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"You WON'T look like a DORK!" [Fri, 5-Aug-2005 1:15 PM]
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Yes, it's that time of year again: the primary impact that Burning Man and methamphetamines have had on the computer industry is the SIGGRAPH Fashion Show. This year we learn that, In The Future, your clothing will look like an office building's HVAC system pooped on your head.

Oh wait, that was last year too. Nevermind.

"The event's latex-clad emcee and founder, Isa Gordon, referred to herself as the 'cyborg host' and read her lines from a head-mounted teleprompt running a Microsoft operating system. The device, which rested over one eye like a pirate patch, crashed several times during the show, then died mid-show when batteries ran out, requiring a return to paper scripts."

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[User Picture]From: [info]kyronfive
Fri, 5-Aug-2005 1:25 PM (UTC)

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That's plastic tubing, tubular crin, and foam in her hair, and i think it looks like complete ass.
[User Picture]From: [info]bifrosty2k
Fri, 5-Aug-2005 1:27 PM (UTC)

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I hope it revolts and suffocates her in her in bio-goo ALA tentical porn.
[User Picture]From: [info]chloralone
Fri, 5-Aug-2005 1:29 PM (UTC)

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These people are a prime reason why the Quaker lifestyle seems so appealing.
[User Picture]From: [info]eminence_gris
Fri, 5-Aug-2005 2:39 PM (UTC)

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I think you mean Amish. Different bunch.

The Amish lifestyle is attractive until you realize that it means "no deodorant" and "no air conditioning".

I work in downtown Chicago, and we get a suprising number of Amish people wandering around the Loop. They ride the train in from some big Amish community out in central Illinois. You can definitely detect them if you are standing downwind.
[User Picture]From: [info]drreagan
Fri, 5-Aug-2005 1:33 PM (UTC)

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And just what is wrong with looking like the office building's HVAC system pooped on your head.
[User Picture]From: [info]jwz
Fri, 5-Aug-2005 1:36 PM (UTC)

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That is so 1998.
[User Picture]From: [info]baconmonkey
Fri, 5-Aug-2005 1:44 PM (UTC)

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I remember seeing Captain EO too.
[User Picture]From: [info]pir_anha
Fri, 5-Aug-2005 2:10 PM (UTC)

Re: "You WON'T look like a DORK!"

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ya know, i am torn -- this or the octopussy? i can't decide.
[User Picture]From: [info]nidea
Fri, 5-Aug-2005 2:17 PM (UTC)

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And we thought the 1930's vision of the future was quaint.
[User Picture]From: [info]fantasygoat
Fri, 5-Aug-2005 2:53 PM (UTC)

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Why does the new version of the future suck so much when up until the 70's it was so cool?

[User Picture]From: [info]rambletron3000
Fri, 5-Aug-2005 3:41 PM (UTC)

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We stopped going to space, started worrying about pollution and the dystopian future. ST:TNG was probably the last 'rosy' view of the future, whereas everything else has gone post-apocalyptic.
[User Picture]From: [info]kungfupolarbear
Fri, 5-Aug-2005 3:00 PM (UTC)

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If Windows will be running headgear I have to wear in the future, I'm just gonna kill myself now.
[User Picture]From: [info]bluce
Fri, 5-Aug-2005 3:10 PM (UTC)

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Heh, Isa is an old friend of mine from, you guessed it, Burning Man.
[User Picture]From: [info]pygmalion
Fri, 5-Aug-2005 4:40 PM (UTC)

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And you probably did her hair :)
[User Picture]From: [info]recursive
Fri, 5-Aug-2005 3:29 PM (UTC)

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I, for one, welcome our new HVAC overlords.
From: [info]unclefemur
Fri, 5-Aug-2005 3:53 PM (UTC)

Laurie Anderson

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Brings to mind Laurie Anderson in the 5th Element. God, what a crappy movie that was!


[User Picture]From: [info]pygmalion
Fri, 5-Aug-2005 4:07 PM (UTC)

Re: Laurie Anderson

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Laurie Anderson in The Fifth Element?
[User Picture]From: [info]leolo
Fri, 5-Aug-2005 4:04 PM (UTC)

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This looks more likely to be what people will be wearing soonish :
[User Picture]From: [info]pavel_lishin
Sat, 6-Aug-2005 4:08 PM (UTC)

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What's that from?
[User Picture]From: [info]transiit
Fri, 5-Aug-2005 5:10 PM (UTC)

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See, it's all about the molded plastic unibrow for me.

Can't get enough of that hot unibrow action.

-transiit
[User Picture]From: [info]jwz
Fri, 5-Aug-2005 5:12 PM (UTC)

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That's a CyberTiara, you insensitive clod!
[User Picture]From: [info]flipping_hades
Fri, 5-Aug-2005 5:18 PM (UTC)

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She had a headcrash. Outstanding.
[User Picture]From: [info]baconmonkey
Fri, 5-Aug-2005 5:41 PM (UTC)

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you know, it really seems like a whole lot of work for the paultry payoff of attaining Queen Of The Nerd Convention status.
I mean a starving refugee will tell you that a PB&J sandwich is the most amazing tasting thing if he hasn't eaten in days.


Also, I thought that vision of the future went bankrupt when the dot-coms did?

besides, everyone knows this is how people will look Our New Future.
[User Picture]From: [info]will_sargent
Tue, 9-Aug-2005 7:39 PM (UTC)

Queen Of The Nerds

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AFAIK, Ellen Spertus still holds that title.

http://people.mills.edu/spertus/Geek/

Her outfit actually looks better than the title picture's as well...
[User Picture]From: [info]xenogram
Fri, 5-Aug-2005 5:55 PM (UTC)

Laced to the nipples!

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Slap her in a corset, and you wouldn't be able to tell her from most of the gothic prima donnas in my end of the world.
From: [info]snitrocket
Fri, 5-Aug-2005 6:15 PM (UTC)

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Wow. They also managed to cross Tina Turner with Molly from Neuromancer.

[User Picture]From: [info]dossy
Fri, 5-Aug-2005 6:26 PM (UTC)

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Dude, when you said "psycho hose-beast" you weren't kidding!
[User Picture]From: [info]tiff_seattle
Fri, 5-Aug-2005 6:56 PM (UTC)

Battlefield Earth!

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[User Picture]From: [info]edlang
Fri, 5-Aug-2005 8:09 PM (UTC)

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Yeah, because they're going to have so much fucking oil with which to make all these plastics.

Perhaps a process of oil-reclamation from crappy pseudo-futurist costumes will be invented and save the day.
From: [info]snitrocket
Sat, 6-Aug-2005 8:53 AM (UTC)

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I'm sure you mistyped - you meant oil-reclamation from crappy pseudo-futurist costume wearers, right? Sure, olive oil is better, but in our bleak dystopian future, only the overlords can afford that.