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Navnene de gir seg selv

Via Merlin Manns del.icio.us fant jeg en en posting om amerikanske firmaer og navnene de gir sine ansatte og kunder. Visste du at ansatte i Disney World kalles “cast members”? Innsidetips om hvordan du får bedre service hos enkelte amerikanske kjeder er også tatt med. Men er det noen som har et Rema 1000- eller Platekompaniet-hack?

For øvrig minte denne replikkvekslinga i kommentarene meg om en *host* Gary Larson-stripe:

At Macromedia, we call ourselves Macromedians.

> Me and some of my co-workers call those who work on Flash development a different name 🙂

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Guevara, Hasselhoff og Johansen

Jeg kom nettopp over denne bloggpostinga skrevet av en fyr som selger t-skjorter i Che Guevara-stil med Jon Johansen og David Hasselhoff som motiver. Hvordan noen kom på å plassere de to i samme nettbutikk, vet jeg ikke om jeg har lyst til å vite …

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Lyst hode

AP: Do you read what’s written about you? Do you pick up the tabloids?

Hilton: I don’t read any of it. I just look at the pictures to see what I was wearing last week and if it was cute.

AP: Do you read blogs?

Hilton: What’s that?

AP: Um, they’re these things on the Internet where people write about news and stuff.

Hilton: No, I don’t really read anything on the Internet except my AOL mail. I don’t like people who sit on computers all day long and write about people they don’t know anything about.

AP: Paris, you just described my job.

(Her publicist, Rob Shuter, laughs.)

AP: What did you want to be when you were a little girl?

Hilton: A veterinarian, but then I realized I could just buy a bunch of animals.

Paris Hilton-intervju fra Fox News, via Erik Stattin.