LinkedIn’s April Fools day joke

LinkedIn-April Fools 2011-01Logging into LinkedIn today I noticed an interesting selection of People you may know.

As these people will probably all disappear after today, I took screen captures for you to have a look at in the future. You can find the PDFs below.

(Yes, I wrote this in April, thought I should go through and post drafts worth posting before the end of the year.) 🙂

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Albert Einstein | LinkedIn (1076 downloads )
Ernest Hemingway | LinkedIn (1033 downloads )
Groucho Marx | LinkedIn (1005 downloads )
J. R. R. Tolkien | LinkedIn (1072 downloads )
John Watson | LinkedIn (1043 downloads )
Robin Hood | LinkedIn (1171 downloads )
Sherlock Holmes | LinkedIn (1075 downloads )
the Hatter | LinkedIn (1072 downloads )
Werner Heisenberg | LinkedIn (1113 downloads )
Wizard of In | LinkedIn (1088 downloads )

 

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Militant greeny’s message for Earth Hour

Are you turning you lights off between 8:30pm and 9:30pm for Earth Hour?

“Turn it off for Earth Hour, or we’ll put your lights out!”

Militant greeny message for EarthHour

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links for 2011-03-22

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Where you’d rather be? State of Inebriation?

Advertising I found in the UTS food court. Some advertising slogans a bit strange. I suppose it makes sense. But I thought it would more meaningful with the added though bubble.

Where you'd rather be. State of Inebriation?

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links for 2011-03-21

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Tin Soldier in Sydney CBD has closed

Walking down York street I thought I would stick my head into The Tin Soldier, and found that it had closed.

Further enquires to their “Perith” store or web site.

As I stood there looking at the sign there were a few workers standing around about to begin the process of demolishing the inside of the shop. They didn’t know anything when it had closed, but offered me the sign from the wall.

I politely declined. Where was I going to stick a large glass Tin Soldier sign?

Tin Soldier closed

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2011 NSW State Election flickr group

Somebody think of the children (in Balmain)I created flickr groups for the last 2 Federal elections [2007, 2010]. And, after seeing all the election paraphernalia I thought it would be fun to create one for the current New South Wales State Election.

NSW Election 2011 flickr group

The Greens and ALP in BalmainThere is just over a week till the election on Saturday 26 March 2011. Come add your photos to the group.The Greens NSW Election advertising

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links for 2011-03-16

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The hole is tarred but not feathered

The hole in the pavement from yesterday has been filled. With a crude tar finish. I suppose they expect the council to come round an tidy it up.

Of note though is that the access to the pipe is much closer to the curb. Which may make putting a nice round corner on that curb a little harder.

BTW, SWCM = Sydney Water Catchment Management

Tar but no feathers

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Water Board finally fixes its leak

Water Board hole full of waterWalking past where the marking I noticed the other day was, this morning I found a rather large hole filled with water.

The Water Board had dug down to the pipe that needed fixing. Although, without all that dirt packing it in it was leaking even more. Their next job was to replace the valve.

Water Board hole with new pipe and valveComing past in the afternoon I see they had finished the replacement. Down the hole was a nice shiny new blue and silver valve.

From a conversation I had with one of the workers, it appears that the old sandstone footpath edge had been send to where footpaths go to die. And that it was the councils job to replace it.

Now to wait for the hole to be filled in again.

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