Ragevirus.co.uk is not ragevirus.com
Submitted by Dabitch on Fri, 04/20/2007 - 16:39.
This flickr photo taken by Mark McLaughlin shows the red Biohazard stencil currently all over London where the sender is "Ragevirus.com", which isn't the same as Ragevirus.co.uk which is a redirected adversite for 28 weeks later the zombie-virus movie.
Silly mistake? Yes, indeed it's a mistake... But maaaybe, just maybe, the misspelling was intentional in order to create a hubub about it on the web on high traffic sites like Metafilter and personal blogs all over. Naaah.
Mark McLaughlin who took that flickr pic now owns Ragevirus.com - clever bugger seems to have bought it as soon as he saw the misspelled graffitti - while Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation owns ragevirus.co.uk. Mark points out the .com vs .co.uk spelling mistake on his domain and adds:
...hey, Fox - you should probably tell someone off in your marketing team. You silly people.
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Judging by the abundance of googleads, Mark is probably McLaughing all the way to the bank.
*pun*! Drrum-tssck!
Presumably, these 'marketing' people are the same ones that don't understand the term 'Reply to All' in an email application.
Hehe.
Street stencils are so 1999 anyway.