Just heard Laurie Anderson’s “O Superman” used in a commercial for a mobile phone. I don’t know how to feel about this.
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My favorite bit of demographic data from this says that the anti-iPad crowd tends to be “self-directed young people who look down on conformity and are interested in videogames, computers, electronics, science and the internet.” Look down on conformity? Yeah, ‘cos NO ONE uses videogames, computers, electronics or this obscure “internet” thing.
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