Despair Inc.™: Battle Bureaucracy with Fake “Crises” and CaffeineUnbelievable!Is this a joke!? Is this guy serious!? I feel like I just watched a spoof on uTube! The things that he says in this thing is outrageous. Yeah, let's just pump our slave workers with caffeine, force them to burn themselves...
Byline: s.d. Our columnist's current media obsession I almost threw out the latest Despair, Inc. catalog, because at first glance it looked like that of any other peddler of motivational products. Then I noticed the tagline: "Finally,...
Mock motivational products company Despair Inc. (Austin, TX) has installed an HP Indigo press 5000 that enables customers to produce their own calendars and other items. The company is enabling customers to pick from 80 of their "Demotivators" designs to create printed-to-order calendars, and a new...
Sick of those motivational posters that grace TQM work places? Us too. That's why we found Despair.com so refreshing. It sells paraphernalia that looks like ordinary, Go-get'um motivational fare until you read the message. Some of the more memorable phrases: Ambition--A journey of a thousand miles...
• "Ooh I wish I'd written about this in my incentivesarticle," emails writer Simon Young who has just rediscovered thiswondrous site after a short leave of absence. The creators of www.despair.com aim to increase success bylowering expectations. This is a great place to go for twisted logicand demotivational thinking. "Love...
Valentine's candy 'for rest of us' Really, those candy conversation hearts are a little too sweet. Cloying, even, with those messages "Call me" and "2 cute." For a Valentine's Day reality check, the cheery folks at www.despair.com offer Bitter-Sweets, a heart-shaped conversation candy "for...
"Flirting takes place in the corporate world every day and isn't necessarily sexual," says Susan Rabin, president of Dynamic Communications and founder of the Business School of Flirting. Rabin made her point recently by flirting with David Letterman on his show while lying on a bed. ...
The dramatic expansion of intellectual property rights represents a new stage in commodification that threatens to make virtually everything bad about capitalism even worse. Stronger intellectual property rights will reinforce class differences, undermine science and technology, speed up the corporatization of the university, inundate society in legal...
www.despair.com "It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others" is the catchy byline to a print entitled Mistakes right, which is just one of Despair Inc's entertaining, demotivational prints. There are loads of other products on...
Does your office have those big, glossy motivational posters all over the place? Do they irritate the living daylights out of you? Do they incite your inner cynic to dark mutterings and crankiness? Well, if the answer is yes, you need to visit Despair.com, home of Demotivators....
At first blush, Mike Weinbach and Justin Sewell seem to have a lot in common. Mike is 27 and Justin is 29. Both run successful dot-coms, in Boston and Austin, respectively. Both are in the business of motivation and inspiration. But dig deeper, and oh, what a difference...
IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE A MORE IRONIC Internet success story than Despair Inc. and its web site, www.despair.com. The antithesis of today's trendy, moneylosing dot.com companies, the Dallas-based publisher is thriving in the very environment it so often ridicules-the Internet economy. In Despair's sardonic universe, the joke is on corporate...
Several people around the country have me on their e-mail lists of people to whom they forward jokes and interesting things they have found on the Internet. One of the best I have seen lately is Despair.com. These people have come up with a...
www.cruel.com Another spoof site, this time offering a variation on "cool site of the day". It doesn't take a genius to figure out what the gag is; suffice to say that it provides links to the most miserable sites on the Web. Despair.com, anyone? Those so...
Love joins hate; aggression, fear; expansiveness, withdrawal, and so on, in blends designed not to promote the happiness of the individual, but to favor the maximum transmission of the controlling genes. (Wilson, 1975) EMOTIONS can be useful only if they influence the future, so it...
Articles 1999-06-22
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