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Genius

Paul — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:30:38 +0000

This time I was nice enough to write to the Daily Mail to point out their mistake, rather than just whining here. They’re mocking the gentleman shown above (an intellectual, to be sure) for having jenius tattooed on his head, instead of genius.

Hi,

You may want to rethink the story available at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1353389/Man-assault-charge-pictured-misspelt-genius-tattoo.html titled “Some ‘genius’! Suspect on assault charge pictured with misspelt tattoo”. The lettering on the gentleman’s face is in cursive, and starts with a cursive G (see http://funeasyenglish.com/writing-the-english-alphabet-letter-g.htm for details on how to write one). Now it’s not a particularly well done cursive G, for sure, but then I imagine the sort of people who will put tattoos on other people’s foreheads probably didn’t have the best cursive teachers.

I look forward to your follow-up article about the ‘Daily Mail Reporter’ so dumb he or she can’t recognize his or her own language when it’s written down.

Cheers, Paul

Keeping Things Running Smoothly

Paul — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:15:46 +0000

If I bought this do you think it would say something about me that I might not want Amazon to know?

Clowns

Paul — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:29:13 +0000

This is one of the most terrifying images I’ve ever seen.

This might provide some protection.

Wiki Central

Paul — Wed, 28 May 2008 09:25:45 +0000

Yet more proof that the UK is the center of the universe. The Wikipedia universe, that is

Painting Elephants

Paul — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:39:09 +0000

This looks like a fake. But then you watch it carefully, and it looks real. And then you realize that it’s been confirmed by Snopes, so far as they can tell anyway. And then you think, wow.

Wal-Mart Growth

Paul — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:46:23 +0000

Here’s an interesting video showing the growth of Wal-Mart since it’s founding in 1962. It’s interesting to see the population distribution of the US (roughly) reflected in retail.

Dolls

Paul — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:21:48 +0000

A break from politics – here’s a collection of character dolls repainted to look more like the characters they’re supposed to look like. Awesome and creepy in equal measure.

(HT: Neatorama)

My Eyes Hurt

Paul — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:39:02 +0000

I’ve been looking at this page for too long, and I can’t focus properly any more.

Spam Everywhere

Paul — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:24:06 +0000

I’m an admin for a discussion forum covering the Concept2 indoor rower, and one of my jobs is to clear up forum spam. We tend to get very little because of a simple spam blocker one of the members came up with (it stops users posting links until they’ve made several posts, and most spammers only try a single post). That doesn’t stop the spammers signing up, however, and if nothing else they hope to get some page rank from the memberlist that the forum shows by default (which is why we turn that feature off).

Because of a recent upgrade we’ve temporarily lost the spam blocking feature (ok, ok, I’ve forgotten the needed password and need someone from the US to wake up so I can get it), and got the memberlist back. A quick count shows that we have around 1,700 users who’ve made a legitimate post (which is pretty good), but an additional 12,500 who look like spammers. Depressing, to say the least, so I’m now looking for a script to allow mass delete. Whilst most users are from the USA, I think I’ll start with all the people from the mythical land of Tramadol.

Beards

Paul — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:11:08 +0000

Here’s a guy who shaved half his luxuriant beard off to test whether it was really warmer with one. Respect due, I’m sure you’ll agree, but nothing too excessive so far. But check out his pic from 6 weeks later, and admire his commitment to…well, admire his commitment.