Recently I asked some of my students why we always advertise for things that are for sale, when some of the most important things in life cannot be bought or sold. I even had them do up PSAs. Well, they did them in print-advertisement formats, but I think sometime later, I’ll show them a couple of the ads from the fightglobalwarming.com webpage. If you want to see one of them, you can click under the “think about it” section in the sidebar, or have to look at the exended section of the post.
Tag: politics
OPERATION_NUKOREA
Young Hae Chang’s OPERATION_NUKOREA is enough to make me actually worry about North Korea a little; moreover, it’s enough to make me worry about the fact that so few people I know here seem worried about North Korea. Via the now-defunct but still cool Magnificent Melting Object, which was once run by someone I bet I would’ve gotten along with.
See It, Make Your Own
Chevrolet was asking for mass sabotage when it created a make-your-own-ad page online for some silly contest. Here’s mine. Not the best I’ve seen, but I like it. Go see it — soon. Or make your own. UPDATE: It’ll probably be gone when I wake tomorrow morning, but I got screen shots. Heh. I’ll do ’em up and upload soon…
“The Recent surge in violence”
This is how it’s done: This morning I learned that Pentagon officials have said that force levels in Iraq would not be cut “anytime soon,” apparently because of a “recent surge in violence” sweeping Iraq. But what struck me most about that news was votesomemore’s response in this thread claiming that, “There is ALWAYS a ‘recent surge in violence.’” That got me thinking. Is there always a “recent surge in violence” in Iraq? I Googled the phrase, and discovered that the answer to the question is, well, yes. There are a few notable periods where violence is not reported as …
On V
First off, a little occupatio, in which one starts blathering about the thing which he said he was not going to describe(*): I’m not talking about V the miniseries. V was immensely popular in Korea, so much so that only a couple of years ago, during a discussion over dinner with some old Korean friends, when the show came up, some of my tablemates were spouting out the names of major characters in the show, details I couldn’t for the life of me remember. Lime and I talked about the show recently and she said that it had a major …