Pleasure and Pain

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Pleasure and Pain: photos by Whitney G. Hess

Entries Tagged as 'Humor'

Photo of the day: No Yes No No

July 3rd, 2009 · Comments · Humor, Photography

That’s her response to the question, “Can I take you home?”
Found in the ladies’ room at Clery’s Bar in Boston, where the An Event Apart after party was held.

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In case of fire: Do Not Use Twitter

June 25th, 2009 · Comments · Humor, Photography, Twitter

Last week this photo was posted to BuzzFeed and made the rounds on Twitter. It’s originally from johnpiercy on Flickr.
I think it looks doctored, but John isn’t sure. It’s just too hilarious to be real!
What do you think?
P.S. If I was caught in or near a fire, I definitely WOULD use Twitter. My followers would [...]

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What REALLY happened during the IA Summit (#IAS09)

May 18th, 2009 · Comments · Conferences

To discover what we were really talking about during IA Summit 2009, Damon Herren used Wordle to create a word cloud visualization from all of the tweets containing the hashtag #IAS09.

And what’s smack dab in the middle? Me! I know I tweet up a storm when I’m at conferences, but the @ prefacing my name [...]

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Photo of the day: No breastfeeding

May 8th, 2009 · Comments · Humor, Photography

Mike Dizon and I went out for lunch around New Work City one day. We walked past Pepe Rosso, a pasta take-out joint on Sullivan St. that Mike insists is the best around. So I poked my head in to take a look, and saw this sign hanging in the entrance:

No
breastfeeding
in Pepe Rosso
of children over
12 [...]

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Digital Conversion PSA

April 30th, 2009 · Comments · Customer Experience, Humor

On June 12, 2009, analog will die.
The Digital TV Transition (DTV) website has everything you need to know about making the switch. There are no less than 50 pages of full text explaining how to painlessly prepare. A variety of downloadable PDFs are available to guide you through the converter box installation process. There’s [...]

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