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Great Transnational Nude Cruft

This cruft algorithm selects the name of a large corporation from a listing on Transnationale.org, and passes that name as a search term into Altavista Image Search. The search results of corporate imagery are then composited with a national flag downloaded from WikiMedia, as well as a recent image of a nude female from KindGirls.com to generate this cruft image.

…the point of public relations slogans like “Support Our Troops” is that they don’t mean anything [...] that’s the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody is gonna be against and I suppose everybody will be for, because nobody knows what it means, because it doesn’t mean anything. But its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something, do you support our policy? And that’s the one you’re not allowed to talk about.

Noam Chomsky. Interviewed by unidentified interviewer. WBAI. January 1992
http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/199201–.htm

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