“The Internet is the most efficient information distribution system ever known. But if you’re not careful, it’s also the perfect way to embarrass yourself in front of the entire world,” Christopher Null writes for PC World.
PC World’s 13 Most Embarrassing Web Moments:
13: Patrick Tribett’s mug shot
12: AOL posting the search records of 658,000 subscribers
11: Cat Schwartz’s nude photos: be careful with Photoshop cropping
10: British Amulet Group’s laying off 2,500 via SMS text message sent en masse to employees’ cell phones
9: CNN’s Kyra Phillips bathroom girl talk during President Bush speech
8: CNN’s online obituaries for some famous but not-quite-dead folks
7: London lawyer Richard Phillips demanding measly £4 restitution from secretary for spilling ketchup on his trousers
6: BBC’s “Apple Computer vs. the Beatles’ Apple Corps” expert Guy Goma
5: Kirk Reynolds, PR director for the San Francisco 49ers, 15-minute primer on dealing with the press featuring racial slurs and nudity
4: The “Star Wars Kid” Ghyslain Raza
3. Howard Dean’s infamous “Dean Scream”
2. Lee Paige, a 45-year-old Drug Enforcement Agency officer, shoots himself in the foot on videotape in auditorium filled with kids.
1. That’s One Way to Rally the Troops: Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, will stop at nothing to keep the legions of Microsoft employees motivated and entertained, even at his own expense. It must have been this spirit that prompted Ballmer to take the stage during a 2001 company event to the tune of Gloria Estefan’s “Get on Your Feet,” performing what was quickly dubbed “The Monkey Boy Dance.” Part “Skip to My Lou” and part Nazi goose step, Ballmer “danced” while screaming at his minions: “Wooooo! Get up! Come on! Give it up for me!” A few days later, an unrepentant and sweat-drenched Ballmer would lead a crowd to repeatedly chant “Developers!” Video remixes of both performances abound.
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We’re not sure how Pam and Paris escaped this list, but without further ado:
Ballmer “Monkey Boy” video:
Ballmer “Developers, developers, developers!” video:
One of our all-time favorites:
“Young FrankenSteve” video:
Someone needs to give him a brown Zune to wave around… (like giving the girl in ‘1984’ an iPod..!!
> We’re not sure how Pam and Paris escaped this list, but without further ado
Everyone’s got the Monkey Boy clip, that’s why it’s numero uno. Without further ado… — I thought you were going to give us Paris! I should’a known … frigging web geeks! Oh yeah… we’ve all got that one too….
Who would breed with this IMBECILE!!!
Someone who’d piss in the gene pool.
Sometimes money CAN buy you love. Although it’d still take one very dark night & one very desperate broad.
Why didn’t any of Microsoft’s various Longhorn/Vista and .Web presentation meltdowns make the list?
What was “6: BBC’s “Apple Computer vs. the Beatles’ Apple Corps” expert Guy Goma”?
Or Northwest Airlines sending employees tips on how to save money when they’re laid off?
Really makes you wonder what is wrong with society when most of us:
a) get educated
b) act normal
c) contibute
and morons like Ballmer have salaries greater than 10 ppls life time income.
Oh and lets not forget in his first international press conference he tells thee world how M$ stock is way to over priced.
Just my $0.02
Really makes you wonder what is wrong with society when most of us:
a) get educated
b) act normal
c) contibute
and morons like Ballmer have salaries greater than 10 ppls life time income.
What’s worse? Freaks like Ballmer, or bozos like Gates hiring him & leaving him on despite years (decades!) of his fsck ups? Gotta love cronyism.
Live isn’t fair, and it’s all luck. It’s what happens when a mutant, who couldn’t qualify for MS’s night cleaning crew, gets in early at a small geek firm that turns into a titan.
Plenty of thanks are also owed to Gates’ mommy & daddy for landing MS an exclusive OS contract with IBM.
But methinks times will be changing. No organization today can survive with that kind of dead weight at the top, and so many deep, growing problems throughout.
I gotta defend Paris Hilton.
She has nothing to be ashamed off.
She swallowed that salami with consumate skill.
“FrankenSteve” is pure GENIUS! Great job!!! Laughed my frenum off!
“Steve Ballmer, portrait of a serial killer”
“Redmond Chainsaw Masacre”
he scares me…..
I’ll always love that cartoon of Ballmer in which he promotes the promoting
sorry, it had to be iPod:
I’ll always love that cartoon of Ballmer in which he promotes the iPod
And they call Mac users a cult.
Developers, developers, developers, developers…
What about Dvorak’s taped video admission of baiting Mac Users?
I personally am gratefu for Steve Ballmer, as I have had lots of laughs courtesy of him. You couldn’t invent a more perfect ass.
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