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		<title>Bad Packaging: Caffé Nero Waste Everything We Have Left</title>
		<link>http://wordsby.me/2009/06/16/packaging-caffe-nero/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Caffé Nero,
Can you please explain this?:
Why does a single biscuit need so much packaging?
When people talk about environmental responsibility, social responsibility, global warming, carbon neutrality, peak oil, the melting of the polar ice caps, rising sea levels, changing sea currents and overflowing landfills &#8211; where were you? What are you thinking? Does all of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear <a title="The waster's website" href="http://www.caffenero.com/default.asp" target="_self">Caffé Nero</a>,</p>
<p>Can you please explain this?:</p>
<div id="attachment_454" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 460px"><img class="size-full wp-image-454" title="biscuit" src="http://wordsby.me/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/biscuit.jpg" alt="biscuit- or symbol of man's limitless ability to destroy?" width="450" height="338" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Biscuit- or symbol of man&#39;s limitless ability to destroy?</p></div>
<p>Why does a single biscuit need so much packaging?</p>
<p>When people talk about environmental responsibility, social responsibility, global warming, carbon neutrality, peak oil, the melting of the polar ice caps, rising sea levels, changing sea currents and overflowing landfills &#8211; where were you? What are you thinking? Does all of this somehow not apply to you? Do you have an exemption because you sell coffee?</p>
<p>Have you been unable to hear, digest, understand and accept that we need to change the way we live? What will it take for you to realise that your biscuits are symbolic of attitudes that are leading our planet to the brink of collapse?</p>
<p>Yours,</p>
<p>Me</p>
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		<title>Existential Resistance: Direct Action in the War on Denial</title>
		<link>http://wordsby.me/2009/01/14/existential-resistance-direct-action-in-the-war-on-denial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Me</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy/Religion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[celebrating intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[denial of death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[existentialism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re all going to die!
Sorry&#8230; in the first of my series of nice ideas and general acts of intelligence, I present a series of stickers by the Existential Resistance Army. Intended to interrupt daily life with messages designed to create cognitive dissonance in the minds of the mindless, these stickers should help us all remember [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>We&#8217;re all going to die!</p></blockquote>
<p>Sorry&#8230; in the first of my series of nice ideas and general acts of intelligence, I present a series of stickers by the Existential Resistance Army. Intended to interrupt daily life with messages designed to create cognitive dissonance in the minds of the mindless, these stickers should help us all remember the urgency of the need to live!</p>
<p>You can <a title="Existential Warnings" href="http://www.wordsby.me/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/the_existential_resistance.pdf" target="_self">download a PDF version of the full sheet of stickers here</a>.</p>
<p>The messages include:</p>
<ul>
<li>This jacket will not make up for the emptiness you feel within.</li>
<li>The money you spent on this bag could pay for education, health and social care of a child in the third world.</li>
<li>Volunteering would have brought you more joy than this tawdry display of  sartorial one-upmanship!</li>
<li>How many bags will it take before you feel o.k. again?</li>
<li>One&#8217;s wealth is measured by the people who fill our lives not by the accumulation of expensive objects.</li>
</ul>
<p>Feel free to print the stickers and insert anywhere that they might bring about an existential awakening. (I believe the stickers were created because of these people: <a title="Benrik - This Diary Will Change Your Life" href="http://www.benrik.co.uk/content/">Benrik</a>.)</p>
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		<title>Dealing with Scammers: a Template for Fighting Back</title>
		<link>http://wordsby.me/2009/01/09/dealing-with-scammers-a-template-for-fighting-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Me</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[activism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fighting Scam with Spam
We keep hearing about vulnerable people who get suckered into sending tonnes of money to distant con-artists. And recently my partner and I have had these scammers nibbling at our fingers. In every case, we were fortunate enough to spot the fib and get away with our savings intact.
How Do We Deal [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1>Fighting Scam with Spam</h1>
<p>We keep hearing about vulnerable people who get suckered into sending tonnes of money to distant con-artists. And recently my partner and I have had these scammers nibbling at our fingers. In every case, we were fortunate enough to spot the fib and get away with our savings intact.</p>
<h2>How Do We Deal With the War on Scams?</h2>
<p>Here&#8217;s how. We responded to a scammer with a mind-bending email which turned the tables on this particular &#8216;<a title="Yahoo - the new word for scammers" href="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/05/29/8378124/" target="_self">yahoo</a>&#8216;.</p>
<p>Feel free to use this email as a template in your own assault on the sneaky cyber-criminals who want to steal your happiness. If you get an email asking you to make any sort of bank transfer, don&#8217;t. But send this email instead.</p>
<blockquote><p>Dear Jeff Fred,</p>
<p>Lovely to hear from you! My brother, Prince Inepped Shwim Shwam has just told me that you have won a BILLOIN Euro Dollars €€€€!!! You have won this on the MegaBank SuperEuro ILLottery. Well done! You have great luck. The Money is waiting for you in Nigerio. Unfortunately I have lost my purse and need some money from you to free up this funds IMMEDIATELY. Please you send me €5000 right now, but before you do this can you email me your:</p>
<p>1) Home address<br />
2) Mother&#8217;s maiden name<br />
3) Shoe size<br />
4) Favourite colour<br />
5) Favourtie sandwish filling<br />
6) How many teeth you have<br />
7) A retina scan<br />
 <img src='http://wordsby.me/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif' alt='8)' class='wp-smiley' /> Your passport number<br />
9) DNA sample taken from inner cheeck using a toothpick please spread the cells on some a pound coin thanks<br />
10) A chip fat<br />
11) Your knees<br />
12) Latest holiday snaps<br />
13) A large skinny soya mocha latte frappe<br />
14) And two sugars</p>
<p>I look forward to sending you lots of money.</p>
<p>Dave x</p>
<p>p.s. Cock off you knob monkey!</p></blockquote>
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