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- 10:45 PM - 0 comments

Creepy Smiles

Crest toothpaste's new series of TV ads is supposed to be really good. So I headed over to YouTube to check them out. The tagline is "You can say anything with a smile"and the ads show people delivering a variety of bad news with a smile. But do they have to be so damn creepy? Especially the first ad, which shows a bulldozer operator giving some kids the news that their playground's gonna be demolished. Check it out yourself.


BTW, this rant is directed not only at Crest but at manufacturers of virtually any kind of dental treatment with the exception of the ad below.

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- 10:17 PM - 0 comments

How Not To Take A Breathalyzer Test

An example of how not to take a Breathalyzer test.

From the Fail blog.

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- 5:50 PM - 0 comments

Enter the Jewish Taliban


As part of its operations in clearing the Taliban occupied areas of the Malakand region the Pakistani army is distributing pamphlets claiming that they (the Taliban) "... are the same as Jewish forces who are against the existence and security of the country ... "

Read the entire article here.

Image credit: daylife / Getty Images

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- 3:03 PM - 0 comments

Rise of Nations

Cool one! Check out some more of such images at tebe-interesno.

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- 10:17 PM - 0 comments

Wildcards in Word

A recent Lifehacker post drew my attention to a feature in Microsoft Word 2007 that I didn't even know existed; namely the ability to use wildcards while searching for text. I can't believe that I never thought about even trying it out before!

The example in the post uses the wildcard to search for acronyms using the search string <[A-Z]{2,}> which searches for and highlights all uppercase words in the document.

You can get the complete Microsoft documentation on this feature here.

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- 9:18 AM - 0 comments

Oh the irony!


Sometimes, things work out just right (or wrong, depending on your point of view) to create a deliciously ironic situation.

An expedition which set off from Plymouth on a 5,000 mile carbon-emission-free trip to Greenland ran into trouble and needed to be rescues by .... wait for it .... an 110,000 ton oil tanker.

I think they might have preferred to drown.
(Picture and story credit - The BBC)

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- 10:32 AM - 0 comments

Stimulating the economy ..... Chinese Style!

Authorities in the Hubei province in central China have ordered local government officials to smoke more cigarettes ... specifically those made in the same province.  Officials not meeting their 'puff quotas' or those who smoke rival brands will be fined.  In total, officials have been ordered to puff their way through 230,000 packs of Hubei-branded cigarettes.

Even local schools have been issued with a smoking quota for teachers, while one village was ordered to purchase 400 cartons of cigarettes a year for its officials, according to the local government's website.
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Local authorities in Gong'an county are taking the cigarette quota seriously and have established a "special taskforce" to enforce it.
According to a local newspaper account, a teacher from a village middle school said officials burst unannounced into the school at around 3pm one afternoon and started sifting through the ashtray and bins in the staff-room.
Three "non-compliant" cigarette butts were discovered by the "cigarette marketing consolidate team" which informed the teacher he had violated the related civil servants "cigarette usage rule" After some negotiation the school was spared a fine, but subjected to "public criticism" for "undisciplined practices".

From the Telegraph.