I just wrote that I get way too many things to believe from AG, but they’re usually in my email inbox. Today the post office box had yet another good thing from AG, a July 4th New York Times (“liberal” is an inapt adjective). AG met up with Yes Man Jacques Servin (nee Andy Bichlbaum, Ray Thomas, etc.) in Los Angeles for an event promoting the Yes Mens’ new movie The Yes Men Fix The World at the Hammer Museum. AG managed to pick up a couple NYTs and sent one on to me. The best thing that has come in the mail in quite a long time. Thanks bucky.
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jmtb02 & Armor Games’ very funny game “Achievement Unlocked.”
[Via Simon Parkin’s article Over-Achievers on EuroGamer.net, which I haven’t read all of]
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Breaking News Alert
The New York Tmes
Sunday, April 26, 2009 — 2:20 PM ET
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New York Times Swine Flu News Alert Prompts U.S. to Declare Public Mental Health Emergency
American health officials on Sunday declared a public mental health emergency over increasing cases of psychosomatic swine flu, saying that they had confirmed 2.75 million cases of the disease in the United States and expected to see more as investigators review tweets, emails, blog posts, and Facebook status updates.
Officials reiterated that swine flu is “a lot like the flu flu” and that “if you wash your hands, you’ll probably be fine,” but acknowledged that most Americans affected with psychosomatic swine flu had probably not read the second paragraph of the News Alert where it was reported that “most of the cases had been mild” and that “the emergency declaration frees resources to be used toward diagnosing or preventing additional cases and releases money for more antiviral drugs.” The officials were similarly resigned that people won’t read this second paragraph either. An unnamed CDC source who asked for anonymity because he’s not authorized to make ‘correlation/causation’ statements said that most hysteria in the United States can be blamed on 24 hour cable news, including “Howard Dean,” “the financial crisis,” and “rioting due to psychosomatic swine flu.”
[The actual news alert was sent out at 1:45ish EDT and linked to this story.]
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At least one student at the University of Chicago who felt perfectly fine before getting a NYTimes.com News Alert over email about swine flu confirmed to us in an interview that he began to feel ‘slightly ill’ after reading the message.
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“UNPRECEDENTED PERFORMANCE: Nothing we had before ever worked this way.”
Rediscovering the classics (and making them useful to us in our everyday lives).
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