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• Politics and the English Language - George Orwell
  (tags: writing politics philosophy english)

You and I should make a website in which we tell people to post their videos to youtube that show them, in their hatred for a product or property, burning or destroying that product or property. I think that nerds would enjoy it, being one myself. Nerds are obviously the largest group of internet users, and certainly the ones who patronize websites that aren’t Nutscrape.com. Nerds enjoy negativity. They enjoy technical products. They enjoy wonton destruction. Let’s mix them together! We would have them apply a tag that is unlikely to occur otherwise which we would then post to our website.

Perhaps some portals or big time nerds would start passing it around enough for it to catch on. Catching on would mean, say 25k hits a day.

If it caught on (THE BIGGEST IF), it would 1. be a slap in the face to the creators of certain types of garbage output, a very public slap, which they would deserve. These are ANTI-COMMERCIALS. TUNE IN! Hopefully raise the level of quality what is available to us as consumers and 2. Actually be a ploy to get people to enjoy said site and then turn it around on them and basically call them jerks for patronizing such a wasteful blah blah blah, which would get us our second wave of attention which would be how we would sell the t-shirts. I’m putting all of this out here so I can say ‘SEE’ if it does work. We could have a whole second site that goes through all the destroyed items and says how they could have been used in a more creative way instead of destroyed and do the whole hippy nonsense, then a third site again in which we actually destroy that one too! WEEE.
And this will prove I said it before I did it.

I’m actually on a new idea now which is the same general one, but slightly modified. Anti-commercials. They exist already though. But those anti-commercials are trying to repeat the language of commercials. They should trump them by being actual people. All those fake actual people giving you advice in commercials make me sick. So to trump them people need to actually submit them themselves. ‘I am not an actor’. Remember those? Fucking liars!

Needless to say, that was some quality procrastination right there.

• How to live happily with a great designer
  (tags: blog design webdesign)
• Media Link Dump - YouTube for 07-25-06
  (tags: video art fluxus media)
• An open letter to Luke Wilson from Steely Dan
  (tags: funny)

• Bush flags stuck in dog shit
  (tags: bush shit funny politics)

• Neologisms on The Simpsons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  (tags: tv simpsons english culture wiki list)
• Snowclone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  (tags: english wiki)
• List of catch phrases - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  (tags: english wiki list)

• A timely Calvin and Hobbes strip
  (tags: comics iraq)
• Linguist has message for Democrats | Chicago Tribune
  Obamarama
  (tags: politics culture)

• LearnItalianPod - Learn Italian Language with Podcasts
  (tags: ipod italian podcast)
• the show with zefrank - 07-14-06
  Ze covers ugly MySpace pages (something I know a thing or two about) and the democratization of design
  (tags: design funny video)
• i knows me some ugly myspace - voting page
  (tags: myspace design funny)

• visualcomplexity.com | A visual exploration on mapping complex networks
  (tags: design art media programming cool mapping)
• Newcleus Treasure Trove - Moistbox
  (tags: music mp3)

• Peter Saville Procession: On The Passage Of A Few Persons Through A Rather Brief Period Of Time by John McCready
  (tags: saville situationist read culture designer)

First: the Wikipedia Contrail

The short version is, you can type en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ into the browser to see what articles you have read on Wikipedia.

• Willie Hitler - Hitler’s nephew
• Douglas Rushkoff - I just read Media Virus, so I wanted to know more.
• Interactive Telecommunications Program - Rushkoff teaches there.
• Alex Chilton - Lead singer of Big Star, I heard some of his solo work and wanted to know more.
• Haile Selassie - This guy is actually God incarnate for the rastas.
• The Nova Trilogy - Possible reading.
• Wilhelm Reich - From the Burroughs cut-up trilogy, needed a refresher.
• Charles Baudelaire - This came from a very late night discussion, wherein I had no idea what I was talking about.
• Toynbee Tiles - There’s one on Michigan Ave.
• Arnold J. Toynbee - From the Toynbee Tiles link.
• Clyde Tombaugh - I saw a song dedicated to this guy somewhere, so I wanted to know who he was. Pretty cool.
• Jane Byrne - Checking out obscure Chicago history references
• Oda Nobunaga - This guy was at the top of a Japanese list of the most important people of all time. I had never heard of him.
• Chevy Chase - I heard he was an asshole and that he was in a band with Donald Fagen (it’s true!). Plus I wanted to see what he was up to.
• Edsel - It’s a car. Like the Homer.
• Genesis P-Orridge - Reading about him in Media Virus, wanted to see what s/he was up to.
• 23 (numerology) - I’m pretty sure I got there from the Genesis page, numerology is BS though.
• Pareidolia - Great word for seeing things that aren’t there
• Stigmergy - This is related to my work, sort of.
• List of Bahamian Musicians - Trying to find out more about Exuma the Obeah Man.
• Raymond Hains - An underrated French artist. I saw a piece of his in Vienna that was one of the best things I’ve ever seen in my life.
• Decollage - What Hains practices.