A new dawn is coming. I need to amass an army of mobile developers
“Cutting your dick off.” This is a post about web development clients.
Every so often in my career a client will come to me with a ludicrious request for something that they believe will bring them either extra revenue or web traffic or exposure that I know will completely ruin their business or site.
Now, out of ethics I usually try my hardest to dissuade the client even if I know that the work to do said task and deal with repercussions of said task will bring me plenty of extra $$$ for a long time.
But every so often you get a stubborn client who insists on this really ridiculous plan and you can only just sit back and do it, take the $$ and know that you warned them.
Anyhow something like this happened to me today and I thought of this clip. From now on I’m calling this behavior “cutting your dick off” (for a massive dick-cutting fuckup I call it “invading Iraq”). AKA hastily cutting off your dick to get YouTube hits even though you could’ve just made some funny faces.
I hope that some day this can be entered into permanent web developer jargon. If you are a programmer, please help make this happen.
Kanye West and Spike Jonze - We Were Once a Fairy Tale
Wow, even more delightfully strange and amazing than you could have hoped. Excellent.
God knows how many times I’ve had that night before. Monkey demon seppuku and all (oops spoiler..) f’n awesome spike jonze goodness
Compete.com = Fail.
Wow thanks compete.com for the horribly inaccurate -7,000 unique traffic drop estimate you gave WC this month. As if your already negligent numbers weren’t misrepresenting us enough to begin with.
Just wanted to let you know that according your own f’d statistics, you’re failing.
Colonel Abrams & Boards of Canada - Trapped (Hell Interface edit)
Wednesday Mailbag
A user from Switzerland writes in about our Coke ad campaign running today:
“Hosting ads by Coca Cola and other big companies is a shame.
You disappoint me and i won’t use your site anymore. I thought you were close to the alternative world, but you’re just plain capitalists.
F*ck the corporate world!!!!!!!!
PS. I have to enter the word “revolution” below to validate my msg. Is it random or did you choose it yourself? If so, you deserve to drown in vomit.”
10 years ago I would have been the kid writing that email. Today my biggest goal is to eventually make my living off of selling display advertising. This is the irony of my life right now.
Advertising is still wack though. I hate to live in a world where the entire media economy is based on filling peoples heads with corporate brand names and mindless subliminal nonsense. Right now its a necessary evil but I hope we collectively as an industry at least figure out some effective alternative business models…
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On Sept 13 2001 Eric Venuto and I went up to NYC. It was 2 days after Sept 11th. Eric documented pretty much everything we saw on video and I later edited it for my video class at the time.
Wish I had the source footage & time to re-cut its kinda jumpy and short.
Sorry there’s nothing there yet. This is going to be a tumblr that highlights best of WheresCool stuff.
Just trying to get some SEO points by linking it now…
