Kombinat!

737 Dead. More names after this commercial

On Nightline Ted was reading the names of soliders killed in the line of duty.
But we had to break for commercials.
We want to tell you something very important here in this post to
Honor Soldiers Killed in the Line of Duty
but we have to break for this commercial now.
Stay tuned.
We'll be back.
Maybe.

Kombinat! Defense

"There have been periods when things were here and periods when they were here and periods when they were back here, and always just a little noise, a little static in the system. But the static, I suspect, is because Kombinat! like this has to make adjustments, (...) And while some hear those noises and see conflict, I think others hear those noises and expect that what's taking place is the normal adjustments in a complicated set of relationships. Adjustments that simply have to be made.

And if there were silences I suspect it would mean stagnation and decline and disinterest and irrelevance. And what we can say about this Kombinat! is that none of those adjectives apply. It is growing, it is not in decline, it has energy, it has life"

[Applause]

Wehrkunde Dinner Remarks by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, Germany, Saturday, February 7, 2004.

Worthwhile Magazine Not Worthwhile

What follows is an unofficial opinion of Kombinat! regarding the newly launched online magazine titled "Worthwhile". We don't have a fully articualted opinion on this magazine yet. Just bits and pieces for now. So far that magazine has been so fucking boring. Actually it's not Worthwhile at all. It sucks royally. Just horrible. O my God I am going to puke if I read another stupid comment on that site. Did you ready any of those comments on that site? They are so stupid. - As you can see these are just bits and pieces but we are working on a fully articulated opinion we shall make completely official. So far these are some unofficial notes that may not make it into the final copy.

Next Quarter's Profits

Endless Noise Production for the coming months "What do you think about blogs in business?"
Kombinat! vibrates. Let the billion voices vomit Noise. Profit will follow.

Kombinat! Mascot

Kombinat! City - Kombinat!, the first ever Public Domain Corporation has announced today that it will hire a Terrible Tarasca of Spain as its Mascot. Mister Bada Bing! was unavailable for an interview since he was busy teaching Tarasca new tricks for 21st century. However he was overheard saying "it will be great for our Kombinat! Kids initiative. As you can see the monster is nothing to be afraid of."

Leonardo Alegre, the original owner of Tarasca has been dead for over 300 years the Monster has been neglected ever since. This bold move to hire Tarasca in his new role has made him very happy. "I thought people have completely forgotten about me but thanks to Kombinat! I have a new life. Thank you" said the Monster in a brief appearance. Stay tuned for an exciting interview with Tarasca soon.

Masked and Anonymous

"Keeping people from being free is a big business"

Sometimes Masked and Anonymous don't have a Carnival in mind.

Ruination: New Reality TV show

Brought to you by Mike at Vitia who writes: "Here's my idea: Amanda's pageant, I think, would be a great finale for the two-hour season premiere of the new reality series Ruination, after the seven contestants -- the entertainment executive, the chief financial officer, the wealthy senator, the venture capitalist, the successful televangelist, the corporate litigator, the plastic surgeon, the investment banker -- and their families are stripped of all the accoutrements of wealth, their credit ratings ruined, their bellies extended, hairlines receded, teeth crookened, their wardrobes WalMartized"

Kombinat! will be happy to sponsor such a show if we could use the money from one of the contestants

The page 23 meme

Found at Digital Common Sense

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

Welche Spiele liebt er am meisten?

As you can see Kombinat! participates in Noise Production. The profits will come. Just keep the Noise going.

Blogger's Prayer

Link me into existence.
Amen.

Abundance Acronymized

Tom Matrullo writes:

One of the things I seem to be learning from blogging is the extent to which the promenade of one's thoughts can be circumscribed by the texts one inhabits.

There is more there from Tom who points to 'spaces' which made me think this question: Do we inhabit and move through spaces consciously enveloping ourselves in a space to see a different world experience as if an inhabitant might, or do we drag our permanent space with us contaminating the view of spaces we visit? If latter then isn't any attempt of seeing a new world futile, it seems prejudiced by the massness of the space we carry around us which makes an abundance of a world of another a tiny point at the edge of our own space?

Do we then come up with an acronym as a shortcut to point to that abundance? And doesn't that acronym reference our own space pretending it tries to explore the unknown lands?