Our weekly wrap of good things, funny things, weird things and other things seen on the intertubes.

There are few things more annoying than sitting at a bar with someone who seems more interested in playing with their phone than in interacting with an actual human across the table. Thankfully, Salve Jorge Bar has come up with a clever way to pry phones away from its patrons: ‘The Offline Glass’.

As the illustration above demonstrates, it seems The New Zealand Herald has become a bit formulaic with its photography – so much so that a new(ish) Tumblr blog has sprung up to seize the frowny-faced opportunity for laughs.

New Zealand loves a good weather event. And Wellington felt the full force of natu… Hang on a minute, it seems as though the mainstream media has neglected to tell the people that the city was actually ‘attacked by a ravenous yellow goat’. Now that would make for a great Japanese monster movie.

There’s crazy and then there’s John McAfee crazy. The millionaire founder of McAfee Antivirus gives the world’s craziest how to video on uninstalling the software that long ago made him crazy rich (keyword being crazy).

BNZ Bank is putting the call out for New Zealand’s best short story writers, with a Facebook app that turns prose into art.

He’s been on the wall for Daikin, he’s been on a bike for Rexona, he’s been in a video with his dad for Adidas, and he’s been in his undies for Jockey, but brands just can’t get enough of the commercial dream that is Dan Carter, so now he is trying to keep up with a working mum in a new spot for Healtheries.

Orcon has released an app for iOS and Android (developed by Kiwi dev shop Sush) which lets its users take their homes phones with them, where ever they are in the world.

Fisher & Paykel has just kicked off the global launch of 70 new locally-designed products with a roadshow in New Zealand and one of its first TV campaigns in a while. But while progress and innovation is laudable, some old features deserve to stay. And this little patriotic easter egg is one of them.

Telecommunications upstart 2degrees is preparing to take on Vodafone and Telecom on the 4G battlefront, rolling out a high speed mobile data network in early 2014 with the help of a $165 million cash injection from BNZ Bank.

The Depot took out Metro’s supreme restaurant of the year award in 2012, and it’s a popular haunt for marcomms power lunchers. And now Al Brown has produced a skite film courtesy of Alex McVinnie Photography and Reel Good that aims to capture the essence of the place.

We’ve featured Crown Range Drifting, bike races with Peregrine Falcons, men jumping from the edge of space, Rube Goldberg antics and plenty more Red Bull tomfoolery on this site in the past. And you can add another work of extreme art to the list with Danny MacAskill’s Imaginate, which sees the freakishly talented bike artist play with a few toys.

Land Rover started off not long after World War II when a farmer in the UK stripped a battered army jeep and decided to build something more appropriate. 65 years on and the cars are certainly a whole heap more luxurious, but the brand hasn’t forgotten its roots, and Big Communications is showcasing this evolution with a new campaign that has given the international creative a local twist.

The sequels to the nerdtacular kids book My Little Geek has reached its US$10,000 funding goal on Kickstarter with a week left to go.

Marketers love to throw around health-related buzz words to confuse naive consumers into thinking what they’re buying is good for them. Of course all natural might not mean the same thing for everyone, as this beefy ad selling sausages shows us.