This “mike tyson punching dubya” flash ad is brilliant… i could watch Tyson punch Bush all day long…” —Me, in an IM chat with a co-worker today The sad thing is they actually want you to click the ad to make Bush fight back… but you’re too mesmerised to do anything at all, and thus…
Category: Huh?
And I quote…
So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun! Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies. —Matt Stone and Trey Parker in response to Tom Cruise pulling his weight to have an episode of South Park, spoofing…
Have you ever…
Have you ever gone to the restroom, commenced usage, and suddenly felt like you might just be day dreaming, and that at any moment, someone will scream “Bowers! What the hell are you doing!?”–and you’ll realise you’ve been peeing on a shelf full of reference materials? I get this feeling everyday at work.
Adventures in copywriting
I fired up photoshop this morning at work, just to notice this brilliant gem of technical copywriting: Wow. Say that ten times fast…
A thought.
If I see the words “the ubiquitous Windows operating system” in another news item, I think I’ll scream… I mean, come on kids… if you’re going to pull out the thesaurus to attempt to sound authoritative, at least avoid using cliché terms and phrases.
Jump on the bandwagon
I have 6 4 5 (?) Gmail invites available, if anyone wants one. The preceding has been my impersonation of about every blogger on earth. That has to be one of the most blogged sentences ever. But seriously… I have a few of them of them right now. If you want to try out this…
I love translation
Just a quick thought today–My name is Greg Bowers (as you no doubt have noticed), or more specifically, Gregory Brett Bowers. So I’m G.B. Bowers, and thus the “gb” notification in the title of each post I make. I use gb simply because it’s easy, but I’ve found something rather funny when I translate my…
Picture of the Day
This was just far to bizarre to pass up. I can’t really give much more information that this:
CHAU THANH, KIEN GIANG Vietnam — Tran Van Hay, 67, from Chau Thanh district of Vietnam poses for a photo showing his over 20-feet long hair that hasn’t been cut for 31 years. (06/22/04 AP photo)
Picture-o-the-day
Today’s picture of the day (not really a daily occurrence on the site, but just something I do when I run across something cool) shows you another reason I’m voting for John Kerry this November: We have the same laptop! Doesn’t that make you want to vote for him? 😉
Image of the Day
Colin Powell doing “Y.M.C.A.” at the end of Asia’s largest security meeting, in Jakarta, Indonesia. Village People unavailable for comment.