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Simply whiteboard (continued)
Oh, and another thing. Whiteboards don't give you sass. You know what I'm talking about…back talk. This is the stuff a computer of any size gives you when it's unhappy. What I'm saying here is that my whiteboard doesn't have an attitude. I can't remember the last time it told me that I had made an error, or that I had to reset it. It never breaks down or goes on the fritz. In fact, if I spill coffee on it, it won't shut down, or break forever. Nope. It'll just have coffee on it.
In this world of technology and technology and more technology, it comforts my soul to know that the whiteboard will endure. Yeah, I know I may sound a bit sentimental and maybe too old fashioned, but I like the knowledge that my whiteboard will make it through Y2K without losing all its info. Because it's simple.
Oh yeah, and suppose the whiteboard companies decide to do a "wonderful" ad campaign like the Simply Palm one we've seen of late. If a woman is required to stand naked with a whiteboard…she'll be able to stand behind it, and retain her dignity.
Product availability and resources
In all seriousness, many readers have been complaining about the Simply Palm ads like that shown in Figure E. In these ads, women like Kate Hunter are posed nearly nude. Why must nearly nude women be used to sell Palm devices?
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.
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Meggan Durst is our Editorial Assistant and Office Manager. Her job is to help us get journals ready for publication, to assist us in our press relations, and to support the other members of the team. She really is a whiteboard fanatic.
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