If you're reading this in English, you can thank nuclear weapons.

I've really got to put some effort into writing something new.

But for now I'll just pass along links to other short postings that are already just comments on links to other news articles.

For some reason the word simulacra comes to mind.

Any way - start clicking here.

And even though I know sod all about fashion this quote seems apropos today:

“My God, don’t they know? This stuff is simulacra of simulacra of simulacra. A diluted tincture of Ralph Lauren, who had himself diluted the glory days of Brooks Brothers, who themselves had stepped on the product of Jermyn Street and Savile Row, flavoring their ready-to-wear with liberal lashings of polo kit and regimental stripes. But Tommy surely is the null point, the black hole. There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.”

—William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

PR is a great story btw.

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Jeff