Posts Tagged ‘Uselessness’

K. Rudd visits B. Obama… Solves the worlds financial woes in one fell swoop

Thursday, March 26th, 2009
K.Rudd meets B.Obama in his own pants. Obama seems to think Kev is a pretty cute little fella...

K.Rudd meets B.Obama in his own pants. Obama seems to think Kev is a pretty cute little fella...

In the TOTALLY UNPREDICTABLE and in-no-way-forseeable financial crisis that has struck our western world down like a black plague epidemic, there are few heroes.

Luckily (for all of us), one of those heroes is the Honourable K. Rudd P.M Esquire.

By simply meeting with the new arse to kiss in Washington the President of the United States of Texas, Kev was able to avert the current financial crisis and garantee that it will never happen again.

In order to stop himself using too many acronyms during their meeting, our over-generous and glorious leader took full responsibility for the financial crisis… blending all of his acronyms nicely into one easy-to-remember version.

KFC: Kevin's Financial Crisis acronym cuts through all the politico-speak...

KFC: Kevin's Financial Crisis acronym cuts through all the politico-speak...

Google Street View Australia launched… Yet to be used for anything useful…

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Some STreet View locations are more accurate than others

As you would have noticed on nearly every news service in the country, Google Street View launched in Australia this week and caused quite a stir.

Apparently, the Facebook-loving internet audience in Australia don’t have enough useless, novelty web applications to keep them away from getting their work done, so Google have released their Street View service in the interests of national procrastination.

Employers across the country will be jumping with joy as their payed staff switch between answering their mobile phones, SMS-ing, checking their email 35 times-an-hour, browsing through Facebook and now looking at the outside of their houses with Google Street View.

While many internet applications have clearly definable uses, Google Street View fills the niche of needing to see exactly what the outside of you or your friends’ houses look like.

Some say that in itself doesn’t justify the millions of dollars in development costs – not to mention the millions of dollars of wasted employee hours just using it – for an application that is essentially window-dressing to the already popular (and actual useful) Google Maps system.

A typical 'worker' in the office

But surveys taken by the MIKETRON University Research Labs* shows that 95 out of 100 Australian office workers would prefer for Google Street View to be available to them.

By contrast only 3 out of the 100 workers tested could give us a reason for using the application that didn’t involve looking at their house or their friends’ houses.

Google earned US$10.492 Billion in 2006 from it’s advertising wing. That’s ADVERTISING. They don’t make money out of Street View.

*MIKETRON University Research Labs is a non-existent subsidiary of MIKETRON University. Their ’scientific’ research is mainly based on the Old Testament.