I don’t think she’d look as happy if it was John McCain scrubbing…
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
…but I think McCain’s image, at best, is more along these lines:
Image courtesy of The Triumph of Bullshit.
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I’m having fun with Wordle, a web app that takes text you give it and turns it into gorgeous word clouds, where the size of the word is based on its frequency. Since talking about pretty pictures is akin to dancing about architecture, let me just show you some of Wordle’s output based on some of my favourite blog entries.
Here’s the Wordle-generated word cloud for my blog entry titled Worst Date Ever, Part 5:
With a change of font, Wordle created a very nice cloud for the story about Julie and Amanda, A Craigslist Wedding:
And finally, here’s the Wordle-generated cloud for Assrockets and Opportunities, the essay behind my decision to leave a comfy job and go work at a startup:
If you’ve got some text, go give Wordle a try!
Photo courtesy of Ryland (who has the best sign generator site) and Miss Fipi Lele.
Update: Even more wrong — Hannah Montana Gummi Guitars. What were they thinking?
Photo courtesy of Toronto Buses.
I feel for Brad Ross, long-time spokesperson for the City of Toronto and now Director of Corporate Communications for Accordion City’s public transit system, the TTC. He has to put up with smartasses like me needling the TTC for a lack of originality in their signage, and in the past week, he has to help manage the PR fallout from some notable mishaps on the TTC’s surface routes:
- This morning: a head-on collision between two streetcars (one going west, the other supposed to be going east, but turning north) near Bay and Dundas streets. Given that streetcars are restricted to the rails on which they run, you almost have to try before there’s any possibility of a head-on collision.
- Yesterday morning: A bus driver suffers “a seizure or some other medical problem”, causing the bus to swerve, smash into a median, a light pole, and several parked cabs, finally coming to a stop a kilometre away when it hit a tree.
- Last Tuesday: A bus driver was charged with drunk driving after a passenger, concerned about the way the driver was behaving, called the police on a mobile phone. The driver was instructed to drop off all the passengers and police were dispatched. He was issued a breathalyzer test and found to be over the legal limit and was both arrested and fired.
For my limited communications with Brad and from reading the papers, I know that Brad’s a straight-talking, articulate and responsive guy, which is what the TTC is going to need in light of this week’s surface route troubles. I wish him all the best — this isn’t going to be an easy week.
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Muppet Photo of the Day
They should turn this into a greeting card that you could give to Catholic kids for their First Communion:
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
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Comic Book Cover of the Day
It was a more innocent time…
Image courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
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“I’m Voting Republican”
There’s an amusing video over at ImVotingRepublican.com titled (natch) I’m Voting Republican. Click the image below to watch the video:
Among the reasons the people in the video are voting Republican in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election are:
- “Because we don’t like shopping at small neighbourhood stores…and we just love cheap plastic crap from China.”
- “I don’t really want a cure for AIDS or breast cancer…they’re just gays and women.”
- “I think new drugs should be made available immediately, whether they’ve been tested properly or not. If the major pharmaceutical companies’ bottom lines are healthy, then I feel healthy too.”
- So my little Caitlyn can share a classroom with 30 other children.
- “Because women just can’t be trusted to make decisions about their own bodies. Never, ever, ever!”
- “Because I need to be told who I can love.”
- “I just need them to tell me how just I can show a lifetime commitment.”
- “Because corporations should not have to pay to clean up environmental damage.”
- “Because I don’t want to know if the food I’m eating has been genetically modified or exposed to radiation…if the label says ‘food’, that’s good enough for me!”
- “Because I really enjoy being screwed by the utility companies.”
- “We need more minorities in prison.”
- “I just don’t feel I deserve health insurance.”
- “Because Texas needs more billionaires.”
- “Because sometimes the Constitution is just one big inconvenient headache.”
- “I think the world should be run by one big corporation. It think it’d be so much cosier!”
- “Because all other countries are inferior to us! And we should start as many wars as we need to keep it that way.”
- “[Soldier] So I can stay in Iraq.”
- “[Kid with toy gun] So I can go to Iran!”
Be advised that there’s a good chance that the Democrats will deliver a diluted version of these items, but I’m a “pick the lesser of two evils” kind of guy, anyway.
I expect there’ll be comments for this one, so fire away!