Cats with Slice of Bread on Head – We are all going to Cat Hell

Very Amusing and possibly conclusive proof that the western world wastes food and has too much time on its hands.

The impending Planet of The Cat’s saga in human history will be a pretty humiliating place for us all.

More proof at The Telegraph

 

Amusing View on Scottish Independence

The Economist give an amusing insight into an Independent Scotland

The Economist – The Price of Scottish Independence

Credit Suisse Cute Lindt Bear advert

London City Airport – LCY has free Wi-Fi

I spend quite a lot of time at London City Airport and like their free Wi-Fi sponsored by Credit Suisse.  Credit Suisse loads a default page about themselves when you login, which would normally be something you close immediately, but their cute image of the Lindt Bear and his pet CEO Ernst Tanner caught my attention and made me smile. Little amusing personal touches things like this makes companies stand out and certainly caught my attention more than the usual picture of business men in hard hats shaking hands.

Lindt Golden Bear with pet CEO

 

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People the Accenture Way

An Accenture consultant gave a presentation yesterday to an audience of 170 search technology customers at an event I was exhibiting at in London. For decency’s sake I’ll leave her name and the search technology sponsors name out of this article. The audience was a mix of customers, consultants, implementation teams and a few pure search focused people.

While Search driven revenues is a top tier management priority, the majority of day to day Search decisions are still made between manager and director level in middle management land.

So bear this in mind as I paraphrase how Ms Accenture ended her wannabe Carly Fiorina styled presentation.

“so we come to the leanings phase. Middle Managers, [spat out like a dirty phrase] this lot are where you find many of the problems you know. There are three types of middle manager [audience sits up]. You have the lion…he is all roar..quieten him down and make him do your will, he can be praised and you can get him on side [patronising smirk]. Then you have the Donkey [makes slight eeorr sound/gesture combo], he is suborn and he does not like change so he must be dragged along [gestures the pulling of donkey across stage] and then you have the SHARK!!!!…he will come for you at any time and wants to kill your project, he won’t listen he just wants to come at your….[pause]..he must be removed, FINISHED”

Cue slight intake of breath from the audience and heads turning to each other to confirm “did she seriously just say that?”.

The moment was to be savoured briefly before desert came in the form of a dangerous, apparently accidental and inaccurate slight to the partner technology she was speaking about. The sponsors were generous in their praise of the presentation but the white noise as people left the room was “so…do I get fired, coerced sidelined or manipulated”.

Web 2.0 Developer Guidelines

It’s been a long time since I saw this list of Web 2.0 interface requirements but it’s still amusing, more Web 2.0 cowbell needed.

Business Week reader jailed for 5 years for wanting an early copy.

Eugene Plotkin a 28 year old  ex Goldman Sachs analyst has been jailed for almost 5 years for a string of insider trading activities that netted his group at least $6.7 million. The nefarious ways of beating the market included bribing print mill workers to supply Business Week before it hit readers. More worrying than his other activities of paying off investment bankers for tips and using strippers as spies is that Business Week could have such a large impact on trading.

You Can’t Handle A Bigger Logo

Tres Amusant: A Few Good Creative Men video on Youtube.

Col. Nathan R. Jessep ‘s surprising execution outstrips the Client Service Director ability to deliver.

Thank Janet W, very amusing, and thanks for the excellent links you always send my way.