• Archive for November 18th, 2007

    Some people are never happy

    by  • 11/18/2007 • art, music • 0 Comments

    I’ve written about this ‘experiment’ that these German noisemakers undertook to try making music without a record company’s input. The past subscriber-driven project attracted approximately 2000 people to pay a fee of between €35 and €65 (today’s price in CAD would range between $50 and $93, though the exchange rate wasn’t as favourable when I [...]

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    Never assume malice when stupidity will suffice

    by  • 11/18/2007 • Vancouver • 0 Comments

    Okay, the basics of the story: Lululemon (Yoga clothing company) makes healthful woo woo claims for clothing LLL plays on sustainable production, claiming seaweed makes up 24% of fabric LLL gets slap on wrist from textile labeling, ordered to remove unproven, untested medical claims LLL claims of anti-stress and amino acids absorbtion are removed from [...]

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