Attack of the SS PR

, posted: 22-JUL-2009 20:05

I am subscribed to the great and wonderful FreeBSD mailing lists, which occasionally throw up gems like the below message. First time I've heard of a "deep Rolodex", actually.

Mindy Franklin to freebsd-questions.

I am writi (read the entire post)...

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Rumours of my heart attack are greatly exaggerated

, posted: 25-JUN-2009 15:31

Ahh... the Internet; don't you just love it? David MacGregor, one of the Idealog founders, has unfortunately come down with a very dodgy ticker. He's currently awaiting to undergo bypass surgery, and blogged about it. I read what David had written, t (read the entire post)...



Would you buy a used car from this person?

, posted: 9-MAR-2009 19:54

Browsing TradeMe's car section, I looked at the Jaguars (yeah, I know, not entirely sensible) and found a '99 S-Type. Nothing unusual about that, but the seller or whoever it is that's modelling on the bonnet of the car seems quite remarkable:

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Olympus competition picture speaks ruder than a thousand words

, posted: 16-NOV-2008 08:18

Spoken language is difficult enough, especially when it comes to English on either side of the Atlantic, but as this contribution to the Olympus Proof Competition reveals, gesturing can produce some interesting awkwardness too, depending on the cultu (read the entire post)...



PR Troll dialogues part III: When all else fails...

, posted: 27-JUN-2007 16:16

Senior PR Troll caught up with me a while ago, telling me things are looking desperate. Big Client wasn't happy, and the account was up for pitch.

"I don't know what we did wrong... I mean, we dumped on print and favoured TV, right?" S (read the entire post)...



CoJ spreads to Google

, posted: 14-JUN-2007 14:22

Ulrika bumped into an old acquaintance of mine in San Francisco, the one and only Josh Bailey, and interviewed him for Computerworld. Josh has been with Google for a while now, and suffers American Rs and other such things as a result. Hope it doesn& (read the entire post)...

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Humping dog memory stick

, posted: 4-JUN-2007 18:27

From the "just because you can doesn't mean you should do it" department: the same people who gave you Sushi USB sticks have now come up with... a Humping Dog one. Here he is in action, giving his all to a laptop:

Rakuten calls this both " (read the entire post)...

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Late Easter Bunnies

, posted: 27-MAY-2007 15:29

I know, I know... Easter was aeons ago, but this is too good not to share:

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Sweaterated at birth and freelancer's tipple no more

, posted: 17-MAY-2007 09:05

The below image was forwarded to me by a gentleman struck by the remarkable likeness between the people in it:

Are messieurs Bain and Krueger by any chance related? I think we should be told.

In other news, the kill-joys at The Environm (read the entire post)...



'I know, let's call it...'

, posted: 30-APR-2007 11:13



'... FLEPia.'

So, you're Fujitsu, a stonking huge company in Japan, and you come up with a cool concept - electronic paper, or an electronic reader really.

And you call it FLEPia. "I schlepia my FLEPia." Sounds like (read the entire post)...







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