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David Bowie Opens His Own Online Bank

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the scary-monsters-super-creeps-and-low-low-interest-rates dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "David Bowie, the most wired rock star on the planet (he even has his own ISP!) has opened an online bank! What strange times we live in." Indeed. It's a shame there are no physical branches of the bank; I would probably trust banks more if the bank managers were dressed like Jareth from Labyrinth.

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  1. I think he's playing with money as an art form by jsm · · Score: 5

    I think he's just experimenting with all facets of money, trying to get a handle on what it means and implies in our society. I mean, he sold stock in his back catalog, but I doubt he needed to raise money, which is the normal reason for selling stock. I think he's exploring money as an artist would, now that he has the means for these experiments... and how many artists have ever had as much financial means as he does today? Somehow this seems like a very Bowie thing to do.

  2. NEWSFLASH: Bowie OS by RuntimeError · · Score: 5
    Sunday Jan 9, David Bowie, the Rock icon-cum-jack of all trades, announced today that he has released an open source operating system named Bowix [TM].

    According to industry analysts, the 128 Bit operating system is bound to pose a strong challenge to other operating systems such as Windows, Linux and MacOS.

    "People worship me for my music, and people worship Linus for his OS system " David said, "But now they will worship me for both"