Sunday, November 8, 2009

Peculiar Pictures, early November edition

As you know, from time to time I like to post some stupid pictures, complete with snide comments. Here are some I've collected over the last month or so. So, here we go...

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Argh! I can sort of see why Apple's sync thingy has this dialog for syncing contacts, but for syncing notes? Really? The thing is, I'd need to have at least 20 notes (which would be ridiculous) before I'd even be allowed modify one without getting this stupid message next time I sync.

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The logo of Russia's space administration, apparently ripped off from Star Trek. This is the real logo, by the way.

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And here is one of their communication devices. No, it's really the 'Inventor of the Soviet Union' medal. Introduced in 1981, so that gives you an idea of in which direction the rip-off was. Quite frankly, I'm surprised that Paramount hasn't sued. Here's a space programme medal:

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Note that it is given for riding the space airliner over Pangea.

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And this is a medal given to test pilots. Quite frankly anyone who flew the golden bomber with the insane tailfins over the enormous flying shards of glass, as depicted, deserves a medal.

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A meta one here; I just noticed that MacOS seems to have some sort of shared webcache thing, under '/var/folders'. Right. Wonderfully descriptive naming, there.

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A filler image in one of Apple iWeb's default templates. Unpleasant visual effect, really; the guy second from the left, in particular, looks quite disturbing with that reflection.

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Wonderfully appropriate YouTube advertising.

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Wonderfully bizarre YouTube advertising; note the URL. This is a US government website about Mars, for some reason.

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More weird and horrifying advertising from the US government.

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Disgusting advertising from a US health insurance company. Ugh. Possibly placed by Obama to discredit them.

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This ad is bothersome in many ways! 1 rule to a flat Stomach: Obey... Eek! And I think you lost a tad more than 24 pounds, dear.

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Interwebs fast! Yay!

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Goat topiary! Ahahahah!

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From an Apple-hosted blog. Why am I doing this? How philosophical of you, Mr. iWeb!

1 comments:

  1. To get rid of the 5% nag screen when syncing:

    1. Open iSync in OS X.
    2. Open preferences.
    3. Deselect/change to your preference the "Show Data Change Alert" option.
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