Sorry, had to be done….
Category: General
The Apprentice gold
we’re just playing around with all the variables within the framework
People, we are through the looking glass.
Did you mean stupid?
Apparently Ashley Cole’s lawyer is demanding answers from the Oligarchs of search, Google Inc. over his
client’s representation in a Google search of his name (type in ‘Ashley Cole’ and google offers the suggestion Did you mean ‘Ashley Cole gay’):
Shear (Cole’s lawyer) has now asked Google to explain this anomaly with their search engine, telling Pink News: “I am keen to find out whether the decision to automatically include the term ‘gay’ to the keyword ‘Ashley Cole’ was an editorial decision or one made by a computer based on the volume of searches for ‘Ashley Cole’ linked to the word ‘gay’.
Arghh, ofcourse it’s automatic. Does this guy honestly think there is some dude sat in Googleplex looking at the typed searches and going ‘now lets see?….this person typed studip, did he mean stupid? Yeah that’ll be it’
Maybe if he used google to find out:
Please note that our spell check feature is completely automated, and we cannot make manual changes to individual suggestions.
Ofcourse if anything this is just likely to perpetuate the problem, especially as the newswires are picking up on the story.
Gotta love it
Minty
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Just in case……
The apprentice
The new series has just started on the beeb. And it seems like its continuing in the same fashion as the first series, good telly, annoying pricks.
Why oh why do these people irritate me that much. It maybe due to statements such as
“£100,000 salary is not enough but it’s a good place to start.”
“Everything I have ever done in life I have succeeded at. That’s why, if I make it through to the final round, I will win. I know I’m going to be the best.”
“I want to be The Apprentice because I think it’s the ultimate business opportunity. Working with Sir Alan and seeing how he operates would be great. I think I could learn an awful lot from him.”
Sorry, but sycophantic, self-obsessed bullshit.
I hate everything about that entire biz-talk thang that goes on, I had enough of all that crap when studying for an Art degree before I even started in the world of business. It’s just the complete lack of actual content and focus that I despise, a sort of crap, half-baked postmodernist process where references to the system of business/art is all that is necessary, where actual focus of the references is besides the point as long as everyone plays the same game.
Good quote from Presentation Zen
I don’t hate politicians and I don’t hate marketers…but I hate the way they talk. “Mission-critical, forward-looking value propositions….” People do not talk that way! Many corporate speakers have a special gift for the “blah-blah-blah.” Is anyone listening? Speeches and presentation do not have to be be stuffy and dull, but neither do they need to be hyped-up and shallow — your audience is praying you’ll be different.
Maybe I am just a stupid idealist, maybe I am naive, doesn’t mean they speak any less crap though.
I believe in this post so much that I have donated my fee to Great Ormond Street.
At last
Ah those canny investigators at the Health and Safety Executive and the Environment Agency have finally put all of our collective minds at rest with a statement about what happened at Buncefield (the fuel depot that created the cloud of death over most of the south-east).
Evidence points to a mixture of petrol and air which ignited being the cause of the Buncefield oil depot explosions, the lead investigator has said.
Ah of course, there was me thinking is was caused by cheese.
….And not to be trumped
There appear to have been several explosions but the exact sequence of events has not yet been established.
Damn, these guys are good, so that’s what caused the huge flames and large quantities of smoke, an exp…los..ion, I see,
When are we to see Health and Safety Executive and the Environment Agency Investigates (HSEEA Investigates) on our screens?
Although to be fair, it does go on to say that its early days and they need to find out more. Still kind of funny though.
Barbelith
Barbelith is the red light seen by Black Tom O’Bedlam and Jack Frost as they smoke mold in the Grant Morrison comic book series “The Invisibles“. It recurs throughout the story as a supernatural moon seeming both intelligent and benign. It plays the deity to Jack Frost’s messiah (whom it forces to feel the pain of all humanity until he agrees to help make a better world and fulfill his destiny) and takes on the mission of sustaining humanity (much like a placenta does for an infant) until the time for them evolve past 3-D space arrives.