(Tamar Weinberg is a) Schwag Addict

If you like LOLcats, you’ll love icanhascheezburger. Run by my two friends, Eric Nakagawa and Ben Huh, this site is one of the most popular sites on the internetz due to the user-generated content and hilarious pictures. The idea behind ICHC is to caption your cat photos. And wow, they’re hilariously funny. Ben tells me that they actually post about 1% of all cat photo submissions. Crazy!

In any event, ICHC has a bunch of cool schwag, including t-shirts and pins. The pins rock. Take a look.

The T-shirts need to be found, and once they are, I’ll revisit ICHC on a schwag addict blog post again. 🙂

At the recent South by Southwest event in March, Rana Sobhany, Eric Litman, and Peter Corbett helped coordinate one of the coolest parties with the Geico caveman. No, seriously. The event was coordinated in preparation for the launch of iHeartCavemen, a brand new dating site.

Here’s the caveman with my friend Seth. It was Seth’s birthday.

Here he is with Rana:

(Photo courtesy of Peter Corbett)

The party was great, the caveman was unable to get through the wall of fans that followed him everywhere he went (upstairs, downstairs, it didn’t matter), and there was schwag to be had. This candle set came from the party:

Thanks to Julia Allison for letting me take your candle set home. 😉

More photos from the party are listed at Peter’s blog. Try to look for Robert Scoble, Caroline McCarthy, Pete Cashmore, iJustine, and other web celebrities.

Digital marketing agency Steak Media recently displayed their new mascot, a purple cow, at the recent Search Engine Strategies New York conference. Here’s what the little dude looks like:

He looks angry, shy, or confused from the front:

Not long ago, I wrote about the Compete Karate dude. Well, Compete analytics has more to offer with one of the sturdiest glass cups I’ve seen at an expo. I know I got this somewhere on the west coast and it made its way safely through luggage back to my home in NY.