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Month: November 2003
KKK Casualties: Friendly Fire
Hahaha. Hahahaha. Thanks, Adam.
Beginning to Get Angry…
… at the field of economics altogether. Why? Here’s a little taste of what was written in an internal memo about “Dirty Industries”. The memo was dated December 12, 1991, and penned by the head economist of the World Bank at that time, Lawrence H. Summers. Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?… I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that… I’ve always though that under-populated …
Fake Futuristic Ads Of My Own
While I’m posting fake funny stuff, here are a couple of “fake advertisements” I used in my graduate thesis. They were stuck into a story. The idea for the first one was stolen from one of Bruce Sterling’s Viridian List posts. The second came from my own twisted mind.
Victorian Interweb Goodies
Julie at ill-sorted ephemera provided a link to these goodies, of which there are pages and pages to be seen (link below). What would the Victorians have done with the Internet? The Empire-Wide Interweb, of course, would have had stuff like this floating around, to be sure! See more funny Victorianesque Webdiddling here.