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Graffiti Bridges Worlds for Cell User

Posted by Zonk on from the live-in-your-world-etc-etc dept.

babokd wrote with a follow up to a piece we ran about the phenomenon of Grafedia, graffiti with links to the internet. The idea has caught on, and 'a communion of the real world with the Internet' may become more and more common. From the article: "It's all around you -- and not just in the phone lines and cables running under the streets or in the airborne Wi-Fi streams....If you send a text message to an e-mail address scrawled in paint on a subway advertisement or on a sidewalk, for example, you could get some digital pop art on your phone in return. An adhesive arrow on a telephone pole could hold the key to the history of a nearby building."

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  1. Bathroom walls..... by AtariAmarok · · Score: 3, Funny

    "For a Good Time, text 443544"

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  2. Cool by lawpoop · · Score: 5, Funny
    You are on a busy street corner. You are next to a building. Before you towers a light pole.

    $> look building

    You see an email address scrawled on the bricks.

    $>grafitti email address

    You get some nice pop art in return.

    $>look light pole

    You see an adhesive arrow.

    $>look adhesive arrow.

    You find the key to neaby building!

    $>use key on door

    You unlock the door.

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  3. Anti-Grafedia ... by Infernal+Device · · Score: 4, Funny

    The campaign to counter all those idiot vandal grafitti advertisers should be titled:

    "Say it. Don't spray it."

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  4. I don't know about you... by Cyclotron_Boy · · Score: 4, Funny

    but I don't want to text "goatse" and get any "pop art" while walking around downtown.

  5. Editors, are they buying you hookers? by spun · · Score: 3, Funny

    Pay for a crappy service that invites people to vandalism and will probably only be used by corporate 'underground' marketing? No thanks.

    Makes me wonder how some things get accepted to slashdot. Then I thought about it and it became crystal clear. If you want a story accepted onto slashdot, you have to buy hookers for the editors.

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  6. It is dark inside by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 3, Funny

    You have been eaten by a grue.