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The Most Famous Geek in IT

Posted by Hemos on from the a-man-of-many-faces dept.

Gushi writes "I want this guy to come work for us. He's famous. He's been everywhere. And he may not even know it. He knows about Windows Mail Servers and all about Open-Source Management Software as well as plenty about the intricacies of SCO server authentication. I want him to come join our team."

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  1. And here comes his sister, the most famous female by presroi · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I made screenshots of her from lycoris and mannotincluded.com

    Does anyone know more places?

  2. Predictability, thy name is corporate photoart by azaris · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's unbelievable how unimaginitive the photoart used on corporate websites and brochures can be.

    At ork we used to make fun of the brochures for various business related software/hardware companies that always seemed to include the same type of photoart: a group of business men and women staring at a computer screen, pointing their fingers and going "ahh" at presumably how good the product was perceived to be. You could literally find this stuff in every single brochure you browsed through.

  3. The interesting thing I found. . . by Fantastic+Lad · · Score: 5, Interesting
    is in how blazingly immediate the three websites got the 'officialdom' knocked out of them in this little exercise; when you come at them from such a different perspective. --I've never approached a website from such an angle as this one before, looking for recurrning stock photos rather than lazily checking out services and driver archives.

    I mean, what the hell does an image of a guy leaning against some computer stuff have to do with anything on any of these sites? It's silly! Dumb, even. Why the heck is it there? Is it like a fridge magnet or something? Is it holding up a grocery list? --And yet, when you don't think about it; when the average surfer arrives in a haze of predetermined, unoriginal behavior, such images DO hold power. Lots of it. --Perhaps more power than any other element of any of the three pages.

    Advertising works for a reason.

    But when you look at the guy, and wonder if he got paid for each usage of the photo, or if you realize that he's a model who probably may not even own a computer. . . Hell, just having the graphic formula made plain causes the haze of 'officialdom' achieved so effectively by the graphic artists' parallel lines and colored boxes and their officy-'very important' fonts, gets neatly blown away in the sudden wind of one's mind upon waking up for a moment. This is an example of the real power of the mind; a power very much feared by advertisers and the powers that be. This is why, in part, they like to augment the process with the introduction of anti-depressants, fluoride and various Monsanto additives to the population.

    Deconstruction is always fun!


    -FL