FIGURE F

One of the Simply Palm ads. We're not showing a large picture because it's just not necessary to pander to the problem.

Considerably before Palm came out with its Simply Palm campaign, another publication used sex to sell Palm devices. Read managing editor Denise Amrich's article "Brave new world or same old crap?" in the September 1998 issue of PalmPower at http://www.palmpower.com/issues/issue199809/brave001.html.

Warning: do not visit the following links unless you are over 18
Shortly after the Simply Palm campaign was distributed, an enterprising fellow named Jason Kottke created a parody called "Simply Porn". The remaining links in this section contain may contain some explicit and offensive material, so if you're under 18, clean up your room and pick up your socks. If you're over 18, use your own judgement.

Womensnet writes about how the Simply Palm campaign angered women. To read it, visit http://www.igc.org/igc/wn/hg/palmporn.html.

Visit Anti-pornography activist Nikki Craft's page on this subject, at http://www.igc.org/nemesis/ACLU/Porn/3Compalm.html.

For an article detailing how a satire of the annoying Palm ads became a legal problem visit http://www.salonmagazine.com/tech/log/1999/04/05/simply_porn/.

For a mirror site of the offending satire, visit http://www.peterme.com/simplyporn/.

Jason Kottke's apology at http://web.0sil8.com/.

If you go the April 15 archive of Raw Nerve magazine you can read another article on the subject, entitled Simply Palm? Simply Porn. You'll need to first go to http://www.maximag.com/nerve/ and then navigate into the archive and, finally, look for the article.

Heather McDaniel contributed to this project, pictures by David Gewirtz.