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Posted at 4:56pm on 08 Oct 2008
Design Behind Bars
Japanese product packaging designers have come up with an innovative way to work around the design restrictions imposed by barcodes.
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Posted at 3:13pm on 08 Oct 2008
I think it's meant to be ironic...
The Microsoft developer conference 2008 promotional video
One can only assume that as a young nerd, Bill (or whoever approved this monstrosity) learned to ward off the school bullies by pre-emptively making fun of himself in the hope that it would leave the others with no ammunition left to mock him.
Unfortunately when applied to a multi-national, trillion dollar software company, this approach doesn’t work. Even if you intentionally make yourself look ridiculous, everybody still thinks you’re ridiculous.
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