Obscure Box

Who hasn’t cursed at the automated telephone answering systems that have infected many organisations today? Press 1 for rage, press 2 for even more rage and press 3 if you would like to swear at our automated response system in another language. “I just want to talk to someone,” a very forward UK bank advert [...]

The Australian Government’s Department of Ageing and Health is asking some probing questions of people who complete the consent for the H1N1 influenza vaccine. After the usual name and date of birth questions, it then asks for your sex. But there are three tick boxes to that question (see picture). How very forward of the [...]