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> 
> > Yeah! Somebody should make spam that only tries to entertain us.
> 
> some time back i was considering entertainment ads: sitting in a bus 
> in helsinki they have a4-sized ads in the back of every seat, ie in 
> the front of the eyes of everybody sitting in the bus. which must be 
> one of the most offensive analogous ways to advertise in existence.

well it's not really SO freaking hard to peel them off 
and stick them back on upside down.  that's what I do.

> i guess it's a cheap ad space because invariably all the ads were really
> cheap-made and bad, which added to the pain (like, they were usually
> medicine or eyeglass ads). somebody rich could play print-ad-robin-hood
> and start putting blank papers or abstract images etc on top of those.
> 
> well there probably are / have been such efforts already. can anybody
> bring me up to date?

well there's zillions of teenagers carrying around magic markers but the 
dumb-ass fuckheads don't attack ads, they attack blank walls and windows.  
I mean, could they be ANY fucking stupider ?

they are mirroring the invasion of public space that ads do.

> actually i think the loesje project achieves something of this...
> everybody's seen them around, right? http://www.loesje.org/
> though their stuff is not always any more entertaining/worthy than ads.

yeah these look kind of lame.  I mean, on the subject of war, 
it's hard to be more provocative than Abbie Horrman: "If people 
were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars."

and the big "Loesje" at the bottom of each poster makes it look 
more like ego-tripping than any serious attempt at culture jamming.
reminds me of Greenpeace, they can't even trim their toenails without 
unfurling yet another giant banner with that dumbass logo of theirs.

I can recommend a monthly read of "Adbusters".  they have it 
in the reading room upstairs at Lasapalatsi.  since 11.9. it's 
been _especially_ interesting.  they're sure not helping Dubya, 
so I guess they're helping the terrorists  :-)  :-)

> > >"note my funky mail address, it's becoming extinct"
> >
> > Darn! You'll lose the @xmenthemobilegame.com -address too, I suppose?
> 
> hmm... i guess domains might be prepaid for for a whole year? so i might
> have anywhere around between 1-364 days left? i don't think i'll bother
> to check it with anybody though!
> 
> that's a very telling address, by they way: someone originally registered
> "x-men-the-mobile-game.com"
> and only later was convinced that nobody can remember or type that, so
> they *also* registered xmenthemobilegame.com, xmenthegame.com, and
> x-men-the-game.com. (that was back when there was loads of funding... not
> that it costs too much anyway, but it's still a good sign of the times...)

how about "xmenthemobilegamesucks.com" ?

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> might be one of the most valuable intellectual properties to sell to eg.
> sony for a ps2 release promo domain when the movie sequel comes out? the
> 2 domain names with "mobile" excluded, of course...!
> 
> jani

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