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WTF?

By alex | Published: 12/13/2004
A class action lawsuit has been filed against Wal-Mart for allowing thirteen-year-olds across Maryland to hear a dirty word. Turns out that the Evanescence CD has a cover of Korn’s “Thoughtless,” which contains the lyric “Why are you trying to make fun of me? You think it’s funny? What the fuck do you think it’s […]
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Home-Brew IPod Ad

By alex | Published: 12/13/2004
One of the things I talked about as being a significant trend over the next ten years in my “Future of the Net” lecture (which I promised to blog, but did not), was the rise of customer evangelism, and especially customer-created advertising. Apple has already invited such work, both in terms of parodies and original […]
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Overlooked 1990s films

By alex | Published: 12/12/2004
Looking over the Top 100 Overlooked films list, I find very few I, um, overlooked. I probably just watch too many movies. Of that list, there were only a handful I haven’t seen, but there were a number that I count among my own favorites; which, if you also overlooked them, you should think about […]
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Buy Nothing Day tomorrow

By alex | Published: 11/25/2004
Kara reminds me that it is once again that time of year to buy nothing. I plan to take my dog to the park to play (barring extreme cold), and watch some movies. (It’s buy nothing, not “don’t use things you’ve ever bought” day.) What will you be doing?
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