especially (but you less so). In last week’s sadly abandoned draft of webcurios (IT screwups and vile, filthy work intervened) I spent a few lines wittering on about how we were now – let’s travel back in time 7 days and see EXACTLY what I was thinking….

*insert wavy flashback lines here*

Everything is blue. Apart from those bits that are yellow. Yes, webmongs, we (well, those of us living in Dave’s Britain – it’s his country, now, and we should be grateful that he’s letting us stay in it. For the moment. Until all the background checks are complete) are having to come to terms with a society in which things are STRANGE and DIFFERENT, and where this image is now permanently burnt onto my retinas:

Just imagine their wedding night. IMAGINE.

*repeat wavy flashback lines as we return to the present*

Wow, I feel like Sam Beckett. No, not that one. This one. He’s loads better (parenthetically, how much would I like Sam to come along and take over my life for a few days right now? OH BOY).

Anyway, a week is a short time in politics, and, frankly, The Cleggeron is passe – ALL HAIL OUR ONE-EYED OLYMPIAN OVERLORDS:

On reflection, Wenlock appears to be excreting rainbows in this image

Now, in the interests of full disclosure I need to point out that my lovable employers are one of the agencies contracted by 2012. Having said that, we had nothing to do with the mascots, so I feel fairly able to speak frankly on them. I think they’re brilliant, in part due to their uncanny resemblance to this long-forgotten purple despot from videogames past:

Less cuddly, on balance

As you’d expect, reaction to the mascots has been…mixed – regardless of your opinion, though, this photoshop thread on B3ta is genius – check it out.

Anyway, I’m absolutely buggered for time this week so enough of this frippery and onwards with the links and ting.

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It’s hard to know where to start this week. THERE HAS SIMPLY BEEN SO MUCH HAPPENING. Frankly, though, it probably doesn’t matter what I write here (yes, I know that it never matters, but indulge me) given the fact that The Rapture is almost certainly nearly upon us. Look at the evidence – volcanoes, strange lights in the sky, Nick ‘Casanova’ Clegg now a shoo-in at No.10 after proving himself the least robotic and inhuman of our three potential leaders on TV last night…the end times are coming. Frankly it’s only a matter of moments before the skies are filled with smug Christians all laughing and pointing as they are raised up to heaven to watch the rest of us boil in fiery eternal torment (obviously there is NOTHING remotely un-Christian about this image). With that in mind we might as well enjoy our last moments, and what better way to do that than to waste the final precious minutes of life remaining to us by staring catatonically at a computer screen and ‘enjoying’ this week’s roundup of ephemeral rubbish that couldn’t be any less consequential? But before we get started, an amazing photo of a volcano (no, not this one) from the most amazing man on Twitter, @Astro_Soichi:

Two lakes inside a volcano, taken from space. Yes, SPACE.

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