creativity/machine » silliness http://creativitymachine.net Mon, 26 Mar 2012 22:03:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 LOL everything http://creativitymachine.net/2007/05/25/lol-everything/ http://creativitymachine.net/2007/05/25/lol-everything/#comments Fri, 25 May 2007 00:38:31 +0000 Jean http://creativitymachine.net/2007/05/25/lol-everything/ Via BoingBoing, LOL Presidents:

Via Barry, LOL Theorists:

Here’s one I made earlier:

(Raymond Williams, btw)

And then of course i started making meta-loltheory. Neil Postman sez:

lolcat builder here.

kthxbai

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Seriously, I challenge you to imagine you are a caricature of a businessman, and then to think of any really important knowledge not contained in one of these three books.

Above my (nice big) desk in my hotel room in Boston, which will be mission central for the next 10 days or so.

And by the way, the weather is increasingly lovely – I woke to clear blue skies today.

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Spring in Boston:

That’s just so wrong. Apparently there may be sleet, which I’ve never really experienced. I know that posties go through it to deliver mail, but that’s about it. So that’s exciting, anyway.

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Sony Ericsson handsets are favoured by ambitious young men trying to make their mark; LGs are tops with mums; while Samsungs are wielded by young women focused on their career, a study of mobile phone usage shows.

This is no reworked PR fluff-piece, though – it contains Real Journalism.

Sydneysider Dane Maddams, 21, of Concord, agrees that you can tell a lot about a person by their mobile phone.

[...]

Mr Maddams has a Sony Ericsson K800i and says he could be described as an ambitious young man trying to make his mark.

“I’m definitely not a middle-aged woman,” he said.

I’m not one for the psychoanalysis, but…hello Dane, could you be projecting?

P.S. Guess what, Dane. I’m afraid I have the same phone as you.

And in other news not fit to print, watch out for me fulminating on YouTube in this Saturday’s Courier Mail.

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“what is the purpose of an axel in a machine?”

Well, Axel, what do you have to say for yourself?

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