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March 18, 2008 by Mark O'Neill | 11 commentsBy Mark O’Neill
I am a bit of a nut for business cards – I normally change mine on a regular basis – and so I fell off my chair laughing today when Matt Cutts over at Google posted an old business card on his blog which has to go down as the best one ever invented. The next time I get cards made, I am going to get ones like these!
What’s the most inventive card you’ve ever seen? What do you have on your cards? Anything really geekish? I just have a boring name, address, phone number routine but this card has inspired me to be a bit more creative next time!
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I once got a card from a guy at a science fiction convention that listed his occupation as “Natural Insemination”.
Back in the late 90s I had cards which had a cartoon longhair with a computer (ala Gates circa 70’s) on the front, and on the back were lots of cartoon caricatures of folks bashing, or being bashed, by their pcs. I’ll try to find one and email it to you…
The humor and cartoons helped get my Computergeek Services business of the ground. People couldn’t remember me, perhaps, but everybody in this litle town knew about those cards.
“You’re the GEEK!” they would say….
my current business cards are really bad…. i had them printed a few months ago and all the ink is coming off and now they look really ugly!!
I saw a metal business card with a barcode cut into it. The barcode is the guy’s social security number! I think it belongs to the head of Microsoft security…something like that. I said to the friend who got the card from him, “that’s kinda a bad idea…” and he said “would you know what to do with the number?” “No, but somebody else would.” “Trust. It’s about trust. Anyone he’s giving this to isn’t going to f* with him.”
and the guy isn’t concerned at all about identity theft?
The thinking is that he’s well-respected enough by the people in possession of his cards that they wouldn’t mess with him on principle.
I assume you’ve seen Mitnick’s card?
No, who’s Mitnick?
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You’re joking, right? Kevin Mitnick, as in “Free Kevin”? First guy to go down majorly for cracking. He was banned from computers for years…police and courts all afraid he could launch a nuclear war from a payphone.
His business card breaks out into a set of lockpicks.
He is the “Head of Security for Microsoft” he is proving a point that he can give you his SS# and you can’t do anything with it because his is secure and covered!
I liked the Un-Ltd. part.
That caught my attention. The rest seemed as silly as Camelot though. However, it seems like a person’s WOW history.
Many years ago in the UK in malls they had little machines that you put in a few pounds entered your name and you could print out something like 25 cards as pictured above.