Brandon's Blog

10/26/2009

Ads Absurdum

What’s with those online ads where the Spanish-speaking girl says “Hola” and the frat guy says “Hello,” and then there is a Tower of Babel moment, then we are offered a method of translating the other side of the conversation?  Does this solve the core problem here?

It’s like the corporate world: “Our people don’t version their files!”

“Livelink!”

In the tradition of Cory Doctorow, now you have two problems.

Well, you really have one problem, but you’re being redirected to the second, and please click the link if you are not redirected within 10 seconds.  Oops, you don’t have permission to access the second problem.

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