August 27th, 2006 at 2:27 am by Mark Steel
Tags: advertising, antidisestablishmentarian, cartoon, humor, video
The other day, a friend of mine sent me a link to a Pittsburgh-area restaurant called Casa D’ice. Owner and disestablishmentarianist, Bill Balsamico, has started using some “colorful” advertising on his road-side sign, advertising specials and making what Media would call “unpopular” political statements.
Brilliant stuff, really. Even if makes people angry, even if they consider him a racist, people will still come in the door to check it all out. And they’ll probably end up having dinner and drinks.
The best had to be:
WANTED
SOMEONE VERY OPENMINDED
TO CHANGE THE SIGN EVERY WEEK
AFTER I DIE
INQUIRE WITHIN
Hopefully, it won’t be from a gunshot by a disgruntled citizen…
LR2 posted a link to another site about a restaurant in Scottsdale Arizona. Well, watch the video…
Reminded me of a cartoon…

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August 24th, 2006 at 6:24 pm by Mark Steel
Tags: cartoon, computers, firefox, humor, microsoft, software
Nonsense title? Check this out…
This week, we had Firefox cozying up to Microsoft in order to make a Windows Vista version of their product.
When Microsoft’s open source lab offered to help the Mozilla foundation with getting Firefox to run well on Vista, reactions ranged from skeptical and suspicious to surprised and excited. But in fact, the two teams have already been quietly working together. In this thread, Mike Schroepfer wrote “we are already in contact with your team via email”. The lab time would be helpful, though, according to Mozilla developer Mike Beltzner, who added “yes, we’d definitely be interested in getting some 1:1 support”.
It just goes to show that developers from organizations that are outwardly fiercely competitive are often quite civil with each other when nobody is looking. Perhaps that’s why projects like Apache and Eclipse are so successful.
Which led me to do the following cartoon…

Wonder if it’ll chew off its leg when it wakes up in the morning?
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