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We’re all used to unusual ads these days, no matter what the medium. But once in a while, something is so bizarre, so hilarious or just plain insulting, we can’t help but do a double take. Whether it’s PETA making obesity jokes or a mistress exposing her affair with a married man, check out the 10 most outrageous billboards we could find.
via Billboard Ads – Controversial Billboard Ads at WomansDay.com.
“PowerPoint makes us stupid,” Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander, said this month at a military conference in North Carolina. (He spoke without PowerPoint.) Brig. Gen. H. R. McMaster, who banned PowerPoint presentations when he led the successful effort to secure the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar in 2005, followed up at the same conference by likening PowerPoint to an internal threat.
via Enemy Lurks in Briefings on Afghan War – PowerPoint – NYTimes.com.
And after McCain’s campaign released a Web video on primary opponent J.D. Hayworth, including references to “birthers,” horse marriages and vampires, Democratic treasurer hopeful Andrei Cherny tweeted that it offers “more proof you can’t spell CRAZY without (R-AZ.)”
Here are some iPad reviews. Worth reading.
Thus, someone who feels overworked would not ask for a second person at the same level (a potential rival), but for a pair of subordinates. Having subordinates is, itself, a lot of work, and so it isn’t long till we have three people doing what was formerly done by one, all feeling pressured and in need of assistance.
via ‘Parkinson’s Law’ in reverse now seen in many workplaces.
If you are mononymous, you have become well known by one name only, like Napoleon, Shakespeare, Einstein, Morrissey, Pelé or Cher.
via World Wide Words E-magazine: 13 Mar 2010.
I’ve been mononymous since 1970
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So yes, the Jesus Tablet will appear.
via Five Ways Apple’s Tablet May Change the World – BusinessWeek.
Today, search engines like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft’s new Bing have become the Internet’s gatekeepers, and the crucial role they play in directing users to Web sites means they are now as essential a component of its infrastructure as the physical network itself. The F.C.C. needs to look beyond network neutrality and include “search neutrality”: the principle that search engines should have no editorial policies other than that their results be comprehensive, impartial and based solely on relevance.
via Op-Ed Contributor – Search, but You May Not Find – NYTimes.com.
Who is John Galt? Didn’t he rail against legislating to favor one company over another in a competitive market? Hmmm.
Took me a few paragraphs before I realized the editorial was coming from a “wronged” competitor.
I can haz the #31?
can we git sumfing frum petsmart?
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via I can haz the #31?:
Here’s the result: the first volume of a two-tape collection called “Internet Power!” from 1995. I’ve included some select quotes and screenshots below.
via Internet Power, Volume 1: Flashback to the VHS-Era Web – Waxy.org.
I really do have to learn how to harness this thing, but I think my modem speed is too fast. Will it work at 28.8?
I hope I can find some more of these videos. Might be a really good thing to become an expert at this highway thing.
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