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Satire’s obituary will be featured in Sunday’s Times

Here's a pretty old legacy post from the blog archives of Geekery Today; it was written about 21 years ago, in 2005, on the World Wide Web.

The posts have been coming a bit slowly lately because of a couple of different projects that I've been fiddling with for the past few days (more on that in the very near future). Recent discoveries in the public arts, though--thanks to No Treason 2005/08/12--demand notice.

You may have already known about the Baltimore city government's post-2001 revival of Socialist Realist agitprop:

poster: Watch, Ride, and Report poster: a Chinese propaganda poster

What you may not have known about yet is that the British government has decided to make everyone feel much safer with the following poster:

poster: creepy eyes floating in the air with the caption SECURE BENEATH THE WATCHFUL EYES

I'd make a joke, but the problem is that reality is outpacing any parody I could try to draw up.

Jesus. Don't these people read?

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  1. Sergio Méndez

    And now the news confirm that the guy they shoot in the subway didnt had a suspicious attitude or wearing..wonder what is the next idiocy Mr Blair will come to say…

  2. The Heretik

    Read about the campaign. Hadn’t seen the ads before. Oy.

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