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	[quote name="laudablepuss"][quote name="Ray, of Light"][quote name="laudablepuss"]To admire the intense stupidity that is CNN. <img src=http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2003/images/02/25/top.consumer.confidence2.dn.jpg> Did anyone ever read the Onion article about the guy who makes these things? I think he killed himself after this one. I love the dollar signs in front of the 50 dollar bills. Just in case.[/quote] Tragically, the rise of digital imagery at home has spread this disease to the corporate world. A project involving, say, an Oracle-based LDAP directory, commissioned by an Israeli company, would get a quarter-page collage, including: <ul> <li>The client's logo <li>The shop's logo <li>Oracle's logo <li>A photograph (or Visio line-art) of the hardware to be used <li>An "LDAP logo", except there isn't one. Instead, something evocative of "directories" like the Yellow Pages logo, or maybe just the word "LDAP" in 36-point Arial. <li>A close-up of someone's face. Or eyes. (thanks, Microsoft) <li>A star of David </ul> This creation would then grace every cover page of every project plan, project proposal, project status report, project projection, project post-mortem, and project-related termination notice. Ray![/quote] And yet, in all the mayhem, maybe there's room for a little subversive cool stuff. For example, do my eyes decieve me or is that a cannabis plant in the background? My eyes probably do decieve me in this case, but you see what I mean.[/quote]