island of misfit toys
I don't think I had ever heard of the Island of Misfit Toys before a couple of months ago, when it figured prominently in an anti-iPhone Verizon commercial. Which would...
Archive for Metaphors
Bucket of Does
I saw a billboard advertising the new Droid cell phone yesterday. It had a hard-edged and manly sort of high-tech industrial look to it, and it said: A BARE-KNUCKLED BUCKET...
Block those metaphors
Benedict Carey of the New York Times sure does like using metaphors to describe science stuff. At least, that's the conclusion I draw from reading his article Brain Researchers Open...
parky
She gets fleetingly, gigglingly nude in a rooftop Jacuzzi, but given that we are in London, not California, this just looked a bit parky to me. --Guardian review of...
Pandora’s malware
I was amused by the following somewhat overextended metaphor. ("RFID" refers to Radio Frequency ID chips.) "RFID malware is a Pandora's box that has been gathering dust in the corner...
bitten by backdoors
Block that metaphor! This just in (a couple weeks ago, when I forgot to post it) from the National Weather Service forecast (which always uses all-caps): A MODERATION TREND IS...
better mousetrap
"Any challenger to a market where one player holds 80 percent share not only has to build a better mousetrap but improve upon the mouse," said Jonathan Spira, chief...