Grab Bag
Well, here are a few random things I’ve come across in the past week or so that don’t individually merit their own posts, yet amuse me all the same.
This is from SlickDeals. Good thing I saw it — you never know when you need a good banana costume. (And at that price, you should buy two!)
This is from a TechCrunch article about Google Payments (coming soon.) It’s super small, but the last line reads “‘GOOGLE * BLING BLING’ will appear by the charge on your credit card.” I so hope that’s not the store name. I want Google to write that on customer bills…
This is a “captcha” thrown up by Craigslist when I posted an (item wanted) ad yesterday. Can you read the word? If so, your eyes are better than mine. I had to hit the audio hint to figure it out. (It’s “weedy.”)
Saw this one on the NYT yesterday. I was seriously confused by the concept of water sponsoring anything, much less a newspaper article. Had to click it to find out it’s a film (from the director of Earth and Fire — any guesses on her next title?)
Finally, there’s nothing I “love” like misplaced quotation marks. Really inspires confidence in the legality of the product, doesn’t it? (Via Slate.)
April 24th, 2006 at 9:29 am
how the hell does that say weedy?!
April 25th, 2006 at 4:15 am
Exactly. I was at a loss, unless it was one of those “magic eye” things where you stare at it, then relax your eyes, and it comes into focus….
April 25th, 2006 at 11:19 pm
For the record, I think it was just a bug in their software. If you look at the site now, all the captchas have the same orange evil-eye and black dots, but with a word in the middle.