I get the same expression on my face whenever I see Hillary:
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Monthly Archives: April 2008
Apr
25
2008
I Feel Your Pain, Bill…
Apr
25
2008
Cartoon Silhouettes
Here’s a fun little exercise — can you identify the cartoon characters by their silhouettes in the illustration below?
Click the image to see it at full size.Image courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
[This was also posted in Global Nerdy.]
Apr
25
2008
“Play-by-Play Account of a Strip Tease”
If you showed the ad below for Arrow menswear to an advertising exec today, s/he’d probably say: “Too wordy! You can’t see the real product! The illustrations are too small!” It’s a shame, because I rather like the style of these old ads:
Click the ad to see it at full size.Image courtesy of Miss Fipi [...]
Apr
25
2008
A Review of “The Other Boleyn Girl”, Summarized in One Picture
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Rotten Tomatoes, which takes all sorts of reviews for movies and computes an overall score, gave The Other Boleyn Girl a 40% rating.
Apr
24
2008
Tired: Cup Holders. Wired: French Fry Holders!
“Even has a clip-on ketchup cup!”
The French Fry Holder pictured above is in Improvements’ catalog. It’s currently not in stock, but I’m sure with enough demand, they’ll restock this life-changing apparatus!
Here’s the description from the catalog:
French Fry Holder
Hold Your Fries In Your Car’s Cup Holder And Make Driving Safer.
Cars now come with several cup holders, [...]
Apr
24
2008
Help Remedies’ Clever Packaging
The blog HealthBolt (one of the blogs in the b5media network) has an article about Help Remedies’ cool packaging for things like aspirin and band-aids. The aspirin package is labelled “Help / I have a headache” and the package for the band-aids says “Help / I’ve cut myself”:
Click the photo to go to Help [...]
Apr
23
2008
It’s the “Judean People’s Front / People’s Front of Judea” All Over Again
(If the “Judean People’s Front / People’s Front of Judea” reference is new to you, see this scene from Life of Brian.)
Apr
23
2008
I Always Thought that Speed was the Trucker Drug of Choice
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
(In this case, LSD is short for Low Sulfur Diesel.)
Apr
22
2008
Are You Sure You Want to be in San Francisco?
Over at Signal vs. Noise, 37signals’ blog, David Heinemeier Hansson asks Are you sure you want to be in San Francisco? Here`s an excerpt:
If your idea for a web business is more along the lines of the mundane “product * price = profit” (3P) variety, I think the culture of San Francisco and that famous [...]
Apr
22
2008
Unintentional Onanism
The smart-alecky UK-based technology site The Register noticed something about the new logo for the UK Office of Government Commerce (OGC), picture below:
If you rotate it 90 degrees clockwise, it looks like a stick figure engaging in the act of…er, pleasuring himself:
Come to think of it, considering how government initiatives related to business typically end [...]
