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Ethics among Vandals: DIY Politics, Inc?

We’ve long celebrated reinventions of billboards that advocate everything from pinching bottoms to sexual entitlement, so initially ObjectifyThis was thrilled to learn about the Be Yourself Movement. Flavorwire describes the Be Yourself Movement as “an Italian art collective with an agenda,” by which it means a political movement. The BYM, as they call themselves, is a group of [...]

The Reality of "RealAge": Big Business meets Big Brother?

So you’ve probably heard about Ghostnet, the mysterious online spying network. But have you considered the degree to which your online activity is monitored by big business? I don’t just mean those ads on the side of your Gmail account that spontaneously advertise garden gnomes when you talk about your short hippie friend. I mean [...]

Garfield Minus Garfield: The Analogy With U.S. Politics and Scratching Your Balls

There’s something about U.S. Foreign Policy that’s a bit off. “No, really,” you say, “wow, I thought we were just flouting international law with no possible repercussions because no one will ever have more power than we do.” But recently one perfect analogy of the

"I Am A Consumer Whore! And How!": Don Hertzfeld's Offbeat Humor

There’s something really awesome about parodies of our commercial culture, like the Don Hertzfeld video “Rejection” after the jump (nod, Nadia). Maybe it’s because it makes it easier to laugh at the consumerism and materialism that chronically infect up our lives, or because we get so many messages that assume that we’re consumer whores that [...]

On Bleeding for Seven Days Without Dying(Or Prince Charles)

As a little girl, I eagerly anticipated getting my period. But not as much as Prince Charles does. Dave Barry once wrote that “When Prince Charles speaks, everybody pretends to be fascinated, even though he has never said anything interesting except in that intercepted telephone conversation wherein he expressed the desire to be a feminine [...]