look! look!

by jebni on August 14, 2003

This video of octopus camouflage in action has been doing the rounds lately. I find it terrifying — in the way the only really great scene in M. Night Shyamalan’s film Signs is terrifying. As UFOs descend across the globe, (…)

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“who will remember these landmarks unless we tell the world of them?”

by jebni on August 10, 2003

I had to do something fun during my Weekend of Total Braindeath…

hanging on the telephone

by jebni on August 7, 2003

The latest on the Disembodied Women of Microsoft HQ: I’m now dealing with Jyoti, who doesn’t put a husky word out of place. I initially had the suspicion that these women on the other end of the phone — always (…)

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it can only get dumberer

by jebni on August 3, 2003

The “Onward, Britney” range of merchandise (see the backstory: 1, 2, 3) is now available at the Antipopper Store. I’ll post the “open source” iron-on transfer soon, but in the meantime, the commercial route was too funny to pass up. (…)

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remembering dissent

by jebni on August 1, 2003

Last night we had dinner with Sean Scalmer, whom I hadn’t seen for years. His current book project, which documents activists’ personal reflections on their involvement in social movments, put me back in touch with the more visceral feelings that (…)

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