Headless Zombie Bunny

2005-04-15T07:22:00.000-07:00

Yarr! I'm not sure why this picture is red, but it's an ingenious piece of photoshoppery.

2005-04-12T15:37:00.000-07:00

"More parents in Glasgow send their children to schools beyond city council boundaries than anywhere else in Scotland." Leaving all the Glasgow schools empty? We can only guess.

2005-04-07T03:42:00.000-07:00

Engineers turn to 'soft offices':

Caption: "'There is no doubt that if you take average office, they have lots of hard straight surfaces which are terrible for noise ... It is a playground for noise' -- Mark Richardson, Blum"

This is just one giant WTF. The article is about how noisy office environments are, and what changes can be made to furniture and decoration to reduce the noise. They have two good pictures: one of panelling for absorbing noise, and one of a regular office filled with filing cabinets and other non-absorbing materials. Then, while someone was raiding the stock photography archives for those two, they came across this one and for some reason decided to include it, too.

Maybe she can't stand 'teh PAIN!' of being involved in such a shocking stock photography incident, or maybe she's distressed at being captioned with some random guy's quote. Or maybe I'm mistaken, and this really is a picture of Mark Richardson. Hmm, somehow I doubt it.

2005-04-06T11:57:00.000-07:00

Global voices speak through blogs:

Caption: "Newspapers are the traditional way to find out what is going on"

Well, it's good that the BBC found a photograph which relates to the article so well, and could give it such an informative caption.

2005-04-06T11:37:00.000-07:00

Brown "could stay as chancellor":

Caption: "There has been intense speculation over a Blair-Brown rift"

AmIPhotoshoppedOrNot?

2005-04-06T04:36:00.000-07:00

Tech firms in court over music piracy:

Caption: "The challenge is to find equitable ways to share the creations of the gifted"

Olympias, Philip, and Alexander? The gifted? What?

2005-04-06T04:07:00.000-07:00

Secretive employers 'on thin ice':

The lopsided photographer strikes again! The photo filename is "office_elvis_203". Perhaps the employers are secretly harbouring Elvis?!

2005-04-04T08:11:00.000-07:00

Blair's poll date thinking:

I'm thinking, was the photographer drunk? Did the camera go off by mistake?

2005-04-03T06:25:00.000-07:00

Call for 'fairer' terror trials:

Caption: "Three special advocates have resigned over the restrictions"

Awful, awful Photoshop work. And are the special advocates really statues of Themis?

2005-03-29T01:43:00.000-08:00

Net fingerprints combat attacks:

Caption: Net firms hope to escape the worst of attacks.

I see what you did there, Mr BBC Stock Photo Man. Very funny! I laughed!

2005-03-27T15:47:00.000-08:00

Long life promised for laptop PCs:

Look out! There's a midget ninja with a ladder on your desk!

2005-03-26T03:53:00.000-08:00

Reid attacks Tory NHS proposals:

HIIII-YA!

2005-03-25T16:07:00.000-08:00

Award honour for 'living legends':

Oh, come on, smile a bit...

Wah!

2005-03-24T12:07:00.000-08:00

Harvard bars adminssions hackers:

Hackers use the Shift and Enter keys a hella lot.

2005-03-24T11:15:00.000-08:00

Blair shuns US religion politics:

Tony Blair surely doesn't need a bad photo to undermine his credibility, he does a good enough job himself.

2005-03-24T10:05:00.000-08:00

Slow start to speedy net services:

Apparently ice skaters are getting into the ISP game now.

2005-03-24T08:54:00.000-08:00

So what's the point of 3G?:

Who knows what the point of 3G is? Let's post a picture of the ~~Jules Rimet trophy~~ World Cup (thanks, cattleprod).

2005-03-24T08:52:00.000-08:00

Rise of zombie PCs 'threatens UK':

A missed opportunity for a photo if ever there was one.

2005-03-24T07:41:00.000-08:00

How to sell your self for a song:

Or how to sell Lassie for a song?

Colophon

2005-03-24T07:39:00.000-08:00

The BBC News website has some of the worst stock photo usage in the world. This is a daily log of some of the most awful photo choices.

The name? It comes from this NTK issue:

Ultimate indignity - headless zombie rabbit gets parking ticket only a day later: [1], [2]