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My kind of accountant! Every accountant I know swears by the powers of Excel. But not every accountant can harness that power as beautifully as Cary Walkin, an accountant from Canada. Walkin made a full RPG game inside Excel. As in you can use Excel to actually have fun. The game, called Arena.Xlsm, can be downloaded here.

This is so cool!

Nearly half, 47 percent, of tablet users say they engage with advertisements more than once a week. That's according to a recent report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau and its Mobile Marketing Center of Excellence. On the smartphone side, 25 percent of users said they have the same weekly engagement. Following ad engagement, 80 percent of smartphone users and 89 percent of tablet users take action, said the report. The "Mobile's Role in the Consumer's Media Day" report studied behaviors on both types of devices, finding each used devices in different ways.

Shopping cart design

Pretty clever. Not sure what the brand message is.

starbucks

Excellent deck from Google on social networking from the consumer perspective - how the tools are used.

John Mayer released an AR/3D music video

Hunch has an interesting chart up, comparing the interests of self-identified Mac and PC users who fill out their Hunch site profiles. The average Mac user is younger, more liberal, more urban, more educated, and more early-adopty. They are also much more likely to have excellent taste in websites.