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Humor: (Dada) Time Waster web sites (2)
Also in the best tradition of the “dadaist nihilistic movement” from the 1920s, this site neither does anything nor provides any useful information – but in difference to the two others we have introduced in a “previous post” this one also has some kind of political aspect and if it’s just a name.
The web site with the title “B.O. Is Your New Bicycle” provides you with a new teaser line every time you click on the text.
Our favorite so far: “B.O. spent the afternoon setting up your router”…
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Humor: Button Paradox
The text on the buttons reads:
Red button: The blue button is true
Blue button: The red button is false
Nice idea…sorry already sold out last night
via “Etsy”.
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Opinion: Obamania or Change You Can’t Believe In?
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There is an interesting opinion piece at Spiegel Online – the web site of Germany’s leading political weekly magazine – on Barack Obama’s run for the presidency.
It compares Barack Obama’s campaign to the Dot-Net boom of the 1990s when for companies key economic indicators like profit, sales and numbers of employees, or experience and realism of the management team were replaced by momentum of the rising stock price.
Interesting read and for those who know the realities of dealing with Multi-Billion organizations or of international diplomacy some quite intriguing comparisons…
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Guerrilla Advertising: Obey in Toronto
A series of strange ads have been popping up in Toronto, Canada during the last days advertising for a product called “Obey” and linked to a group calling itself “WhyBecauseISaidSo”
The punch line on one of the ads reads as following:
My son had ideas of his own.
Obay put a stop to that.
The idea behind it – while this is definitely a teaser campaign – is thrilling and scary at the same time. How many people are actually already using drugs to sedate their children and to make them more compliant? And this at times when governments in western countries are passing laws to create a new form of political correctness or citizenship…
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Time: Cold War Calculators
Those who still remember slide rules from the time before pocket calculators or learned flying a plane before GPS devices became so common will love this site. Others who remember the atrocities of the cold war might have a different approach to these relics from a time we all hoped that it would have long passed…
But whatever approach or understanding for that time you might have the web site “Cold War Calculators” – a site dedicate to radiac calculators slides – might show you some new “instruments” seemingly necessary during this dark period…
We didn’t know there were that many kinds of different calculators for these strange purposes – radiation dosage calculators, bomb damage effect computers, nuclear effects estimators, causality slide rules, weapons effects rules and calculators, fallout predictors, burst calculators…
Anyway – bang you’re gone…
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Quote of the day: Quotes with horses
We were surprise how many quotes or proverbs with horses exist. Below our quick list of the most interesting ones: “I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.” Abraham Lincoln – 16th US President (1861-65) “Speak the truth but ride a fast horse.” West Texas saying “The [...]
