Re: [rumori] The Grinch who stole the Universal Product Code


From: Chris Ball (ball2000ATball2000.com)
Date: Fri Dec 15 2000 - 20:58:33 PST


Swap UPC symbols!
Why didn't I think of that! It's genius! It's so obvious once you look
at it! It's so fucking elegant!

We should start a UPC site for art supplies and stuff! Walgreen's sells
CDRs and Minidiscs! And what if you want a magazine but hate the
publisher! Or you like Coors Beer but hate their politics! Shopping to
save the planet!

The savings! The savings!

UPC as Universally Personalized Consumption!

It's the most exciting idea I've heard in a long time!
Thank you for showing it to me!

(And thank you for blessing Droplift with the mantle of Controversy - it's
so much more than it (my track, anyhow) deserves!)
Steev Hise wrote:

> Fri, 15 Dec 2000 found Chris Ball writing:
>
> ->Whatever happened to including a stolen UPC code? I liked that idea.
> ->Maybe from Cyndi Lauper's greatest hits, or Sting, or Madonna.
>
> There's a mexican group called the Mejor Vida Corp that has
> done a fake upc project:
> http://www.irational.org/mvc/barcode.html

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