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Intermittens image submissions / Exploitables
« on: May 17, 2013, 01:25:53 AM »
A place for exploitable images.

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Intermittens image submissions / IRC Comics
« on: May 13, 2013, 10:04:53 AM »
These are made by a robot taking snatches of conversation and turning them to comic through ramdom imagesand backgrounds.

So legally, ???? But here's a selection anyway; http://placiddingo.com/?p=358

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Intermittens written submissions / A few Dingo Works
« on: May 13, 2013, 01:17:10 AM »
All credited 'Placid Dingo'


I Heart Intangibles

You used to get your sausages from the person who killed the pig. They lived down the road, and you knew them, and you knew their kids were in school and you’d have conversations with them when you were buying your sausages. You had an emotional connection.

Industrialisation meant that you could then get your sausages and everything else from a supermarket, maybe from a company miles away full of people you didn’t know. You didn’t have an emotional connection with any of them. Go to the person you know, or get your sausages from a paper bag. It’s hard to make friends with a paper bag.

So, they gave it a face.

Now you didn’t know the person whose face was on the bag, so they made sure you met them before you even saw the product, through advertising. Suddenly it wasn’t your local butcher or your local paper bag, it was the butcher or farmer Joe.

People can form emotional connections to intangible concepts. Sports teams, religions (some religions in some sense), political groups… all form a sense of unity and community through a focus on a third thing. People are being brought together through a shared relationship with a TV show or a religious figure or a sports team.

This isn’t a problem as long as you don’t let the map become the terrortory. While we treasure and adore the ideas we form emotional connections with, we need to remember they’re ideas. They’re concepts. They can’t love us back.

The people that become part of our community can. Our fellow Broncos supporters, our Game of Thrones fans, our Communist Comrades build a culture, language and a set of rituals that we can engage in together to bring us all together. We’re like a group sitting around a campfire, singing songs to the flames. When it comes time for a hug, you need to remember- it’s the person beside you who’ll appreciate it, not the fire.

So for us as Discordians, we’ve formed a relationship through a deity generally considered explicitly a symbolic or metaphorical entity. I think we might need to remind ourselves that we are a collection of wonderful, curious people who are brought together by Eris…

But she can’t love us back.

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All Else / Stuff you have trouble posting yourself
« on: May 09, 2013, 04:07:17 PM »
Certain punctuation marks are causing issues.  If you have big issues, right now the only fix is to email it to intermittens@gmail.com and it will post via EmailSpag.

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Intermittens image submissions / Intermittens 11 cover art
« on: May 09, 2013, 02:19:56 PM »
Cover art provided by TripleZero

Image derived from http://www.flickr.com/photos/thart2009/5291352603/ - requires attribution to Thart2009

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Intermittens written submissions / Editors thread for IM11
« on: May 09, 2013, 11:13:57 AM »
Put up your hand ITT if you'd like to edit edition 11 of Intermittens.

(Psst, this is all open source, so if you want to take on an edition anyway without me nobody is stopping you - this is just if you want to be part of the one I'm producing).

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Intermittens written submissions / READ BEFORE POSTING
« on: May 09, 2013, 10:56:25 AM »
Intermittens is an open source Discordian Magazine. You can see what it looks like here. http://discordia.wikia.com/wiki/Intermittens

By posting your work in here (being work that you own the rights to) you are giving

ANYONE
the right to use your work IN THE CONTEXT OF AN INTERMITTENS MAGAZINE
in MULTIPLE FORMATS (including digital and physical format)
And to REPRODUCE your work in the context of the completed product.

You still retain the right to choose
IF someone has the right to make copies of your work commercially
IF someone has the right to reproduce your work outside of a context of an Intermittens Magazine (including use in the context of other works produced under the IM banner)
You may waive these right by announcing your work under a less restrictive license (Creative Commons/Public Domain/Kopyleft etc).

You MAY NOT submit work under more restrictive conditions, ie, submit work contingent on approving the final product etc.



You may link to or submit work that you DO NOT have the rights to, if you have written evidence that the work is under a
-creative commons (such as XKCD, Hyperbole and a Half)
-kopyleft (The Principia Discordia)
- or public domain license (Expired copyright texts, works of Charles Dickens, Jane Austen).

Be aware that Public Domain law varies internationally.

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