Cowering under my desk

Christopher Horrell

Mar 5, 2003 — 1 min read

You know, from a web design perspective, the US government site for preparing for terrorist attacks isn’t so bad. I especially love the PDF’s. My favrourite picture has to be the one bellow. Sometimes I feel like cowering under my desk at work, for completely different reasons of course. The wording for each caption is pretty bad, like this one for the image bellow: “Take shelter against your desk or a sturdy table”. Um, it clearly shows the guy under the desk, not against it. So yeah, the whole site is pretty much insane.

I have to thank the Daily Show for tipping me off on this one.

Cowering under desk

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