Windscreen wiper cooling techniques

Butchers paper to keep the steering wheel cool. Parking ticket for the windscreen wiper.

Diversification of a fitness store

A sign on a fitness store.

That appears appreciative of dropping off sick people.

Semantics of color in different cultures

'Surya is considered an expert on the semantics of color in different cultures.'

Love it!

http://www.microsoft.com/design/People/Detail.aspx?key=surya

Traductions

'Yes, the meat pie of meat of meat pie of pizza pie will be ordered.'

The text after translation from English to French and back again several times, from the original, 'Yes, pizza will be ordered.'

Courtesy of babelfish.

Sao's

"Sao's are stiff like cardboard." Quote by Em, Communications Specialist

Viva usability!

"Steve Job's real contribution is his willingness to bang heads together at Cingular to force them to upgrade their network for the "trivial" reason that it affords a smooth user experience on the device. You could never imagine Ed Zander (Motorola's CEO) call up the head of T-Mobile late at night and yell until they changed their system enough to make the Razr easier to use."

Jakob Nielsen, Alertbox email, Tue 16 Jan 2007