almost witty

And what do people do? Pose for pics with the bloody thing!

Thanks to Skarlett for spotting that - full story here

Imagine you’re building a website for a car repairer, more precisely a cylinder repair specailist. The company is called Marshall Motor Engineering. What would you call the website?

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Well, the website for Marshall Motor Engineering can be accessed via bigfood.co.uk

*scratches head*

We’ve all had to go through those moments whereby in order to prove our humanity to a computer, blog or commenting system, we have to spot and reproduce a random stream of numbers and letters. Aside from this being dead annoying, the letters/numbers are usually tiny tiny tiny and I’ve spent a good wasted five minutes going round and round trying to get the right combination. Plus it’s a bit of a computer-esque view of humanity - are we all just a bunch of letters and numbers?

So why don’t we prove our humanity in other ways? Fortunately, someone’s come up with a kitten authentication system. Instead of typing in letters and numbers, just click on three pictures of cute kittens! And there’s no way a computer can figure out what is a cute kitten and what is an evil-but-cute ostrich… is there?

Then forget about learning Ajax, Ruby on Rails, or even CSS. Forget about micro-marketing, niche-marketing or blog-marketing your website.

Just set up the simplest website you can think of, announce that if you get to 2m page impressions within a year, your girlfriend will go in a threesome with you for a bet, and watch the page impressions flood in. One million hits in one night. Amazing, really.

I’m having a lousy day to beat all lousy days - the kind of day where if you turned on the radio, it’d probably be playing songs about how woeful life is and wouldn’t life be better if a double-decker bus were to run over us. But that’s the price you pay for having computers program your radio station these days anyway based on the emotion chip I had installed by Audioscrobbler Beta.

Fortunately, the interWeb thingummy comes to the rescue with Tom Baker singing Common People, and the unveiling of Google Romance in the early days of April.