It seems the CBC’s digital vice-cop, Websense, considers CBC’s Exposure program to be a “Malicious Web Site.” Really? I didn’t think the films were that bad…

(No, the headline wasn’t a typo. See LOLspeak.)

Okay, fine, so there’s no such thing as a Caption Writer at the CBC. I mean, people do write captions, of course, but it’s usually the story producer who develops the captions (”lower thirds” in the parlance).

But then how do you explain this caption, from one of CBC Television’s “Living” programs (not sayin’ which one), and emailed to me by a viewer.

Airport Dude?! Really?! Did someone lose his business card? Couldn’t we at least have said Airport Official or something? 

Spark producer Dan Misener is getting married shortly. So when he headed over to the H.R. section on the CBC intranet… er, portal… er, iO! to get some information about benefits and time off, he was surprised to find this:

Have you ever had any strange Mothercorp experiences as a result of your own nuptials?

This week on Spark, Virginia Postrel explains the cultural currency of type (full interview) and a chance to play Font, Coffee, or Baby Name? and using zenware to focus on your writing (full interview).

A Toronto viewer who goes by the name qsharp spotted this unusual caption on CBC Newsworld. I suppose sometimes words just aren’t enough…

It’s kind of hard to know where to file this one. But believe it or not, the design on this African dress is purely coincidental.

The dress, known on its retailer’s web site as Office and Career Outfit ca-1011A comes in four sizes and costs $150 (!).

It comes with a skirt, blouse and head-wrap.

According to the promotional material, you can “Wear to work, office or to entertain - with or without head-tie.”)

I dare you.

I seriously dare someone to wear this to work.

Hat tip to Jonathan Pinto.

Needless to say, I get a lot of spam at the email address of this blog. But this morning, I found one that usuallly accurate in its targeting:

To TV Channel
President of the TV B.O.D.

Dear Sirs,

I send you my offer for 410 documentaries to your TV channel for a period of ten years. Samples can be sending on request. Available format is MPEG-II and texts in TXT, also many others format.

I think that the most value of my work is that can be used as DOC-wedges in gaps to the normal channel flow for a long period. I hope to have long term cooperation on these and other works.

Then followed a list of more than 400 short documentary works, such as:

• Roman History Caesars and Coins 11:10
• Roman Emperors Portrait Sculptures 13:01
• Sumo in ancient Greece 2:2
• Ancient Chinese war machines 7:22
• Ancient Greek Sculptures 8:25

Passionate Eye, are you listening?…

Turns out, the CBC’s version of this:

is a wordier, more corporate-looking version:

Who’da thunkit?!

Photo: Peter Rukavina

You’ve got to admire the great illustration Tory pundit Stephen Taylor did to note the recent controversy surrounding a planned airing of a documentary about Falun Gong.

You can see the full illustration here.

The crew at the Gemini-winning The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos have put together a nice little piece about the new and, uh, not exactly popular, recycling program which launched recently at the Death Star Toronto Broadcast Centre.

Called into the Audience Relations phone line:

“Why do all of the hosts and reporters say Toronno instead of Toronto? I know someone there has advised them to do so. I need to talk to that person.”

Nope, those aren’t CBC employees on the CBC’s human resources intranet page…

Unless, of course, Microsoft hired them right after the CBC shoot was done…