David Pescovitz:
Pocket-lint has a small photo gallery of hysterical office pranks.
Gizmodo, where I saw this post, is seeking reader submissions of other office
prank photos and will post the best few.
Link(via Gizmodo)
As a public
service, we're bringing you a list of interesting and topical office
pranks from Pocket-Lint. I think my favorite, which appears above,
involves clover seeds (?), a keyboard, board chow, and a bit of water.
The resulting chia keyboard made me pee a little.
If you would like to amuse me today, please send your images of
office pranks to tips at giz. We'll post the best few.
We're getting lots of
fun office pranks, and we might just have a winner. Please keep the
pranks coming, though, and please remember that it's not a prank if
you just stuff your boss in a fridge—this means you R.J. of
Chicago. That's what they call manslaughter.
Keep 'em coming. We'll post the best ones tomorrow.
GADC's demonic Mac Scripting: "Make a Shutdown script and save
it as an applet with a name that in no way implies its true nature.
Then set it up to run on startup or on login. Now whenever the victim
starts up or logs into the computer, it'll shut down. This one is
killer for obvious reasons."
Tim's Birthday Chair:
Disassemble a musical birthday card and carefully tape it
underneath a coworkers chair so that when the chair is leaned back,
the card activates. It took more than four hours for one coworker to
discover the source of the intermittent noise!
And Brendan's Word hack:
Subtle in execution, but so hot when it yields results.
Change the AutoCorrect on a coworker's Word settings such that when he
types in, say "facilitate," it gets auto-corrected to "faliatiate".
Don't have the patience to wait for him to type facilitate? Change
"the" to "teet", and so on.
And the Silver Medal goes to Anthony and his ’84 Westfalia
van cubicle mod. The van cost $400, but the joy it gives is
priceless.
Well, I received quite
a few pranks these past few days. Some good ones, some bad
ones—mice in the blender? Come on Emeril!—and here's the
best of the worst. The Bronze Medalists dealt almost exclusively with
computerized mayhem, which is kind of a cop-out. But you're all
special in your own ways.
The most basic prank came to us from just about everyone. It's
good and important, don't get me wrong, but it's been played.
Essentially, you take a screenshot of someone's desktop and make that
the wallpaper. Hee hee.
Brendan Colby writes:
We took a co-worker's monitor power cable and ran it
through the wall into a separate power strip/surge protector so we
could turn his monitor on/off at our leisure.
Rubin sent us an entire list of possible pranks including, but not
limited to:
Taping up the microphone of someone's phone, causing
them to speak louder.
Put a piece of clear tape on the glass of the photocopier. This is
fun, but it has a second part to it. If the sheer frustration of
someone having to make 100 copies all over again isn't enough, you
could try making 100 copies of the piece of tape, and then load the
paper into the paper feed. Funny to see people go crazy trying to
figure out why the copy is coming up with this square on every
page.
Post a For Sale on the lunchroom posterboard with your co-workers
extension, offering to sell "One size adult XL outfit of baby
clothing, including pacifier, bottle, bib and diaper."
James suggested using BoinkMail which allows you to send embarrassing things to your coworkers. Or
just send embarrassing things to your co-workers.
And the winner of the Bronze Medal is the big, pink office created
by Dan. The performance and planning were quite ambitious, though the
ultimate delivery could have been improved by a hit of Hello Kitty.
Stay tuned for the Silver and Gold medalists later today.
Media Pranks Start When You're Young06/17/2005 03:38 PM National Spelling Bee entrant Dominic Ranz Ebarle Errazo had
apparently slipped in a Napoleon Dynamite reference during his brief
appearance on TV, and then he showed up in the comments on Romenesko's
Obscure Store blog on TypePad to talk about it. Well done, Ranz!...
Here’s a series of real life pranks by a guy from Zug.com who
wanted to see just how important credit security was when he used his
card at various stores and restaurants. He starts out slow - signing
names other than his own, advances to wacky names like Beethoven, and
even devolved into drawing ducks, hieroglyphics, and a little grid
picture. None of it mattered. (The photos are hilarious.) Eventually
he started signing blatant theft…
RE/Search Pranks Festival in San Francisco on Saturday!
RE/Search Pranks Festival in San Francisco on Saturday!12/02/2003 01:39 AM "Fifteen years after it first hit shelves, PRANKS! remains one of the
most important and relevant books ever to emerge from RE/Search's outre publishing
house. In today's current surreal political landscape, a well-executed
prank can do much more than yelling theater in a crowded fire!
In that spirit, RE/Search and The Lab present The Pranks! Festival
(Saturday, 12/6). The Pranks! Festival will celebrate ten Bay Area
artists who appeared in PRANKS! Through art exhibits, panel
discussions, and chaotic socialization, we will fete the fearless
Situationist spirit that San Francisco's pranksters embody. This is a
rare opportunity to engage with prankster pioneers Mark Pauline of
Survival Research Laboratories (SRL), Monte Cazazza, Bruce Conner,
Paul Mavrides, Mark McCloud, Mal Sharpe (yes, of Coyle & Sharpe),
Fluxus anti-artist Robert Delford Brown, John Trubee, tattoo guru Don
Ed Hardy and Jello Biafra (tent.)."
Update: Milton Rand Kalman, Chief Scientist of the
Billboard Liberation
Front, tells us that the BLF will also be making an appearance!
Link
April Fool's Day prompts Google, Apple, Bush pranks
Office 2003 Tool: FabriKam – The Microsoft Office System Solutions Learning Platform
Office 2003 Tool: FabriKam – The Microsoft Office System Solutions Learning Platform08/09/2004 02:30 AM The CHM provides an overview of the FabriKam project and how to use
the FabriKam virtual PC environment and documentation to best learn
about the rich potential of the Microsoft Office System as a
development platform. Each solution and platform component section
described the salient points that help developers focus on areas of
interest.
OpenOSX Office 1.5.1: Microsoft Office ALternative Has Some Hits, Many Misses
Microsoft To Bridge Office, Back Office Apps01/26/2004 01:10 AM Microsoft continues to build bridges between Office desktop apps and
reservoirs of back-office data. The "Information Worker Bridge"
project now under way seeks to make it easier for integrators or
in-house developers to make Excel or Word de-facto front ends for
back-end accounting, ERP or other applications, sources said. In
theory, this would take back-office integration beyond ODBC drivers
and InfoPath, the Office application that lets people build dynamic
forms on their desktops that tap into back-office XML data.
Office 2003 broke (uninstalled) an earlier Office app
Office 2003 broke (uninstalled) an earlier Office app03/06/2004 02:01 AM Not exactly a security story, but definitely related to my earlier
posts today: Installing Office 2003 "breaks" (uninstalls) an earlier
Office application, Microsoft Photo Editor. With effort (and an Office
XP CD-ROM), the older program can be reinstalled, but one...
HyperOffice Brings Enterprise Collaboration and Communication Solutions To Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) Businesses For A Fraction Of The Cost
Corel WordPerfect Office 12: The Other Office Suite
Corel WordPerfect Office 12: The Other Office Suite04/29/2004 04:09 PM While OpenOffice.org might get all the attention in the battle to
unseat Microsoft Office, Corel's suite is the real number two in the
market.
boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/?sortdate=2004-06-25&p=.htm track
this site | 5 links
Microsoft Office 2003 Customers Boost Productivity and Business Insight With the Availability of Two New Office Business Intelligence Accelerators
Microsoft Office 2003 Customers Boost Productivity and Business Insight With the Availability of Two New Office Business Intelligence Accelerators06/02/2004 12:06 PM Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of two new Office
2003 Business Intelligence (BI) Accelerators, the Microsoft® Office
Business Scorecards Accelerator and the Microsoft Office Excel Add-in
for SQL Server (TM) Analysis Services. Designed for and built on the
Microsoft Office System and Windows Server System (TM) , the Office BI
Accelerators provide customers and partners with increased access to
data that is critical to maximizing business performance. Information
workers and industry partners can also use the accelerators to assess
performance in real time and reshape strategy and redeploy resources
as market conditions change, staying one step ahead of their
competition. By taking advantage of existing Microsoft technology
investments, the accelerators are a cost-effective way for end users
and partners to increase their business insight and automate formerly
manual business processes, providing greater efficiency, productivity
and enhanced decision-making.
Office 2003 Sample: Building Office 2003 Research Services That Work Offline
Office 2003 Sample: Building Office 2003 Research Services That Work Offline06/15/2004 12:27 AM To work through this demonstration, you need Microsoft Visual Studio
.NET 2003. With Visual Studio .NET, we use the wizards to build a
simple, custom Microsoft Windows service that launches Cassini, a
managed code Web server that is described in the article, on the local
computer. This Web server hosts the research provider consumed by the
research task pane in Office 2003 editions. The code samples are
provided in Microsoft Visual C# development language.
Microsoft Office 2000 to Microsoft Office 2003 Migration Issues
Microsoft Office Data Assistant for Microsoft Office PowerPoint® 2003
Microsoft Office Data Assistant for Microsoft Office PowerPoint® 200305/27/2004 03:09 AM The Data Assistant for Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2003 provides
an easy-to-use method of inserting and managing graphical data objects
such as Visio drawings, and Excel charts and named ranges into
PowerPoint presentations.
There are three basic features for the tool: inserting graphical data
objects into PowerPoint, saving graphical data objects for future use,
and retrieving saved graphical data objects for reuse. Because the
Data Assistant creates a connection between PowerPoint and the host
application of the data object (Excel or Visio), you have the option
of inserting the data object as it was saved or refreshing it to
reflect any changes that were made to the data object.
Microsoft Office XP to Microsoft Office 2003 Migration Issues
With my Treo 600, I'm already traveling down this path, but I
actually don't mind it and it's not much of a burden. I tend to check
my work email when I'm standing in line somewhere or doing something
equally time-wasting. Except, now I'm not wasting time anymore. So I
figure I'm racking up comp time. :-D
Search Engine Optimization, Inc. Opens New Los Angeles Office to Focus on Serving the Entertainment Industry and Other Local Companies. Search Engine Optimization, Inc. (SEO, Inc.) today announced the opening of a satellite office in Los Angeles to serve the entertainment industry and other local companies, large or small, seeking heightened visibility and a high ROI on the Internet.
The popular wisdom is that it takes Microsoft until Release 3 of
anything to get it right; but the early word on the new Office XML format makes Release 2 look
pretty good. Reading between the lines, the big news is, first, that
the default file-save format is XML and, second, that the XML coverage
is complete (In the current Office XML, PowerPoint is entirely absent
and Excel has big holes). Assuming Microsoft pulls this off, it’s a
major achievement. Along with patching those holes, working around the
basic OLE-container-ness of everything has to be tricky; one of the
nice things about MS Office is that you can jam pretty well
anything that talks OLE into the middle of pretty well any Office doc
and it just works. I have questions around the licensing: Brian Jones,
linked above, says “royalty-free” but the current licensing
language has some clauses that make lawyers nervous, so let’s wait
and see on that one. At one level, it’s sad that while the rest of the world (including, lately, Adobe and IBM) has been
hard at work on one wide-open, shareable, portable, standardized XML
office document format, Microsoft put their energy into inventing
another one. Still, this ought to be a step forward for Microsoft’s
customers. The news coverage says “late 2006”; good luck to the
team in the tough job of getting it shipped.
CUA Office
CUA Office01/01/2004 02:12 AM CUA Office System 2005 Release Now
This comment
at MetaFilter totally nails what's wrong with the concept of
taking a downbeat, dry, British comedy and trying to make it work as
an NBC sitcom:
Here's how fast this goes wrong: in the first scene Carell
says "If you think she's cute now, you should have seen her a couple
of years ago" and "Pam" says "What?!" - Dawn would never have reacted.
The whole point was that everyone in the office was too worn down by
the drudgery and inanity of their jobs to challenge Brent's horrifying
misogyny and other casual cruelties. Because that's what really
happens in every office in the world all the fucking
time.
Mac 911: New Office name
Mac 911: New Office name04/13/2005 08:00 PM If you’re unhappy with what appears on an Office app’s
splash screen, this technique will put you right.
You can force Microsoft Office's Setup Assistant to rerun by
following these steps. By Christopher Breen, Macworld
Art car near my office
Art car near my office12/11/2003 09:40 PM
This cool art-car decorated with a diorama of a scene from the
mountainous outdoors was parked out front of my office today.
Link
I work from home in a room set off by itself, which isolates the
rest of the house from the ungodly noise eminating from my Logitech
Z-680 speakers (now playing: Zappa's "Roxy and Elsewhere," alternating with Outkast's latest).
I spent years working on a cramped desk before I found the one
shown here, which I hope to keep for the rest of my life (since that's
how long I'll be paying for it). Buried under the desk is a system
from VoodooPC, which I recommend
highly. My favorite part of the setup? The dual 21" LCD monitors
:)
Oh, and the two little orange-red desks at the right belong to my
son and my daughter. When I'm not travelling, they claim ownership of
my laptops. My son (age four) is a whiz at Sonic the Hedgehog, while
my daughter (age three) loves her Dora the Explorer games. And they
both get a big kick out of Scholastic's
"I-Spy" video games.
Grok Description matches for Office pranks GrokA matches for Office pranks
The gay attacks on Pauline Kael
The gay attacks on Pauline Kael06/25/2004 09:02 AM How did America's leading film critic, who was fearlessly opposed to
cant and dogma of all stripes, come to be seen as a homophobe?
On your mark
On your mark07/31/2004 02:05 AM USA Today Jul 31 2004 6:04AM GMT
Mark VII
Mark VII06/16/2004 08:47 AM Commodore 64
Hip-Hop that you might enjoy, depending on your tolerance for
lowfi obsoleet funk freakin.
Question Mark #111
Question Mark #11112/16/2003 06:29 PM I just found the super articulated Clone Trooper; fourteen points of
articulation and no place to connect to a stand, what's up with that?
If Red Leader's X Wing were to be made, would you have any information
on what it would look like in terms of details? Do you know which
online retailers are selling the second set of Cantina figures? Find
out the answers to all these questions and more in the latest edition
of Question Mark!
Question Mark #129
Question Mark #12908/10/2004 03:13 AM What came first for Hall of Fame, clear or black bases? How much will
each of the basic OTC figures cost? Will all of the figures that were
supposed to be released in the Hall of Fame lineup be released on OTC
packaging now? Find out the answers to all these questions and more in
the today's edition of Question Mark!
Question Mark #128
Question Mark #12808/09/2004 01:03 PM Has anyone found the collector's cup with Princess Leia at Target? I
was wondering why Hasbro does not use the original 12-back image on
the reverse side of the VOTC cards? Does anyone now what happened to
the Endor wave? Find out the answers to all these questions and more
in the latest edition of Question Mark!
Question Mark #150
Question Mark #15004/01/2005 04:43 PM Can I assume from the AT-TE gunner figure that Hasbro is planning to
issue an AT-TE toy? Has anyone heard anything about a 12 inch Revenge
of the Sith Obi-wan? I found the first wave of ROTS figures at my area
Wal-Mart last week and actually got as far as the register, but they
would not scan; how are others getting around this if they are not yet
in the system? Find out the answers to all these questions and more in
the latest edition of Question Mark!
Mark of a killer
Mark of a killer05/14/2004 06:15 AM USA Today May 14 2004 10:43AM GMT
Question Mark #112
Question Mark #11212/23/2003 02:12 PM Since Sly Morre seems to be a possibility for figurization next year,
it has me wondering if perhaps she's loaned her likeness to the Clone
Wars' own Asajj Ventress? The springboard on my Deluxe Force Powers
Yoda with Super Battle Droid doesn't pop open as suggested, am I doing
something wrong, or is my purchase defective? What odds do we have,
however slim they may be, that when Lucasfilm says we're getting the
"original trilogy on DVD" do you think it's at all possible they mean
the true originals not the special editions? Find out the answers to
all these questions and more in the latest edition of Question Mark!
Mark Hemphill
Mark Hemphill02/13/2004 03:49 PM I meant to mention this earlier. Mark Hemphill's running a weblog over
at TypePad. Go check it out. I've only known Mark for a few months (we
met back at Zap; he was the guy directing the filming and interviewing
that was going on) but I'm convinced we're long lost brothers. We have
very similar backgrounds, career paths and interests and are quickly
becoming very close friends. Mark, like me, has recently returned to
PEI after years away: Toronto, San Francisco. And, like me, has
brought back with him a beautiful Ontario bride. :-) Mark is another
great thread in...
Question Mark #15706/05/2005 11:52 PM Is there going to be a Celebration 4 in 2007? Are Shaak Ti, Mon
Mothma, Luminara Unduli, Ask Aak, and Meena Tills in Revenge of the
Sith and I just missed them? Will there be any bigger Star Wars
vehicles in the ROTS line? Find out the answers to all these questions
and more in the latest edition of Question Mark!
Mark(et)ing Nondiscrimination
Mark(et)ing Nondiscrimination06/05/2005 11:52 PM A little-known piece of intellectual property, the certification mark,
provides a viable mechanism for employers to commit not to
discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. With just a few
clicks of the mouse, at www.fairemploymentmark.org any employer in the
country can license the "Fair Employment Mark." It is an...
Question Mark #110
Question Mark #11012/12/2003 04:17 PM Do you know if the Build Your Own Lightsaber Kit was actually ever
released? What kind of paint Hasbro uses on the figures, and what can
I use to remove it? I recently moved to NYC from LA, what comparable
store/place to Puzzle Zoo in SoCal could I find in the city that never
sleeps? Find out the answers to all these questions and more in the
latest edition of Question Mark!
Question Mark #130
Question Mark #13008/13/2004 02:01 AM Is there any indication that holographic figures will replace the
silver exclusive/promotional figures from now on? Are new the Clone
Wars figures going to be the animated style or are they going to be
regular style as well? Any word on if and when Hasbro could produce a
12” Episode II C-3PO? Find out the answers to all these questions and
more in the latest edition of Question Mark!
Mark Your Calendars!
Mark Your Calendars!06/16/2004 10:10 AM Hallmark's 2004 Keepsake Ornament Premiere is coming up fast...
On Your Mark, Get Set, Unwire!
On Your Mark, Get Set, Unwire!12/25/2003 05:37 AM Matt Adams, founder of a company that creates mobile multiplayer games
fusing wireless virtual space with real space, talks about his current
and future projects. Xeni Jardin reports from Madrid, Spain.
Question Mark #148
Question Mark #14803/28/2005 08:03 PM You never have returned to the issue of Marmits, is it dead? With the
huge demand for Master Replicas, have you heard of any plans to do
Boba Fett’s blaster rifle, or Chewie’s bowcaster? What's with the
EPIII Sneak Peak Wookiee Warrior?! Find out the answers to all these
questions and more in the latest edition of Question Mark!
Mark on Microsoft07/20/2004 10:56 PM OK, this is positively the last time I’m going to post here saying
“Go read Mark
Cuban’s latest,” the word about his high-energy
naked-truth-at-great-length unpunctuated explosions must have pretty
well gotten out by now. The subject this time is the Microsoft
dividend, which is pretty big news.
Question Mark #151
Question Mark #15104/07/2005 05:07 AM What figure is the rarer of the two #23 Royal Guards, the blue or red?
Why does Obi-Wan #1 have an ignited episode 1 and 2 lightsaber and an
episode 3 un-ignited hilt? Has anyone heard or seen any reports about
Hasbro continuing the 12" for EP III, or any news for a 12" Obi-Wan EP
III style? Find out the answers to all these questions and more in the
latest edition of Question Mark!
'Spider-Man 2' Set to Top Five-Day Mark (AP)
'Spider-Man 2' Set to Top Five-Day Mark (AP)07/04/2004 10:06 PM AP - Unofficial estimates Sunday put the gross for "Spider-Man 2" in
the $150 million to $155 million range since the film opened
Wednesday, which would shatter the record for best Wednesday-Sunday
opening set in May by "Shrek 2" with $129 million.
Question Mark #124
Question Mark #12407/02/2004 02:34 PM Of the six Saga Jedi Council sets that are listed on the Rebelscum
site, which represent council sections from Attack of the Clones and
which are from the Phantom Menace? Does Hasbro even acknowledge the
poor quality of plastic that they have been using lately or do they
fain ignorance? I'm still a bit confused, what's the difference
between the up coming new "vintage" figures and those of the OTC line?
Find out the answers to all these questions and more in the latest
edition of Question Mark!
Question Mark #123
Question Mark #12305/20/2004 04:12 AM Are there any plans to do any more mini LEGO sets? Do you think we'll
see all 92 vintage figures ”re-released” in the OTC line? Will there
be more Marmits or what? Find out the answers to all these questions
and more in the latest edition of Question Mark!
Question Mark #125
Question Mark #12507/29/2004 02:51 AM Is it just me, or has Hasbro really dropped the ball on the Jedi
Council scenes? Hasbro really seems to have taken a step in the right
direction with the new VOTC collection as far as sculpts and
articulation goes, but are they going to be released in more "opener"
friendly packaging? I was wondering when Episode III comes out,
wouldn't it be better to have two different kinds of figures? Find out
the answers to all these questions and more in the latest edition of
Question Mark!
Question Mark #119
Question Mark #11904/26/2004 01:04 PM Why is it that the "collector's characters" figures are scaled down
compared to the rest of the figures? Has anyone else mentioned finding
a variation on the 12-inch Garindan? Can you list what the original
release for each of the Toys 'R' Us multipack figures was? Find out
the answers to all these questions and more in the latest edition of
Question Mark!
Question Mark #120
Question Mark #12004/28/2004 07:00 PM Are there going to be any more updates to the vintage line within the
Rebelscum Photo Archives? Have you heard any info about deleted scenes
on the Trilogy DVD's? Can you help get some definite facts about the
Jawa Sandcrawler? Find out the answers to all these questions and more
in the latest edition of Question Mark!
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Office pranks
The following phrases have been identified by the grok system as matching this entry: "mark pauline" stu
Pocket-lint has a small photo gallery of hysterical office pranks.
Gizmodo, where I saw this post, is 
As a public
service, we're bringing you a list of interesting and topical office
pranks from Pocket-Lint. I think my favorite, which appears above,
involves clover seeds (?), a keyboard, board chow, and a bit of water.
The resulting chia keyboard made me pee a little.
We're getting lots of
fun office pranks, and we might just have a winner. Please keep the
pranks coming, though, and please remember that it's not a prank if
you just stuff your boss in a fridge—this means you R.J. of
Chicago. That's what they call manslaughter.
Some of the mid-level attacks
include:
Well, I received quite
a few pranks these past few days. Some good ones, some bad
ones—mice in the blender? Come on Emeril!—and here's the
best of the worst. The Bronze Medalists dealt almost exclusively with
computerized mayhem, which is kind of a cop-out. But you're all
special in your own ways.
This cool art-car decorated with a diorama of a scene from the
mountainous outdoors was parked out front of my office today.
