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Sinister British anti-cluetrain plot?
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Kevin Marks
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Jun 10, 2002 00:59 PDT
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It seems someone at Microsoft UK wants to make Chris Locke into a liar.
You remember that opening passage from Internet Apocalypso?
http://cluetrain.com/apocalypso.html
| | We die.
You will never hear those words spoken in a television ad. Yet this
central fact of human existence colors our world and how we perceive
ourselves within it.
"Life is too short," we say, and it is.
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Well, some of the millions MS spent on launching the X-box went on an ad
specifically designed to falsify this claim:
| | It starts with a woman giving birth to a baby boy who then shoots out
of a window in a surreal sequence.
Viewers then saw the boy ageing rapidly as he flies through the air
screaming, before violently crashing into his own grave.
The advert ends with the payoff: "Life is short. Play more."
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Fortunately this crisis has been averted. The British Independent
Television Commission has banned this shocking violation of normality.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/new_media/newsid_2028000/2028725.
stm
Is this a sinister quid pro quo deal, with Doc Searls flying in to
dispense clues in return?
http://doc.weblogs.com/2002/06/09#drivingTheSpeaker
Lets leave the last word to Chris:
| | We die. And there's more than one way to get it over with. Advertising
has some serving suggestions for your premature burial.
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