What of pandemics?
Scares help to sell the vaccine -
Sick society.

Apparently the fine balance between scarcity as a marketing tactic and surplus as a result of a poor distribution has left public health departments with an H1N1 vaccine surplus… so now the ads are suggesting a vaccination (or a re-up for those ever-sickly tykes) – makes one wonder how long it takes for a bureaucracy to produce a single propaganda banner and slap it up on Google’s ad service.

Feeling well right now?
That’s because you are not sick;
Get shots anyway.

You’re thinking PANIC (that’s what the media and the government keep saying) but any right-minded corporation has got to be thinking PAYDAY. [Pandemics are Good for Business]

Fuck the popularity contest – pay me, I’ll be your slave for a while.

Observe Sylvia Plath’s recipe for success.

via Dangerous Minds

Highly recommended for lobbyists and public relations scum.

- Kokain by Sebastian Droste
from Empire of Ecstasy

You can probably survive for: a week without food, a few days without water, a few minutes without air.

If addiction is the easily-subverted basis for perpetuating life, what would happen if you quit everything – the cocaine, the heroin, the marijuana, the sex, the religion, the television, the dreams, the hope, the love, the ego, and the pursuit of happiness?

… and could you survive having everything that you desire?

Some neighbors were at the Walmart a couple of weeks ago, he said, and he rang up their purchase. “Maybe they were used to seeing me in a different setting,” he said—in a suit as he left for work in the morning, or walking the dog in the neighborhood. Or “maybe they were daydreaming.” But they didn’t greet him, and he didn’t say anything. He looked down at his soup, pushing it around the bowl with his spoon for a few seconds before looking back up at me. “I know they knew me,” he said. “I’ve been in their home.”

- How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America
by Don Peck for The Atlantic Online
March 2010

Economic Recession as Vampiric Entity

How does one invite such malaise? The boom years, the lives unexamined, the wrong prescription, and complacency.

Will the ignorance and susceptibility to manipulation cultivated in the US population finish sucking the value out of the dollar and lead the country to the relative wasteland of a developing nation?

… and nothing more.

Ideas rattling around in my skull…

Hypothesis: Intestinal flora imbalances cultured with refined foods are a basis for systemic failure in the human body (there is already plenty of flim-flam out on the ‘net to this effect)

Project: Intricate wood-burning project involving ouroboros design, ceramic inlay, complicated system of gears which slowly changes the color of the snake’s scales and segments to indicate time (fun!)

Systems: Security profiling suite (rootkit, antivirus, user authentication and process profiling) to append to existing infrastructure, integrate with network hardware for covert channel detection (far too much work but it’d be fun nonetheless)

Recipe: Discovered a combination of black bean soup and canned soup which has the color, consistency, and (for the most part) taste of bacon gravy (MAD SCIENCE SUCCESS!)

Project: Should I be making T-shirts? If I were making T-shirts, what would I be making? Probably some really offensive designs… (yes, it’s always a good time to sell out)

[via Dangerous Minds]

XOXO – The Operator