Morning Smile

[rgraham666]

At least it made me giggle.

101 Dumb Business decisions of 2007.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

"Fortunately nobody was using the toilets when the fire broke out," says a company spokesman. "The fire would have been just under your buttocks."

That quote alone is worth the price of admission. It's from Moment # 7

Thanks, Rob. I needed these.

--Zoot

Edited to add this item:

10. Electronic voting machines

Election officials in Florida promptly order 5,000 units

"Diebold tightens security after it is revealed that a simple virus can hack its electronic voting machines. Months later a hacker uses a picture of a key from the company website to make a real key that can open the company's machines."

 

[dr_mabeuse]

33. Oral B

And we just thought our wives were really into oral hygiene

"Lawyers representing Procter & Gamble send a 66-page cease-and-desist letter to British sex-toy company Love Honey, demanding that it stop using images of its Oral B electric toothbrushes to promote a product called the Brush Bunny - a rabbit-shaped piece of plastic that slips over the top of an Oral B to turn it into a vibrator."

Damn it! That was my idea! Along with panties with a pouch in front where you could carry your cell phone.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

82. One Laptop Per Child

On the bright side, they're learning a lot about anatomy

"Nigerian schoolchildren receive $200 computers under the U.N. One Laptop Per Child program and quickly learn a few things nobody expected - such as how to find adult websites and how to store their favorite images on the computers' hard drives. Program leaders say future laptops will be fitted with filters."

Why aren't I surprised?

 

[rgraham666]

The people in research labs and bureaucratic offices do lead sheltered lives, don't they?

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Look at the brighter econimic picture, Rob. For several years the Chinese Lead Paint industry was booming

 

[rgraham666]

Look at the brighter econimic picture, Rob. For several years the Chinese Lead Paint industry was booming

Yes, there's always a bright side, Jenny.

I'd considered investing in it, but decided not to. Damn these ethics of mine.

 

[Huckleman2000]

[snip] Damn these ethics of mine.

Word.
My life would be far more lucrative, but for ethics.
It's strange that those who can most afford ethics seem to have the least use for them.

 

[fieryjen]

96. WikiScanner

All the vitriol that's fit to print

Soon after the launch of WikiScanner - a website that links the editing of entries on Wikipedia with the computer networks where the changes were made - users uncover some newsworthy revisions: A Washington Post employee is found to have changed a reference to the owner of a rival paper from Philip Anschutz to Charles Manson, while someone at The New York Times added the word "jerk" 12 times to the entry on George W. Bush.


I like this one. It's interesting what happens sometimes when you take the anonymity away.

 

[starrkers]

96. WikiScanner

All the vitriol that's fit to print

Soon after the launch of WikiScanner - a website that links the editing of entries on Wikipedia with the computer networks where the changes were made - users uncover some newsworthy revisions: A Washington Post employee is found to have changed a reference to the owner of a rival paper from Philip Anschutz to Charles Manson, while someone at The New York Times added the word "jerk" 12 times to the entry on George W. Bush.


I like this one. It's interesting what happens sometimes when you take the anonymity away.

that one also found the Australian Government was altering entries to make them more favourable to the government policy.

 

[rgraham666]

Old typists never die, they just lose their justification.

- Lloyd Candow, Pasadena, Nfld.

 

[rgraham666]

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?

 

[Weird Harold]

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?

Why do we drive on parkways and park in driveways?

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Parkway.

Driveway.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Well now it's an evening smile.