plasticbag.org

Should a serious issue be protested about seriously? No. At least not when the actions of the entity you are protesting against can be made to seem ridiculous. There is no defence against feeling like an idiot. Aggression causes aggression – being shown up to be absurd cause embarrassment. As Emma Goldman said, “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution”. You could add after that… “I’ll make my own…”

Micro branding reminder: Correct: plasticbag.org – Incorrect: Plastic Bag, Plasticbag or Plastic-Bag. Tag line if required: “Finding Magic in the Mundane.” Origins: Multiple, including self-conscious reference to plasticbag.de, American Beauty, disposability, functionality and modernity. How good is the site: Adequate at best. Have you got a reliable job? No, not really. Do they have electricity in England: Yes. Do you have indoor ‘bathrooms’ yet? Yes. What’s your favourite colour? Blue. Are you ever going to redesign? Er….

Oh (KPMG) and (KPMG) you can (KPMG) keep (KPMG) up (KPMG) with (KPMG) all (KPMG) the (KPMG) news (KPMG) that’s (KPMG) fit (KPMG) to (KPMG) print (KPMG) over (KPMG) at Chris’ site…

1) A couple of cool bits of correspondence at Politech. 2) A fun article at Wired.com: Big Stink Over a Simple Link – featuring lots of good lines and salient points from Chris, one quote from me that makes me sound like an illiterate hacker, and one quote that makes me sound like the Che Guevara of the weblogging world. 3) Chris has also been doing interviews with Wall Street Journal and USAToday. So look out for those. We’ll leave you with this message: Keep linking free, you ass! [We love you: kpmg, kpmg, kpmg]

Keep your eyes on Wired.com today – there seems to be an unusual amount of interesting news appearing. Rumour of the moment: LCD iMacs Due at Macworld. Scientific ‘Wow’ of the moment: Astronomers ‘See’ Dark Matter.

hmmm. interesting.

Jason is a genius – he’s done a parody of the growing interest on weblogs about Danza. You’d think people would get that he was kidding, but no – people who should know better – people who are actually interested in what Danza may turn out to be – they’re citing what he’s saying as if it were solid fact. He’s taking the piss guys – he hasn’t got a clue what Danza is…

And now Jish has even more information…

Hmmm. Interesting – a little research via Google and a tip-off by a rather dubious hotmail address has sent me over to boingboing.net, where there is discussion about something called Danza/WHAT. A little more research leads me to see that the images that seem to be attached to the discussion are being hosted (weirdly) at Craphound.com. There’s only a couple of pieces of actually pertinent information that I seemed to be able to drag out of the hyperbolae of the piece – firstly that it’s relatively cheap and secondly that everyone’s going to have one in five years time…

So I was talking to a friend who’s involved in those weird
industries that predict trends and developments and we start
talking about the mid-future. Mid-future is, apparently, ten-to-twenty
years from now. And we were talking about Bill Gates’ claim that we
always overestimate technological developments that will happen within
ten years, and always underestimate those that will happen within twenty.
Gates’ theory being an interesting analogue of Chaos theory in a sense,
in that the tiny developments that happen now may prove to be the most
significant and transformative. And about half an hour into the conversation,
said friend gets kind of mysterious and smug-looking and I don’t know why.
Apparently it’s got something to do with something called Danza.
But he wouldn’t tell me any more…