pay less books sale
date: 5 - 7 december 2008
time: 10am - 7pm
venue: 3K inn subang jaya
if you need information (on what exactly, i can’t imagine), call 03-8066 2170 or email info@paylessbooks.com.my and yeah i could have just posted the e-flyer, but my god is it fugly.
out of sheer curiousity, i’ve signed up with nuffnang. have decided i wouldn’t sleep easy at night if josh lim had access to my IC number, mobile phone contact and address.
terms & conditions time:
i agree that i will not in any way act to manipulate the web traffic of my blog.
i’ve blocked all nuffnang and advertlets ads anyway so CHECK
i will not attempt to place ads in unseen, hidden or unauthorised parts of my blog.
i’m not the bloody CIA for pete’s sake. CHECK
i declare that i can receive bank transfers made out to the payee name i have listed above
if you’re giving me money, i can be anyone you like. CHECK
i will not place ads on sites that include pornographic or hate-related content
occasionally i might hate myself, but i think that be alright. CHECK
i certify that i have read and understood the nuffnang.com.my program policies and terms and conditions
understand it? baybehs, i can rewrite it for you if you should so require. CHECK
now to figure out where to put the damn thing.
apparently two employees of BBDO Atmosphere in NYC were caught and filmed having sex in a cubicle. at 5pm.
how lax. no jobs to rush out, guys? must have been account servicing. tsk tsk.
the person who filmed and sent out the video was fired.
And how did the video get out?
I showed a couple of officemates on my phone and everyone was shocked and awed. I downloaded it to my computer and sent it on to two other co-workers and that was all the digital distribution I did and it just went viral from there. And a week later it ended up on Gawker and Mediabistro and then the word got back to me that all the creatives were sending it around. I freaked. I thought it was amazing how something could go viral and end up online so quickly when I had nothing to do with it really. I didn’t call Gawker. I didn’t e-mail anybody.
with no understanding of social media and the power of the internet, it’s little wonder boy genius got fired. must have been another suit.
a link to the video. boring stuff, really.
date: 4 - 7 december 2008
time: 10am - 8pm
venue:
dewan bakti siti hasmah
no.6, cangkat abang haji openg,
taman tun dr ismail
60000 kuala lumpur
facebook spammer coughs up [i'm sure at least one of you has gotten the "bud" spam]
how to get rich if you’re useless
charge your iPod McGuyver style [hoax]
get over your hangover with exercise or a nice fat joint
*cue girly high-pitched SCRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAM*
p/s yes, i’m evil too. your point?
Goldie,
Kabuki
Rolf
Pompom
Jay
Filbert
Lucky
*glitched :(
as alternative reality games go, this was supposedly one of the larger scale ones: Perplex City.
do read it, it’s too cool. i have to do one!
a brief and overly simplistic desciption of an ARG:
Alternate Reality Gaming (ARG) is a relatively new genre of games that encourages players (you!) to interact with a fictional world using the real world to do it.
You’re spending some time exploring the internet and someone points you to a couple sites and tells you that it’s a crazy mystery about some missing monkeys. The first site you visit is everyonelovesmonkeys.com. There, you see pictures of the monkeys doing funny monkey things as well as a list of the monkey zookeepers. All of the zookeepers have email addresses that are something like name@everyonelovesmonkeys.com aside from one. His email is listed as crazymonkey@crazymonkeyman.com. Intrigued, you decide to visit crazymonkeyman.com and see that he mentions concerns that the monkeys have been replaced by robomonkeys! (everyone’s worst fear, of course, is the eventual destruction of man by evil robotic monkeys…maybe that’s just mine?)
What you have done is used your real world computer to explore a bit of a fictional world. You also solved your first ARG puzzle…yay you!
On the high from finding a second website, you decide to send a little email to crazymonkey@crazymonkeyman.com asking him why he thinks the cute little monkeys have been replaced by evil robots. In a few minutes, you get a reply.
Now you are communicating with the fictional world using your real world email. Funky.
While you were waiting for your reply from the crazy monkey man, you poked around a bit more on the everyonelovesmonkeys.com website and happened to notice a phone number and address on their contact page. Out of curiosity, you decide to use a few of your free cell phone minutes to call the number. Convinced it’s a fake, you are completely surprised when someones answered the phone. In a panic, you hang up as fast as you can. (ok, that’s just me… you actually talk to the receptionist and learn that all of the monkey keepers are outside monkeying around… oh, comeon, it had to be said.)
Now you are interacting with a fictional world using your real world phone and your real world you. Wild, no?
Not all ARGs have those exact features and most are much more original than my quick little example. The one thing that ties all ARGs together is that you are interacting with the fictional world using things that you use every day to interact with the real world. Also, you aren’t interacting as a character, as you would in most computer and video games. You also don’t need any special equipment, as you would with most console games. Most games take advantage of computers and the internet (websites and emails) as well as phones and even the occasional live event (finding something hidden in your city, gathering around payphones, or even live parties with character interaction!).
