12 PM | 13 Sep

Burning Man consider suing Corporate Portrayal #Burners #BurnTrials [#geekgirl]

Burn Trials- Out of the Maze and into the Playa by “QuiznosToaster”

What happens when you send the characters from The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials to an overcrowded music festival in the desert? You’ll have to witness it for yourself. Things will get toasty on The Playa. Welcome to the #BurnTrials!

Is Burning Man on your bucket list?

A new advertisement that mocks Burning Man’s corporate influences and was itself produced by sandwich company Quizno’s (as a faux-installment of The Maze Runner movie franchise) is so meta and self-aware as to be nearly sentient. At once brilliant and sordid, this is the kind of meta-TV that David Foster Wallace warned us about, may he rest in peace. Oh, and perfectly completing the meta-mind-fuck of this whole episode, Burning Man officials are considering a lawsuit against Quizno’s — for commodifying its culture.

Source & article: sfist

12 PM | 28 Jul

“Hockey tells Kiwis there is no economic crisis in Australia..” [#geekgirl]

[From SBS] “Joe Hockey has told New Zealand that there is no crisis in the Australian economy, nor is it in trouble.

The treasurer also made no mention of the “budget emergency” he and his government referred to when justifying their unpopular budget to Australians.

Instead, Mr Hockey reassured Kiwis that their second biggest trading partner is benefiting from 23 years of consecutive economic growth.

“The Australian economy is not in trouble,” he told New Zealand political current affairs show The Nation on Saturday.

Mr Hockey also denied drastic reforms to Australian healthcare, education and taxes were about ideological change.

He said his government’s reforms were about continuing growth and stimulating other parts of the economy.

“There’s no crisis at all in the Australian economy,” the treasurer said.

“The fact is you need to move on the budget to fix it now, and you need to undertake structural reform to structure the economy in the years ahead.”

Despite the changes, New Zealand has nothing to worry about in terms of its trading partnership with Australia, he said.”