Psychedelic Gift Culture Bank Notes

It's not a URL I fancy typing in, or saying out loud, but http://exchanghibitionbank.com/ has some amazing psychedlic-art-gift-culture-bank-notes.

Zero:


1 Million:


Infinite:

Talking Nothing

Sometimes I wonder if we're in such a pickle because we've wrapped our public-facing language into such tidy, useless little bundles. Lucy Kellaway's breakdown [FT, possible paywall] of Larry Page's Google-Motorola-acquisition statement amused me:

These 32 words were last week repeated uncritically in newspapers all over the world, but no one seems to have stopped to wonder: what on earth was he on about?

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Entire. One can’t ever have too much emphasis in a statement of this sort. Never mind that it’s a nonsense in this case, as an ecosystem is by definition entire as it doesn’t come in halves.

[Sidenote: Interesting to see more website playing with the clipboard. FT now adds a polite copyright disclaimer if you copy text from theirs.]