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Aug. 28th, 2004 11:38 amI believe ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
kaet has sometimes mentioned the BBC website's habit of reusing generic images in many articles - particularly a picture of a specific chimp in any item related to primates. I am often amused by the cursor-activated captions for such images - for instance the delightfully literal description of the picture at the top of http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3602574.stm
or
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3832305.stm
(scroll down half way to the woman holding her head in her hands)
or even the totally irrelevant kangaroo image near the end of
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3595816.stm
kaet has sometimes mentioned the BBC website's habit of reusing generic images in many articles - particularly a picture of a specific chimp in any item related to primates. I am often amused by the cursor-activated captions for such images - for instance the delightfully literal description of the picture at the top of http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3602574.stmor
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3832305.stm
(scroll down half way to the woman holding her head in her hands)
or even the totally irrelevant kangaroo image near the end of
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3595816.stm
