Birds of a feather…
I’ll start off this post by saying the letter “E” on my keyboard is malfunctioning, which is annoying as hll hll hll all fuck. Talk about pissing m off. About every third E I type doesn’t show and I have to go back and strike the key HARD. Hey that’s better, I’ll just type harder.
Anyway, the story circulating the intertubes about the mystery chinese iPhone worker girl got me thinking about internet fashions that flash around overnight and die off as quickly, it reminds me of flocks of birds or schools of fish that fly (or dart, as the case may be) in new directions seemingly as one organism. These displays of group behavior have always fascinated me (probably because when the group veers right I tend to drift left). Well, so long as the model doesn’t begin to mimic the behavior of lemmings it’s all harmless fun I suppose (although now that I think about it if a few groups were to jump off cliffs it wouldn’t be so bad).
But the iPhone story is great, and I hope for her sake the evil overlords in management don’t fire her (actually, if anyone should be shit-canned, it should be the nutsack who took the pictures and forgot to delete them IMNSHO). This picture came from Wired.com - where there are more and bigger pics, and more on the story:
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