Advertising fail

Not quite ironic enough for FailBlog, but still funny. Now if only the same ad appeared for [hanky-panky]...

It's not just a good idea, it's the claw!

This most excellent piece of graffiti has been gracing the entry road to the mall near our house ever since we moved to Washington:

It seems The Claw is somewhat of a Seattle phenomenon; I've seen this same modification on signs in Redmond, Capitol Hill and downtown Seattle. (Unfortunately I couldn't take my own picture of it because they seem to have cleaned up the Redmond one in the last couple weeks. Too bad... it used to make my day every time I drove by.)

Anyway, today I found a guy who claims he started the Claw phenomenon. He sounds possessive enough about it that he just might be for real. Has anyone else sighted The Claw lately?

LOLCODE

Don't know if you know anything about lolcat But now there's lolcode:

HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
PLZ OPEN FILE "LOLCATS.TXT"?
    AWSUM THX
        VISIBLE FILE
    O NOES
        INVISIBLE "ERROR!"
KTHXBYE

Maybe this is a great opportunity to get involved with an important OSS initiative...

Washington (not the state)

This video just gets funnier every time we watch it:

[Edit: As of Dec. 2010 the video is available here.]

La délation communautaire

I got a most excellent email last week:

La France découvre le Web 2.0 et les efforts communautaires:

http://delation-gouv.fr
"Aidez-nous à remettre la France sur les rails en signalant tout comportement suspect grâce à ce formulaire."

My favourites:

• X est bronzé toute l'année
• X possède un didgeridoo
• X est "bizarre"
• X joue au minigolf avec des balles roses
• X ne se drogue pas

Just wait!

In my office building, IBM occupies floors 1 & 2 and Google occupies floors 3 & 4. After our crazy power outages last month, we had to take the stairs for a few days because the elevators weren't back in service yet. As I was climbing past an IBM floor, I noticed a piece of paper on their door that read, "IBM: The world leader in pretty much everything."

Below that someone (a passing Googler, presumably) had written in pencil, "Except search!" And below that, someone had written, "Just wait!"