Serious companies from around the globe sometimes makes (disastrous) mistakes when it comes to their on-line presence. Especially when choosing a domain name. The golden rule here is to make sure it’s suitable in the most common languages, and leaves little or no room for “confusion”…

1. Powergenitalia.com
Owned by the Italian battery company Powergen. Apparently they forgot about how this might be read by the English speaking. They later changed their name to batterychargerpowergen.it.

2. Whorepresents.com
The website tells you who represents various artists. But if you read fast it comes out a little differently.

3. Molestationnursery.com
Former website of a medical clinic. Apparently the web approach didn’t attract as many clients as they hoped for (or maybe the wrong ones).

4. Expertsexchange.com
Instead of the intended association to IT and software (Experts exchange) most people thought this had something to do with sex change. They later changed their name to experts-exchange.com.

5. Cummingfirst.com
I’m not going into details here, but most of you probably didn’t guess that this is the homepage of First Cumming Methodist Church.

6. Speedofart.com
Childish butt-humour… Should of course be pronounced; Speed of Art!

7. Viagrafix.com
Via Grafix are specialists in computer graphics. At first glance it looks more like one of the addresses you get in your daily SPAM box. They later changed their name to tutorials.com.

A simple test to find out where to recruit the right person for the job…

Put about 100 bricks in some Particular order in a closed Room with an Open window.

Then send 2 or 3 candidates in the room and close the door. Leave them alone and come back after 6 hours and then analyze the situation.

If they are counting the bricks. Put them in the accounts Department.

If they are recounting them… Put them in auditing .

If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks. Put them in engineering.

If they are arranging the bricks in some strange order. Put them in planning.

If they are throwing the bricks at each other. Put them in operations.

If they are sleeping. Put them in security.

If they have broken the bricks Into pieces. Put them in information Technology.

If they are sitting idle. Put them in human resources.

If they say they have tried different combinations, yet not a brick has been moved. Put them in sales.

If they have already left for the day. Put them in marketing.

If they are staring out of the window. Put them on strategic Planning.

And then last but not least…

If they are talking to each other and not a single brick has been moved. Congratulate them and put them in top management.

Very few people bother to read the end user license agreements as they are, to be honest, quite boring. But then again you might discover restrictions and limitations you never thought would be covered (lawyers are clever bastards). A friend of mine tipped me off about the following from Mac:

THE APPLE SOFTWARE IS NOT INTENDED FOR USE IN THE OPERATION OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES, AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION OR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS, LIFE SUPPORT MACHINES OR OTHER EQUIPMENT IN WHICH THE FAILURE OF THE APPLE SOFTWARE COULD LEAD TO DEATH, PERSONAL INJURY, OR SEVERE PHYSICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE.

Furthermore:

You may not use or otherwise export or reexport the Apple Software except as authorized by United States law and the laws of the jurisdiction in which the Apple Software was obtained. In particular, but without limitation, the Apple Software may not be exported or re-exported (a) into any U.S. embargoed countries or (b) to anyone on the U.S. Treasury Department’s list of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Department of Commerce Denied Person’s List or Entity List. By using the Apple Software, you represent and warrant that you are not located in any such country or on any such list. You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of nuclear, missiles, or chemical or biological weapons.

So now you know! This is why terrorists use PC’s?! [ source 1, source 2 ]

Please feel free to share if you’ve found similar (or funnier) license agreements from other companies.

It appears that the authors of Grand Theft Auto IV doesn’t think to highly about Apple and Apple users?

Kind of an easter egg on Grand Theft Auto IV on one of the computers in the internet cafe:

And another one featuring the iFruit:

Have a great weekend!

This marks the third edition of my funny signs and photos series. I hope you find them amusing, I sure got a few laughs on first impression. The first can be found here and here.

Mind the animals…