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Never Forget 1-31-07! Rise of the Moonanites!

Cannot think of a name
01-02-2008, 00:36
http://www.joelogon.com/images_temp/013107-inignot-toonz.jpg
It seems some culture jammers have found the best way to remember the events of 1-31-07 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Boston_bomb_scare), when Boston shut itself down for out of fear of Lite Brites.

With more Lite Brites (http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/01/led_art_all_over_boston_t.html).

This is interesting - it seems that a group of artists have celebrated 1-31-07 in their own way and have created a series of political themed LED art sculptures and (you guessed it) placed them all over Boston.

Awesome.

No doubt the reaction will not be as absurd this time, though this was kind of funny, even if it used one of the stupidest 'internetisms' -
http://blog.makezine.com/thisisnotawarning.jpg

Approve, disapprove? I'm too lazy for a more complex discussion prompt.
Thumbless Pete Crabbe
01-02-2008, 00:42
Mooninites are funny. :p
Sel Appa
01-02-2008, 01:30
Alex, What is Anonymous?
Sarkhaan
01-02-2008, 01:37
They had it on the news here this morning. I had to laugh...really, is it a signifigant anniversary?
HotRodia
01-02-2008, 01:42
I probably never will forget. Especially if they keep harping on it every year.
Call to power
01-02-2008, 01:54
I forgot :(

*lives in the future*
Cannot think of a name
01-02-2008, 02:09
I probably never will forget. Especially if they keep harping on it every year.

Well, it is only the first year. And in a way this is an important thing to not forget-it reminds us not to lose our heads from paranoia in our current climate.
New new nebraska
01-02-2008, 02:40
I remeber that last year. I laughed. It was totally pathetic and exemplified peoples paranoia.

ZOMG LiteBrites duck and cover!!!!!
Thumbless Pete Crabbe
01-02-2008, 02:46
I remeber that last year. I laughed. It was totally pathetic and exemplified peoples paranoia.

ZOMG LiteBrites duck and cover!!!!!

Well, they *were* flipping the bird, to be fair. :p
Dempublicents1
01-02-2008, 03:34
Never Forget!
Bann-ed
01-02-2008, 03:35
That was a whole year ago already?
I'm getting old...
Straughn
01-02-2008, 07:21
Some guy carved one of them into the dirt on the back of the UPS delivery van that came to my work today. Middle "digit" & all. I thought it was a little strange, but it makes sense now.
:D
Cannot think of a name
01-02-2008, 08:10
Some guy carved one of them into the dirt on the back of the UPS delivery van that came to my work today. Middle "digit" & all. I thought it was a little strange, but it makes sense now.
:D

Quality
Blouman Empire
01-02-2008, 11:32
I remeber that last year. I laughed. It was totally pathetic and exemplified peoples paranoia.

ZOMG LiteBrites duck and cover!!!!!

Did it really exemplify people paranoia I suppose they did but they were supposedly up there for a couple of weeks before someone reported them, that was the funny thing about it
Sarkhaan
01-02-2008, 12:03
...are you serious? It was just on the news again. Slow news week around here, I guess...
Ifreann
01-02-2008, 12:07
I'm not sure I ever knew about this, so I don't tihnk I could have forgotten it.