Dan Hon, ex of Daily-Doozer has relaunched as Extenuating Circumstances. I said a while back that I’d design a site for him, but now I’m a bit torn – I mean, it’s not like his new design isn’t pretty bloody cool. But I did promise at the same time, and I don’t want him to feel obliged to use it if it’s not as good.
Go on, you sexy sexy people. Go and rate plasticbag.org over at blogstart. You know you want to.
It’s a new politics for a new era. Visit Not a Protest today:
“The First Amendment guarantees Freedom of Speech, EVEN IF YOU HAVE NOTHING TO SAY”
Oh my dismal fall from grace. Over the last couple of weeks, I have been trying to reintroduce the counter-cultural spin to plasticbag.org – a trend I hope to continue. But I have hit a “speed bump”.
Yesterday I got a text message from Mella. It told me not to go near HMV, that they were evil and that they had caused (with their sale) her immediate bankrupcy.
“Pshaw!” I thought to myself, “I am not as weak willed as this foolish girl! I can resist these corporate temptations.” Forty-five minutes (and fifty-eight pounds ($85) later), I was forced to confess myself unequivocally their consumer bitch. I was about ten minutes away from begging to give them more money. [You only have to look at the Consumption panel to the left to realise the extent of my horror.]
Kate found it all funny when we got back home. But she didn’t find it so funny this morning, when she reported the “accidental purchase” of six videos…
Perhaps the answer for poor beleaguered Apple is to sign the petition to start making OS X on Intel. If it wasn’t for my suspicion that Microsoft might start withdrawing the use of packages like Office and Explorer, I’d support it whole-heartedly…
Bad news for Apple sends the stock price falling. And unlike every other computer company in the world, what’s bad news for Apple is bad news for Apple users, as quite a lot of the company’s ability to stay afloat has been the absolute refusal of most of their consumers to realise the obvious, give up, and bow and scrape to the altar of Gates. As an Apple user myself, I know this to be true…
The wave of the future is … wait for it … intelligent slime. That would explain the state of the New Media industry at the moment…
It’s got to a fairly sorry state of affairs when I seriously consider putting up a poll on my site to see if I should go down the pub or not.
Important questions in need of answers:
Nasal Hair Dye Ok – this could have been a put on, but I met someone at a party last night who swore you could buy nasal hair dye that made extraneous strands less visible without the continual need to insert sharp things up your nostrils. Is this true?
Which is the best drunken board game? So, you’ve been out drinking, right, and you’ve come home to play board games with your other drunk friends, but you can’t play Articulate, because -well-it’s a bit hard really, and Monoploy just takes too long, and you’re going to flake out in about an hour and you REALLY don’t have enough time or energy to set up Mousetrap. What is the best board game for this time of night?
Lambchop sideburns: yes or no? Come on, ladies. Tell us lads what you think…
In the spirit of culture jamming, I saw a t-shirt today when walking through London that was plain white on black and read: “fuck fcuk“. Bravo.