Friday bits

A few entertainments for your weekend enjoyment...

• A very amusing newspaper ad that presents itself as a handy sort of new media. (Not sure it's really an Apple parody, but the feeling is similar.)
  
  
• The Obameter: keeping track of how many of his campaign promises Obama is keeping (or at least trying to). Actually a pretty positive showing this far.
  (via rc3.org)
  
  
• Simultaneously grim and amusing: a hand-crank machine that lets anybody earn minimum wage. Just keep cranking!!