“It is hoped that exposing these tactics will help muzzle the growing abuse in our conversational landscape.”.
Conversational Terrorism: How NOT to Talk!, by Dean and Laura VanDruff.
“The only thing that exists is myself.”.
(Bomb #20 in Dark Star; John Carpenter, 1974)
Dark Star: A Science Fiction Adventure.
A screenplay by John Carpenter and Dan O’Bannon.
“The question is, what is a Mahna Mahna?”
“The question is, who cares?”
The Mahna Mahna song (Piero Umiliani, 1968).
Performed by Mahna Mahna and the Snowths, (The Ed Sullivan Show, 1969). From Google Video.
See also:
song history on Wikipedia,
lyrics on poppyfields.net,
audio (mp3) on latke.net,
video (mpeg) on mahnahmahna.net.
“We created DailyLit because we spent hours each day on email but could not find the time to read a book.
Now the books come to us by email. Problem solved.
This works incredibly well not just on your computer but also on whatever the PDA of your choice.”.
DailyLit. “Too busy for books? Read them by email.”.
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“This incredibly annoying commercial is evidence that the end of the world as we know it is near” |
Head on. The most annoying commercial in history and his spoofs.
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“In August 2001, a worn out Fiat Strada began a journey from Stroud to Turin where it was handbuilt (by robots) 25 years ago…”.
(from fiatstrada.co.uk)
Above: Fiat Strada (1978), blueprint detail, from fiatstrada.co.uk.
“Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process.
Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.”.
The Perils of Obedience, from Obedience to Authority by Stanley Milgram (1974).
| “FM3 constructed nine drones, varying from two seconds to 42 seconds, which repeat endlessly until the "track" is switched to the next drone.
In a way, it’s like the cheapest pre-loaded IPod you’ll ever be able to buy.”. “Before we released the Buddha machine, we used to tell people to imagine an old pocket radio tuned permanently to FM3.”. The Buddha Machine. |
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Right: Buddha Machine Blue, price: 25$.
