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[http://grist.org/list/lego-bombing-reveals-the-plastic-brick-framework-of-your-city/ What cities are really made of] (red pill warning) | [http://grist.org/list/lego-bombing-reveals-the-plastic-brick-framework-of-your-city/ What cities are really made of] (red pill warning) | ||
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[http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/06/07/496238/video-spoof-shell-has-its-first-spill-at-its-arctic-drilling-launch-party/ Shell Arctic drill fail] video. Yes Men also have a [http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/1034439/activist_pranksters_hang_fake_shell_billboard_in_houston%3A_%22you_can%27t_run_your_suv_on_%27cute%27%22/#paragraph2 billboard]. 7.12 | [http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/06/07/496238/video-spoof-shell-has-its-first-spill-at-its-arctic-drilling-launch-party/ Shell Arctic drill fail] video. Yes Men also have a [http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/1034439/activist_pranksters_hang_fake_shell_billboard_in_houston%3A_%22you_can%27t_run_your_suv_on_%27cute%27%22/#paragraph2 billboard]. 7.12 | ||
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[http://www.ted.com/talks/john_hodgman_design_explained.html The I'm-a-PC guy explains design]. TEDtalk. | [http://www.ted.com/talks/john_hodgman_design_explained.html The I'm-a-PC guy explains design]. TEDtalk. | ||
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| + | '''Writing''' [http://www.dweebist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/commas.jpg Commas save lives]. [http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/09/thai-man-spends-extr.html Typo] costs man three years in prison. Loss of half million dollar [http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/07/dayintech_0722/ spacecraft]. [http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/cafe-brazenly-risks-citation-f.html sign fail]. | ||
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| + | [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/13/bulwer-lytton-2012-cathy-bryant_n_1773672.html?view=print&comm_ref=false Bulwer-Lytton] bad writing prize for 2012. | ||
Revision as of 23:56, 16 March 2013
Environmentalists (and Feminists, not coincidentally?) are often accused of being humorless, even prophets of gloom. Nonsense, humor is a key way to stay sane in the face of the daunting forces and problems we are standing up to (in fact ridicule is an important weapon, as we recently saw when the Heartland climate skeptic conference went bellyup when they overplayed their hand with silly billboards (generate your own!).
See also Culture Jamming
While away the pre-apocalypse laughing at these randomly generated eco-doom headlines.
Mr Burns speaks up for Chevron: We Agree
What cities are really made of (red pill warning)
Shell Arctic drill fail video. Yes Men also have a billboard. 7.12
Humor: video. Evil mad scientists are clearly behind all energy innovations humor/. US is T-Rex of energy use.
All the insanity of modern car culture, in one image
Penn and Teller's humorous take on the subject of bottled water.
Good use for plastic bottles? (humor).
Fun mockumentary on the plastic bag. alt link
Stephen Colbert appeared with United Farm Workers (UFW) President Arturo S. Rodriguez today to testify before Congress about a day he spent working in the fields, having taken up the UFW on its dare to American citizens "take our jobs." (Humor)
Lord of the Rings recycling parody (video).
The Ig Nobel Prizes for science that cannot and should not be replicated. video. Humor for geeks. The mayor of Vilnius ran over a Mercedes parked in a bike lane USING A TANK? (video) He's just won an Ig Nobel prize, the coveted award for research (or, you know, a mayoral publicity stunt) that first makes people laugh, then makes them think.
How Not to save the world (humorous short animated video)
The I'm-a-PC guy explains design. TEDtalk.
Writing Commas save lives. Typo costs man three years in prison. Loss of half million dollar spacecraft. sign fail.
Bulwer-Lytton bad writing prize for 2012.
