Oh Bugger (Photos)

Photo © 2009 David Douglas All Rights Reserved

This photo and video was taken today in Mona Vale, NSW, Australia. Looks like the guy forgot to put the rear leg out far enough, and the thing has tipped to the side. Photography by David Douglas.

Go here for all the photos: http://monkeycomputing.com.au/myphotos/?dir=Oh%20Bugger

|∑!

Hopefully you can see the characters above, if not, check the image out below. It's the latest in online abbreviations, and it makes sense to me. If it makes sense to you, use it, and get it out there. Let's see if it can take off.

The genius of a creation was invented by Andy Skinner from doomsdaylabs.com.



Below are some instructions for how to type it on the computer, if you find other ways and for ot her systems like Linux, please post them!

1. For the vertical bar, |, that's located above the Enter/Return key, usually requiring SHIFT to be pressed at the same time.
2. For the sigma, ∑, on Mac's press OPTION-W.

For the sigma on windows, you'll need to use one of the following methods (not all methods work on all PCs apparantly because its dependent on registry settings, language settings, and the code file thats in the release of Windows you have).

In Windows, hold down ALT, then type the following characters using the sequence below:

• Alt xxx, where xxx is the decimal value of a code point, generates an OEM-encoded character.
• Alt 0xxx, where xxx is the decimal value of a code point, generates a Windows-encoded character.
• Alt +xxxx, where xxxx is the hexadecimal Unicode code point, generates a Unicode-encoded (UTF-16) character.

The following values should, according to the inter-webs, spew out a ∑:

• Alt +03A3
• Alt 228

iPhone vs Stone

A friend sent me this image, I've attempted to locate any ownership of the image, although at this point I can only accredit it to the distributor of the image who sent it to me, Morteza Manouchehrzadh. Thanks mate this one made me smile.

A Stupid Attempt at Advertising

This morning as I walked past my local train station, there was a man standing handing out flyers. It's a common occurrence at the station, so I took one.

The flyer I was handed is laughable if not ROFL (rolling on floor laughing) hilarious. It promotes a local "boot camp", an exercise program that will make you "fitter, leaner, stronger and meaner." The back of the flyer is below, but out of respect of the company I decided not to upload the front of the flyer which contained the companies name and contact details.


Click for Full Size ImageYou can see there are two "before and after" cases shown. The first is Joe and is pretty impressive. Joe goes from being overweight with extremely poor posture and grey hair to being a well built hunk with no grey hair. I'm not sure why the change in hair color happened, but maybe they dye your hair for you as part of the boot camp? Seriously though, while it may be possible, I doubt the two guys are the same person.

The second is Penny and is even more impressive. Not only does Penny go from being overweight to having a skinny bod, she seems to have changed skin color rather dramatically, has a change of hair and hair color, and even has different eyes if you look closely. There is no way that the before Penny is the same person as the after Penny.

Underneath the "before and after" cases it says "REAL RESULTS... AND NO B#LL SH#T". Which is just laughable with the amount of "B#LL SH#T" that went into the flyer.

Edit: Okay so my wife pointed out to me it's humor, tongue in cheek. :P I'm really bad at detecting intentional humor sometimes. :) Thanks Bub.

Captchas Gone Bad

A couple of days ago I came across an article on docstoc.com with a slideshow of some of the worse captchas that websites have ever used. Some funny, but I can't say I really took it that seriously...until now.

I just visited reddit.com, and submitting a new link the webpage displayed the following captcha. While it isn't going to ruin my day, and I don't really find it offensive personally, I know people who might. Maybe we should consider more intelligent captchas? I mean we are displaying words to people on our websites, lets make it a good experience people!

Love is Blind

Snorg Tees - Blinded By The Light

Browsing the web I came across this t-shirt. It turned what is a cliche killed oddity of human behaviour, into a comical moment of reality for me.

Panoramic Fun

Firefox Download Day a Success, and I have a Certificate

Do Ingenico take on Steggles?

Ingenico is one of the largest companies in the payment industry, and Steggles is a poultry producer in Australia. They don't really operate in the same market or compete at all, which may be making you think I've gone nutters.

But really, I do have a point, so hold on. I noticed Ingenico recently changed their logo (see below). My wife pointed out that it's very similar to the Steggles logo...Makes me wonder if Ingenico's 'Beyond Payment' is chicken.

Ingenico's Old Logo

Ingenico's New Logo

Steggles Logo

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Okay, this guy is 'Doing It Wrong'

Okay, so I found this image on doingitwrong.com this morning. When you visit doingitwrong.com you will get a random image displayed of someone doing something wrong. This one just made me laugh:

Why the last few tic tacs get stuck?

1:39:12 AM Greg: Why is it that the last few tic tacs in the box get stuck?
1:39:25 AM Leigh: Because they know what happened to the rest of them.



Edit: I've brought this post back from the past as my wife couldn't get the last couple of tic tacs out of the box. See image above.