Peacock Groove has done it again. Erik Noren’s pedestrian, er, I mean zombie killing entry (Evil Dead II track bike) has stolen the show at the NAHBS 2012. No need to slow down at those cross-walks when you have a front fork that also can slice.

Check out the amazing artwork and attention to detail, including a chain-saw chain.

Update: I interviewed Erik briefly and he said it was a major challenge to get a real chain-saw chain to work with a large front ring for power instead of an engine in the rear. In typical modest fashion he said credit goes to a chain-saw manufacturer for helping him make it work. He also said he would never actually ride with a chain-saw chain…not sure I believe that. :)

Here’s an advertisement from China, which emphasises individual freedom and innovation, based on my current favourite phone, the linux-based N9 “swipe” made by Nokia:

You may think I’m crazy
As I think everyone else is too ordinary…

I found this video as I noticed an unlocked black 64GB model can now be purchased new in the US for $500.

Nokia also has launched an “augmented reality” site, which emphasises simplicity in design and allows you to use your webcam to interact with an N9 simulation.

I am happy to announce that it has been confirmed that the U.S. Department of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has chosen a flyingpenguin slogan as their winning entry in a Security Awareness Slogan Contest: “Control, Alt, Delete Before You Leave Your Seat.”

The slogan was posted back in 2006.

Few of us are probably lucky enough to invent something as contagious as a Security-Tubby or a Barney character. Instead, we are stuck with the task of creating “fun” posters with slogans.

One of my more successful ones so far has been based on the saying “Ctrl-Alt-Del when you leave your seat”.

People tell me that no matter how rediculous they might find security slogans at first, eventually this one grows on them and they can’t help but sing it aloud when they leave the office. You know you have won over your users when they start to beg for more effective ways to comply with the “Ctrl-Alt-Del song”.

Apparently it will be used throughout the TSA and perhaps even in other departments. It already is one of my most popular (#6) blog entries of all time.

I thought I should mention it also because a Government CIO article recently suggested there was no good marketing in security awareness:

In short, our users are experiencing the same vacuum of effective messaging about security that the average person watching nothing but fast food commercials would be receiving about health.

Watching nothing but fast food commercials would be a health knowledge vacuum for the average person? Not sure I agree, although I don’t watch them so what do I know?

In any case, as I have presented in “There’s No Patch for Social Engineering“, slogans are not miracles and language is just a tool. But if users are open to communication from their IT department a little word smithing and some poetry can go a long way.