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Dessin : Sitting Man

fran6co — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:13:29 +0000

Sitting Man

Waiting for you

He is very patient

Newspapers are dying. Can Design save them? Sometimes yes.

fran6co — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:51:02 +0000

Link to page on TED.com HERE

L’affiche des Festivals des Films du Monde 2008 : I can has design ?

fran6co — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:18:43 +0000

Apparemment, NOT.

Je ne pensais pas que c’était possible, mais à chaque année le FFM creuse encore plus profond dans la banalité et le mauvais goût. Cette affiche me donne envie de m’arracher les yeux et de les mettre dans le micro-ondes à HI.

Au pays des aveugles, les fumeurs… n’existent pas

fran6co — Sat, 31 May 2008 17:09:26 +0000

À partir d’aujourd’hui 31 mai, journée internationale des non-fumeurs, le gouvernement local a décidé d’interdire aux commerçants d’afficher les cigarettes «et autres produits du tabac» à la vue des clients. Dans le journal une immense page pubicitaire qui titre «Loin des yeux, loin du coeur, et des poumons, et du pancréas, etc.»

Parce que quand la pièce est plongée dans le noir, il n’y a plus de meubles pour se cogner les orteils dessus. Brought to you par le ministère de la pensée magique.

More info ici.

How to poison your children with common household materials

fran6co — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:14:27 +0000

So you’ve gone through pregnancy without drinking or smoking. You’ve taken your vitamins, gotten adequate sleep, regular exercise. Everything you can do to ensure your little one comes out in the best shape possible. And once it comes out, you breast-feed the little bunch of love, ensuring it has the best possible protection against diseases and is generally well-equipped to handle life outside of your belly.

But, says the concerned modern parent, how will my child ever become a normal, common kid like the others at school, with their allergies, with their wheezing asthma? Won’t she be singled out as a freak?

Worry not, fretful breeder. The easy answer lies not further than the corner Pharmaprix. A British study states the obvious – or at least something that was obvious to me ever since I cleand a computer monitor with Fantastik and the beige plastic turned to a tobacco-stained yellowish hue. Apparently, after checking out more that 14000 households, they found out that in the 10 percent of households that used cleaning products the most, the children were twice as likely to suffer those cool respiratory problems that all the with-it kids have these days.

So the products (all very easy to obtain) you want to get and use regularly are :

disinfectant
bleach
carpet cleaner
window cleaner
dry cleaning fluid
aerosols
turpentine or white spirit
air fresheners
paint stripper
paint or varnish
pesticides or insecticides.

You will notice that air freshners are on the same list as turpentine and pesticides. That means there is no need to stink up the house while inoculating your wee babies with the promise of chronic respiratory conditions they will keep for life. A fresh house is a clean house. No matter how sick it makes you.

From the Daily Mail

Sins 2.0 : Welcome to the Social – Seven New Sins

fran6co — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:38:01 +0000

So for all those people that thought they were a-o-k, what with all that generosity and humility and being nice to people, the Vatican has news for you. You ain’t out of the woods yet, pilgrim. Pearly gates will seem like a cruel irony if you forgot to look up the new Seven Social Sins. Notice how the Sins 2.0 are not deadly anymore. Yeah, everybody kinda has it clear that Envy’s not gonna kill you. Okay maybe Sloth, but it takes along time. So what’s the new stuff that’s gonna make you feel extra crappy about just being human and not allowed in Heaven?

Well here they are, the Seven Social Sins.

1. “Bioethical” violations such as birth control

2. “Morally dubious” experiments such as stem cell research

3. Drug abuse

4. Polluting the environment

5. Contributing to widening divide between rich and poor

6. Excessive wealth

7. Creating poverty

That’s it, Fuggedaboudit. I’m definitely going to Hell

Thanks Bloomberg via Boing Boing