Interruption with edges and corners

I already posted my rant here about the strange combination of rounded and cut-off corners in the ZDF’s football design, and even though the design is much less bad than the message, that is the missing image thanks to the blackout in Vienna where apparently the signal for all stations worldwide is routed through (by contract) from the UEFA (except Switzerland, since Basel, where the match took place, is in Switzerland, so that the ZDF was able to take SF’s signal later on), I do have to complain about the edges and corners of this screen (which is similar to the natíonal league’s results tables, if I remember correctly) in this long sentence, which I’m also wondering whether you guys even read it completely – slanted in one place, rounded in another, slanted and rounded in yet anotrher – who’s designing stuff like that?

interruption

Translation: Interruption – The lines from Basel are interrupted. Please have a little patience.

Anyway, I’ll go and continue to celebrate… :jubel: :applaus:

I’d prefer dating scam spam…

100% safe…since there’s ususally a photo included, but you can’t have it all, another Anghela is hard to find. So this mail here (the image on the right was not included) is just a generic 419 scam – except that it’s not from Nigeria but South Africa (or at least claims to be) –, promising a multi-million sum for a pretended money transfer.

And, alas, the senders translated their English (which is maybe not completely perfect, and at any rate quite complicated for automatic translation) automatically into German, making it somewhat funny – in German, that is, so this is not really something funny for you English readers, sorry… Let me just mention that their statement about this business being “100% safe” turned into “100%-Safe”, i.e. a 100% safe/vault, hence my little image on the right.

Their English original (which they also included) isn’t really worth reading, but for the sake of completeness, I included it here:

Show the English scam text ▼

Having a ball, marketing-wise

envelope Oh, a thick envelope from an unknown sender in my mailbox – with something inside feeling like make of plastic with a valve to inflate it. Is that yet another marketing gag with more or less useful objects (we remember the razor/discount cellphone/toothbrush parcel campaign for something by Tchibo, later seized by others), with the sender hoping that as many blogs as possible mention it? Shall we really do them this favor?

Now who is the sender? Aha, a web hoster I didn’t know yet. (So one goal accomplished…) With 100% in customer ratings at Webhostlist. Well, my hoster, all-inkl.com [affiliate link], got 100% too. :)

But of course wo open this envelope, curious as we are. What is appearing? A red and transparent inflatable beach ball with the hoster’s web address on it. So certainly no mysterious deeper meanings involved.

Of course I’m not the only recipient: MoehBlog, Blogspan, NetzNews (all German), and who knows who else may follow…

The way the valve is looking at us…

Ball

…it’s right, flat like that, no ball looks good. So take a deep breath… … … and get up (it’s hot here!), fetch the balloon pump from the cabinet, and:

Ball inflated

…it really looks better this way.

Better than the accompanying ad banner on their website:

Ball banner

Which translates to: “Promotion offer! / You save up to / On all webspace packages / 0€ setup fee”.

“Save up to” how much? Up to 0 € setup fee? (And yes, it was a static image, no animated one that might show the sum later on.) Maybe they should work on that banner… Update 10:20 pm: The did, as I just noticed: “up to 50%”.

Well, thanks for the ball and for giving me another topic for a blog post.
:bigsmile:

Music Quiz 20

Welcome to a new round of my music quiz, again with a few easy(?) picture riddles depicting a song or band name.

1.) Which song title (from which artist) is this?

Musik-Quiz 20.1

Gelöst von Stephan: “Love Is Like Oxygen” von Sweet.


2.) Welcher Liedtitel (von wem) ist das?

Musik-Quiz 20.2

Gelöst von Julia: “One Headlight” von The Wallflowers.


3.) Und welcher Liedtitel (von wem) ist das?

Musik-Quiz 20.3

Gelöst von Julia: “Kayleigh” von Marillion – zusammengesetzt aus (englisch gesprochen) “kay” und “Lie”.

E8-Grafik von John Stembridge / Wikipedia


That’s it for today, thanks for participating!