The ultimate stockphoto search game

Tonight I was notified by a Twitter user about a redesign of a website. Being a very curious person, I visited the site to see the result. Imagine my surprise when I found out the main focus of the homepage was a series of pictures of some of the company's customers. The funny thing is, that I recognized two out of four people in the pictures. Not because I know the people in the pictures, but because I'd seen them quite a few times before. I remembered using one of their pictures before in a website, after buying it from iStockphoto.com. I was amazed however, because in this website, the pictures were used to create the impression that those were the people working for that company.

Now off course I could pose the question: how far can you take the use of stock photography in your (web)designs. However that's not what I'm gonna do, though you can feel free to respond to this question anyway.

I think this time I'd like to create a game. I'm gonna call it "The ultimate stockphoto search game". Here's the goal: who can come up with the most websites in which the female employee in the following link is portrayed:
female executive smiling

And just for your info: you can also pick websites from my own portfolio :-)

Just drop your findings in the comments!

What's with the secrecy?

These last couple of days I've been increasingly annoyed while surfing the net searching for prices. It's a phenomenon that I've hated for years now, but you would expect that companies would have learned a couple of things about the Internet in the last few years, but apparently they have not.

Of course you're wondering:"What's he talking about?"
Well, I'm talking about companies that have well optimized websites and are paying a shitload of money for Google Adwords, but having terrible landingpages and never showing what you're looking for.

Have you ever tried finding some prices for furnishing an office? Finding prices for desks, seats and other furniture isn't really that hard. But try finding some prices for office carpets, ceilings, stucco or movable walls.
Every stinking time they try to trick you into leaving your personal information so they can stalk you in the near future eventhough I just want to know a price. Is it that hard to give a pricing per square metre? Is it that hard to at least give some kind of indication as for what to expect? I want to at least know if it's gonna be closer to 1000 or 5000 euro, without having to spend ages filling out forms or talking to a telephone clerk.

So here's a lesson to be learned for many Internet entrepreneurs in my opinion. Give us some freaking prices!