Tag Archives: fail

Orlando Weekly: Grow Up

Last week 3 employees of the Orlando Weekly, a local cultural and “alt-press” publication, were arrested by the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation for allegedly selling ad space in their paper to prostitutes, specifically “aiding and abetting prostitution” as the charges were laid out.

Their response? This excuse for journalism. Here’s the deal guys. You got caught knowingly taking money and placing ads supporting a blatant criminal activity. The response of a 2 year old is to say, “but… Read More

Maybe .NET Needs Spell Check Too

So I’m working along in Microsoft AdCenter and suddenly the .NET monstrosity stops working. So I try to navigate back and get ASP errors thrown at me. Next I get 500 errors. Finally I get some kind of actual system delivered error page from the homepage of the service. It looked like this:

It had two misspellings, one right in the headline! The items are highlighted. Microsoft, you are too big a boy to be told that you need… Read More

Scoble, We Hardly Knew Ye

So this series of Scoble videos are making the blog rounds and well, Scoble pretty much caught a nasty case of foot-in-mouth disease if you ask me, brought on by a nasty Calcanis infection. Apparently Mahalo is going to end Google in 4 years (as well as Yahoo! and MSN) and SEO is entirely devoted to spamming the engines.

Wow, now I haven’t seen that level of reckless ignorance since, well, earlier today when Michael Vick said… Read More