I love the whole concept of crowdsourced art, whether it's this format--which I hadn't heard about before--or another form, such as writing or video. It reminds me of group writing sessions from my college creative writing classes, always fun and definitely interesting, where we'd all write a sentence or paragraph and then pass the story on to the next student.
As you say, it was no surprise to see Subway's foot-long aim challenged... Although it's somewhat surprising it took so long to happen. Walmart had to change its "lowest price" marketing because that's not always true; I would imagine Subway will have to make a change as well. Social media, of course, allows a small group of people to make worldwide noise and add others to their cause.
If, as I believe, Teo was an innocent victim of this cruel trick, then my heart goes out to him. Much has been made of the fact that he alluded to her publicly at least twice after he reportedly learned if her "death." Yet consider that he had spent so much time believing her, had spent so much invested in this "relationship," and I understand how he couldn't immediately turn off his emotions and blurt out the truth. Sometimes people are a bit too quick to judge. People who create these false social media IDs and troll for relationships are playing nasty, sadistic games of mind and emotion control. Very cruel.
The Teo case is very sad, to think that anyone finds that kind of a joke funny to create artificial grief and hip it onto an already grieving person. And how this played out that they went so many months in a "relationship" of that kind. I'm glad he took it with great stride though reading from that last paragraph.
I was looking through the gallery, expecting something about Manti Te'o because I think the whole situation and the absurdity of it all was, well, incredibly stupid. And if Te'o really fell for it, then I'm sympathetic but skeptical as well. Did he really have a relationship with someone he never met, who got into a car accident (and almost died) and then went on to pass away due to cancer?
As for the Subway story... Well, based on the sandwiches I get, that wasn't much of a surprise. Although it'll be interesting to see if anything changes after they reinforce their policies.
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M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
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