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  1. Re:killers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Microsoft To Construct iPod/DS/PSP Killer

    Why?

  2. Re:THE ARTICLE FAILS IT! by cerah · · Score: 1 · on Hall Of Technical Documentation Weirdness
    I ran across a site containing funny interpretations of airplane safety literature but I couldn't find it at the moment.

    I believe you're referring to AirToons .

  3. Re:THE ARTICLE FAILS IT! by Heywood+Yabuzof · · Score: 3, Funny · on Hall Of Technical Documentation Weirdness


    Here you go.

  4. Huh by sg3000 · · Score: 5, Informative · on Hall Of Technical Documentation Weirdness

    I know that this page should have been funny, but for some reason, I'm not laughing. And I'm even familiar with the works of Pablo Neruda.

    I kind of expected something like "Engrish" or the often funny Airtoons (but it's probably only funny for those of us that fly a lot). Or even, the hasn't-been-updated-since-the-millennium Kibo and his amusing criticisms of font use or Gerald Holmes, which has outlived the silly .com web awards that are featured on his site. Hooray for Gerald!

  5. is anyone else distressed by this: by Savage+Henry+Matisse · · Score: 4 · on Anti-Dot-Com Slogans Pepper SF
    there was a campaign encouraging locals to vandalize SUVs and luxury cars, partially out of vengeance and partially to scare away the rich arrivers, who are pushing up the cost of living. (It was called the Mission Yuppie Eradication Project.)

    There were campaigns like this in the suburbs of Detroit and Chicago in the 60's, too. But, those were to keep African-Americans and "foreigners" from moving in or staying. Isn't this a sort of distressing reaction to a shift in population demographic? Isn't SF supposed to be an almost mystical land of community tolerance and acceptation? If "artists" (you know, the voice of culture, those who spend every day slaving to prove that human beings are at least a notch above rabid dogs) are stooping (or, god forbid, gladly taking up) subtle (and not-so-subtle) terror tactics, isn't the art scene already dead?

    As for BlowItOutYourMonkeysButt.com (or whatever the hell it's called,) some of the material is funny (in a sort of AIRTOONS kinda way), but it seems to me that the whole campaign is just howling-at-the-moon brand rage: futile not only in its tacit attempt (stickers will kill this dot-com bullshit about as quickly as a water hose will put out the sun) but also in its execution (by setting yourself up as not-A [we hate them dot-com coloninc services!], you basically guarantee that every time you impress your message on someone[look, honey: those artists really hate e-colonics], you're also passing on the much-loathed message you're trying to resist [honey, do you think we should get ourselves colonically irrigated online?]. )

    Oh, crap; does any of this make sense?