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Originally posted by Boogerhead:
I think reality is a farce.
Or, at the very least, a satire.

I know I bought a ticket to Noh Drama and want my money back but the fucker who sold it to me lit out for another universe. He said to take it up with his son, as it's a family business, but they nailed him to a tree.

Likely he was trying to pass off Chinese finger puppet shows as The Dark Crystal.

They aren't to be trusted.

Well, reality's impressive but... is it Art?

But is it art?

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It's the nature of both pop culture and people that we reveal ourselves and offer insights into our ever-changing media environment in the small, incidental choices we make as consumers and users of technology.

Actually, I think this is a conceit pushed by marketing agencies to make consumers feel more important and pleased when they make some tiny and inconsequential choice in "personalizing" their purchases, and therefore sell more junk.

Ringtones don't tell me about you. The logo on your T-shirt or your shoes or jeans does not tell me about you. Let's talk. Maybe sit down and have a couple of drinks. Then, you can tell me about you.*

_{* Or, more likely, I'll tell you about me at great length, but these are the risks we take, no?}

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Originally posted by colin:

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It's the nature of both pop culture and people that we reveal ourselves and offer insights into our ever-changing media environment in the small, incidental choices we make as consumers and users of technology.

Actually, I think this is a conceit pushed by marketing agencies to make consumers feel more important and pleased when they make some tiny and inconsequential choice in "personalizing" their purchases, and therefore sell more junk.

Ringtones don't tell me about you. The logo on your T-shirt or your shoes or jeans does not tell me about you. Let's talk. Maybe sit down and have a couple of drinks. Then, you can tell me about you.*

_{* Or, more likely, I'll tell you about me at great length, but these are the risks we take, no?}

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'zackally. Imagine me answering my cell phone while gawlkers examine my intensely, saying, "I can see that it;s art, but what does it mean?"

We all remember Gib saying that today's teens identify with their brand name possessions than their nation?

I'm a software geek. For me, the important choice is vi or emacs.

I'm so not a geek. Let me prove it: what's a vi?

I wanna market a line of flatulence 'incoming call' signifiers. Call them Rim-Tones.

vi and emacs are text-editors, that is, programs made for editing raw text files. Programmers use these things to edit source code.

Both programs are powerful in their own way, but their approaches are fairly different, with vi tending to simple but cryptic, applied in terse and powerful ways, and emacs to the baroque, to the point of having a complete built in programming language.

The choice of vi or emacs is characterized among old-school programmers as a religious question: They're pretty much equivalent, and yet we still fight tenaciously for whichever one we have chosen.

By the way, I'm a vi guy.

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I was a vi guy. IDE's have ruined me.

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I'm a vi guy.

HAs a ring. Definitely better than emac hack.

WOTGreal FTW!

What does this have to do with Unreal TM? lol.

NYPD does not think it is art.

Not so sure I like it either...

OK, This one made me smile.

What is "Obscenity"?

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"The problem with obscenity is no one really knows what it is," she said. "It's relatively simple to paint something as an artistic effort even if it's offensive."

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Originally posted by Boogerhead:
NYPD does not think it is art.

Not so sure I like it either...

OK, This one made me smile.

Those are not works of art, they are propagation at best. I mean its not like they've put a republican candidate on there now have they?

Bit Biased IMO and not only that but the artist should be charged with conspiracy, you can't just put this ideology out there and think "not my fault if someone does it". Thats like doing the same thing for JFK and going "hey not my fault if I predicted it".

The George Bush one was pushing it, though I must admit it was good to see that corrupt bastard getting his comeuppance despite encouranging some idiot.

This obscenity trial is turning into a performance art peice.

Wifey gets her say.

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Originally posted by colin:

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It's the nature of both pop culture and people that we reveal ourselves and offer insights into our ever-changing media environment in the small, incidental choices we make as consumers and users of technology.

Actually, I think this is a conceit pushed by marketing agencies to make consumers feel more important and pleased when they make some tiny and inconsequential choice in "personalizing" their purchases, and therefore sell more junk.

Ringtones don't tell me about you. The logo on your T-shirt or your shoes or jeans does not tell me about you. Let's talk. Maybe sit down and have a couple of drinks. Then, you can tell me about you.*

_{* Or, more likely, I'll tell you about me at great length, but these are the risks we take, no?}

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Ah, but in the profusion of persona in which we live, bombarded by people and their personalities, we use such tiny choices as shorthand, as signs by which we might broadcast to and through the white noise to proclaim identity.

And, if one removes the self as an actual "place" or state of being, then are these little choices any more profound than who we vote for in a presidential election, than which sky god we prostrate ourselves before? And if they are, why are they more important?

"Splain, Lucy."