Fine Print - A Warning
Submitted by Tyler Durden on Fri, 02/15/2008 - 20:46.Warning: If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don't you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can't think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it? Do you read everything you're supposed to read? Do you think every thing you're supposed to think? Buy what you're told to want?
Heart Pounding
Submitted by Tyler Durden on Sat, 03/08/2008 - 18:59.I just read an ad that described their gas grill as "Heart Pounding". I am speechless.
Technology Marches On!
Submitted by Tyler Durden on Sat, 03/08/2008 - 18:50.I have always said that nothing drives technology to new levels faster than war and porn. I thought if you could find a way to combined them, technology would make today's advances comparable to the growth of an oak tree to that of bamboo. Well, its finally happened. At least in name. The military unmanned drones, called Reapers are controlled from eight thousand miles away. There are "pilots" whose job it is to fly the drone and and fire the weapons. "Sensor operators" control the weapons to the target once they are fired.
Mother is always right
Submitted by Tyler Durden on Mon, 02/25/2008 - 02:17.My mother (yes I have a mother) received a call from a poll taker concerning the new law in her state that would prohibit smoking in public places. My mother had been a smoker, as was the majority of her generation, for many decades. "You can take Salem out of the country but.......you can't take the country out of Sa-lem" (Its really sick that I remember that because I was VERY young when cigarette ads were on TV). Its also been decades since she last lit up a cigarette.
Consumer Whore
Submitted by Tyler Durden on Fri, 02/15/2008 - 21:07.I am a consumer whore. I have bought two laptops in the last two months. One because it was so small I envisioned taking it everywhere, log in to any hot spot. I have not taken it anywhere. Because it is so small, the larger laptop does not seem to be as useful anymore.
I see all this potential, and I see squandering.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on Tue, 02/12/2008 - 05:42.Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.
