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POPSGoogle + Firefox = Free Music There’s a lot you can do with Google if you can take advantage of it’s advanced search features. Expanding on this tip which shows you how to find music in open directories, here’s a step-by-step walkthrough on how to use Firefox Smart Keyword searches to speed up the process.
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POPSDont Drink and Drive - Call a cab The best ideas are often the most simple. This fantastic ad to discourage drink driving is a case in point. Used by the Hotel Marriott in India for patrons of its popular nightclub Enigma, this ‘personal stamp ad’ listing the phone number of the local cab company proved to be so effective the idea is now being taken up by the Mumbai police and is being adopted by other clubs.
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POPSMURDOCRACY Long live the internet as an alternative media outlet. Rupert Murdoch and his FOX News media empire must be taken down.
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POPSFOOD NOT BOMBS- COOK FOR PEACE Food Not Bombs is one of the fastest growing revolutionary movements and is gaining momentum throughout the world. There are hundreds of autonomous chapters sharing free vegetarian food with hungry people and protesting war and poverty. Food Not Bombs is not a charity. This energetic grassroots movement is active throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Australia. Food Not Bombs is organizing for peace and an end to the occupations of Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. For over 25 years the movement has worked to end hunger and has supported actions to stop the globalization of the economy, restrictions to the movements of people, end exploitation and the destruction of the earth.
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POPSDeath of the Pink Flamingo Union Products, the company that has been making plastic Pink Flamingos as lawn ornaments since 1957, stopped production of the kitsch icon a few months ago, and is closing its doors today. This was a year before the Flamingo's 50th Birthday.
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POPSNinjas Killed My Family This bum moved to Philly last year and usedto sport all these crazy signs until the cops pretty much kicked him out of the city.
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POPSHow to Become a Philosopher ave you ever thought you could be just like Aristotle - if you just had the right push? Well, here it is. These are instructions on how to become the philosopher you have always wanted to be.
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POPSUSB humping dog The perfect gift for the “geek” who has everything. This little dog humps your USB port like there’s no tomorrow, and for only about $9.00 it’s a steal. Now the down side, if you can even call it one, is that’s all it does. It’s not a flash drive, it plays no sounds, it just humps your USB port.
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POPSWe Miss Content! - DIY protest The confessions of a generic magazine: “We loaded this issue with more advertising than content. The content we did publish was edited, censored and manipulated to please our advertisers or as lame filler between the product pushing ads. We got paid quite handsomely to produce this issue and are glad you will pay to read what we already got paid to print. Are You Generic?
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POPSArt Army action figures an artist named Michael Leavitt pays homage to artists who he admires (both dead and alive) by creating one-of-a-kind Art Army action figures. “Made from synthetic polymer clay and elastic, the pieces range from 6- to 12 inches tall and feature art icons including Barry McGee, Banksy, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Futura 2000, Shepard Fairey, Hieronymus Bosch, Andy Warhol, Barry White, outsider Joe Coleman, Ron English, “Rat Fink” artist Ed “Big Daddy” Roth, Dale Chihuly, Jim Jarmusch, Billie Holliday and others.
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POPSTV-B-GONE Oh the fun I will have with this thing... kill that boob-tube!
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POPSGrow Your Own 1UP Mushroom The packet claims that eating the 1up Mushroom will grant "immortal life beyond dreams of man." It also has the warning: Do not put in face. To be honest, we haven't gotten up the courage to eat one yet.
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POPSANIMARIS RHINOCEROS TRANSPORT This is absolutely the most amazing art (if you can even limit it to that) I have ever seen. Checkout the films of these amazing "beasts"!
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POPSStarbucks Invasion PROTEST The jam was meant to instigate, to irritate, but to do so inconspicuously. The copy is mildly ironic because it mimics the expression, "I love a good cup of coffee" and loyal Starbucks patrons might not even catch the significance of the word "invasion" thinking the jam just another advertisement.