Fear the Bloomberg Bozo
One of my Denver-area buddies, fellow Apple consultant J. Charles Holt of PEBMAC, was checking the Bloomberg Mobile iPhone application (click opens iTunes) this morning to see how the market was doing. What he found in the app is something downright weird -- Bozo the Clown. Charles originally posted this find on MacRumors.
Being the skeptic that I am, I followed his instructions, took a screenshot of the app's opening screen. As you can see from the image below, there doesn't appear to be anything odd with the picture:
At certain angles it does appear that there is something in the leftmost monitor. Charles sensed this, brought the photo into Photoshop, and did a bit of work with the Brightness / Contrast feature. (see the results on the next page)
Not having Photoshop, I made a screenshot on the iPhone, sent it to my Mac, and opened it in iPhoto. I played with brightness, contrast, and sharpness, and here's what resulted:
Yep, folks! It's Bozo the Clown! The image below is an enlarged picture from the screenshot, while the real deal is below that:
What does this all mean? Are all investors Bozos? Are the folks in Washington, DC all Bozos for proposing the bailout? Or did an iPhone developer have too much time on his/her hands?
A tip of the Bozo hair to J. Charles Holt
