Geeky Chic

Edit: Has anyome seen anything about volunteer work to help people
displaced by Katrina fill out legal forms related to relief requests?

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I’ve read about Reverend Billy and his Times Square anti-consumerism
pulpit (I think that Times profile about him came out the day after
Thanksgiving).  I didn’t realize that he had a website, though, until today.  I may be saved.

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Also, the Internet may be the most efficient marketing delivery machine
ever created, at least for me.  It amplifies my consumer whore
bear tendencies.  Even if I don’t see something on the Internet
first, upon “discovering” a new line that I like in a store, I can
immediately go home and find other such products.  Though it portends to “empower” me, it really just makes me an
active participant in the marketing directed to me through allowing me to search out
information about new products (though when there’s a dearth of
information about a product, it may make it more attractive.  For
instance, there was a perverse sense of smugness felt when I found few
links to this recent acquisition).  And now, I’ve
started to keep a running list of ephemeral things
that I don’t really need, but may soon buy (actually, I know exactly
what I am going to purchase on this list: the Lekker votive holder, the
Missoni teapot, Bales’s Disposable People, and the SJAL eye cream).