June 2010
20 posts
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People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
” —Banksy, from Cut It Out (via soupsoup: zaschell) (via kateoplis) (via wreckandsalvage) (via ericmortensen)
“The weak, spineless worst president ever, whose abysmal speech yesterday eliminated any hope for American prosperity for countless generations, is such an evil corporatist that he’s… found a way to make BP pay claims. Will he ever “show leadership”?”
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(via soupsoup via jasencomstock)
(via ericmortensen)
“Blaming the Bush administration for its catastrophic failures isn’t just sport. Dems aren’t reminding folks of the Bush/Cheney disaster for its entertainment value. The point is to take accountability seriously and, just as importantly, avoid repeating the same spectacular Republican mistakes. Bush gave the oil industry everything it wanted for eight years. Painfully corrupt Bush administration officials were in bed — sometimes literally — with oil industry lobbyists, who were allowed to write up their own inspection reports. Government regulations and safeguards that could have made a real difference were deemed too ‘burdensome’ by the Bush White House. Indeed, perhaps the most salient criticism of the Obama administration in this entire BP fiasco is that it tried to clean up Bush’s Energy Department corruption, but didn’t try fast enough.”
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Steve Benen (via savingpaper) (via thepoliticalpartygirl) (via ihatethismess)
YES! Exactly!
(via robot-heart-politics)
(via ericmortensen)
This.
“The best Disney films (Pinocchio, Bambi, The Lion King) have always played on the heartstrings of all ages, but Toy Story changed the script. Animated movies now have a dry Seinfeld-ian wit, more Friends than Snoopy and friends. The original Toy Story—co-written by Joss Whedon in his pre–Buffy the Vampire Slayer days—was constructed like a buddy action movie and sprinkled with dialogue that worked on different levels. (Woody calls his rival “Buzz Light Beer.”) The 1999 sequel, about a toy collector who kidnaps Woody, was even better with its sly pop-culture references. Once the films became a phenomenon, a new era of animation was born. There was Wall-E and its homage to Chaplin, Up’s examination of grief, Shrek’s fractured fairy tales packed with sexual innuendo, and the subversive Fantastic Mr. Fox from Wes Anderson. Fifteen years later, it’s hard to remember how revolutionary Toy Story was, because the world of animation is so different because of it.”
—Ramin Setoodeh, “Lightyears Ahead of Its Time” (via savingpaper) (via apsies) (via ericmortensen)
Don't boycott BP. Consume less oil.
It’s not just cars. It’s plastic bottles. It’s CDs and DVDs and records. It’s paint. It’s film. It’s diapers. And thousands of other products.
If you want to make a difference, walk or ride a bike. Stop buying bottled water. Never, ever let anyone put your purchased products in a plastic bag. If you want to punish the oil industry, use less of their product. Giving your money to Exxon instead of BP doesn’t change anything.
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“Having two OSes is confusing. You need coherence.”
—Steve Ballmer, criticizing Google’s Android and Chrome OSes. Balmer is the man behind Windows Starter, Windows Home Basic, Windows Home Premium, Windows Professional, Windows Enterprise, Windows Ultimate, Windows N Editions, Window Mobile Classic, Windows Mobile Standard, Windows Mobile Professional, Windows Embedded CE and whatever the hell they have running on the Kin. (via ericmortensen)
Message From Another Planet
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