How about a line of breath mints called Governmints?
“mmm bureaucralicious!”
“even bigger flavor”
“in incumbent or new challenger flavors!”
“made & approved by the FDA”
“take a bite out of big Governmint”
“only $1,000 for the trial size”
Governmints
Nov 11, ’06
5:12 PM
Shutitster.com
Sep 13, ’06
8:53 PM
Sitting through a web conference hyping Web 2.0 and web communities, I realize (yet again) how much I am not that demographic. I have rarely ever chatted, posted to newsgroups, hung out on blogs, etc. So, with the proliferation of MySpace, Facebook and Friendster, why isn’t there a Shutitster which would be a (parody) social network for people who don’t want to be in social network. Similar to some of the pages in those other social networks, the pages/profiles would be a wasteland of empty, default information, outdated items, etc.
The big pitch of the site would of course be the tally of how many millions of people felt compelled by the hype to visit, signed on, created as little of a profile as was required, looked around to decide it wasn’t worth their time, and never returned.
It could have “don’t bug me” buttons, forums/blogs with topics like “coming soon” and “welcome to your blog”.
Book of Spam Poetry
Aug 31, ’05
10:57 PM
Why not make a collection of poetry that’s haphazardly created in modern spam email as the authors try to circumvent filters. It can be quite interesting. Like the cut-ups that Burroughs did.
From an actual piece of spam received August 30, 2005 by “Al Zamora”:
“Eskimos will marry the pediatricians. Disney characters sabotage the
directories of hard rock geologists. Square dancers compose lovely
sonnets about karate instructors. Rodents sicken technicians. Campers,
blenders and troglodytes all claim that screen dumpers hate to be mistaken
for aeronautical engineers. Buildings sabotage the directories of Disney
characters! Geophysicists surprise unwed mothers. The Texaco managers
insist that the electricians dance with reptiles.”
November 9, 2007 Update – Found someone who’s doing illustrations of SPAM subject lines. See it here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/linzie/sets/72157602417089145/detail/
Battle of the PBS Documentaries
Dec 7, ’04
3:26 PM
From a dream. Inspired by PBS’s infamous Ken Burns documentary
spectaculars…
The Gods of Jazz vs. The Big Names in Baseball
In a live television event. Watch them do battle. See all the action in
the wonder of panned freezeframes. Watch each blow land. Each note crush
the opponent.
And if you liked this, don’t forget to Tivo:
The Civil War Remainders vs. Lewis AND Clark
The Onion Article That Wasn’t
Oct 28, ’98
10:49 PM
Elementary school class shares the Nobel Peace Prize as they ended hunger in a small, developing nation with their contributions to the hunger relief program … with image of top ramen being delivered.