August 10th, 2009 | researchmaterial
My friend Lauren just sent me this.
If nothing else, I don’t need to see the term CAMEL DISSOLVABLES in my email.
For another, check the subtext. These things will also dissolve your teeth and turn your gums black — but Camel figure that no-one in Indianapolis, Columbus or Portland OR really cares about that anymore.
Also, the whole thing’s kinda funny.
WARREN ELLIS
Kieron Gillen - 09 Feb 10
The whole run of Plan B magazine has been released as a single 670Mb PDF. That’s 46 issues of some of the finest music writing of the decade. And a lot of posturing pretentiousness too. It’s like two of my favourite things for the price of one. Or none, as it’s a free PDF.
If you’ve any interest in music in the 00s, or music full stop, this is a great thing to just have on file. You’ll discover a new band every time you browse it.
Hell, it’s even worth getting if you’re one of the games journalist sorts. For the first 10-20 issues or so, I was doing games stuff for it. And Quinns and Mathew Kumar too, who I bullied into contributing. Very much written for the non-gamer about games which get pretty much no coverage, we had fun trying to decode the concept of Outsider Games.
Whole thing here. Go gets!
Coilhouse - 08 Feb 10
Back around the time of Issue 03, we launched the Small Business Advertising Program to create affordable ad space for indie companies in the print version of Coilhouse. By the time Issue 04 rolled around, the number of advertisers had grown significantly – by this time, we had record labels, jewelry and clothing designers, sculptors, other magazines, web hosts, toy makers and graphic designers advertising in our pages. Click here to see them all. With editorial duties taking up more and more of our time as the weeks go by, the moment has come for us to seek help with the advertising side of running the magazine. We’re looking to hire an Ad Manager for our Small Business Advertising Program, starting with Coilhouse Magazine #05… and possibly subsequent issues.
Full details after the jump!
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jwz - 08 Feb 10
Check the appropriate box. Do you or your organization directly or indirectly advocate, advise, teach or practice the duty or necessity of controlling, seizing or overthrowing the government of the United States, the state of South Carolina or any political division thereof?
[ ] YES [ ] NOIf yes, please outline the fundamental beliefs. If applicable, attach a copy of the bylaws or minutes of meetings from the last year.
Open The Future - 08 Feb 10
For those folks who are interested, here's the Slideshare version of the presentation I gave last week at the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute annual meeting. I was asked to talk about foresight thinking, as the event theme was "The Big One of 2056: What Went Right?" a look at a fictional 7.8 quake in the SF region that was handled as well as they could imagine possible.
My goal was to offer a bit of reassurance to the audience that there is some real utility to thinking about the future, and to spell out (in a cursory way) the kinds of big picture issues they should keep in mind while looking ahead forty-six years.
By and large, it was a successful talk. The post-talk questions were engaged, with little push-back, and I'm told that the overall response from the audience was quite positive.
The talk was video recorded, and I'm told will eventually be available to the public. I'll link when that happens.
So, this is how RJR is fighting against e-cigarettes? First they start importing snus, and now this?
Awesome. No longer will toothlessness be just for hill billies- middle america and northwest hippie-ists can get in on the game too.
I guess we do have more teeth than lungs, if that’s how we’re going to think about it.
Oh yas we lubs da gum deeseez sah
[...] …And Get The Same Effect, With A Slightly Smaller Disease Risk. [...]
“hey can I have a stick of gum?”
Sure,here…
“oh god, its awful! what flavor is this!?!”
Ashtray…
(20 min later)
“hey can I have another?”
or how about:
“mmmm… your breathe smells like a chain smokers taint…”
sad to have this tagged onto Columbus, ohio but not surprised. Usually get a lot of test products here since its “middle America” and can give companies an idea of how a product will do over a larger portion of the US / Across demographics.
got a free pack of these when i bought cigarettes the other day. have been afraid to try them however. portland, or is the perfect trial city for these, however, as there are a ton of methheads with really nasty/missing teeth. strategy? lots of toothless tweekers in indianapolis and columbus?
[...] Warren Ellis enlightens us about a strange new product, Camel Dissolvables, a smoke free alternative to cigarettes made of tobacco that literally melts in your mouth. [...]
Wow, talk about free advertising. I’m Sure Camel loves the fact that they didn’t even have to pay you to advertise their product. Unless, they did pay you.
[...] Warren Ellis enlightens us about a strange new product, Camel Dissolvables, a smoke free alternative to cigarettes made of tobacco that literally melts in your mouth. [...]
Sampled this compressed hatred once and only once. It’s like a tiny mint that dissolves into a slimy wad plant matter that made my tongue tingle and my belly roil. I had to smoke a cigarette to settle my seething coils.
@chris Can’t speak for Columbus but on the outskirts of town in Indy we’ve got our fair share of tweakers,inside the city cracks a bigger problem though. I’m surprised a corporation found something more disgusting than Coffee Coca Cola to test on us.
-SH.