political and emotional expression in the virtual and real worlds
Courtesy : Lanya Shapiro on echoditto
September 17, 2004 - 12:45pm
Always one to use my person as a billboard, I rarely go without a political T-shirt. My latest favorite is my November 2 T-shirt, of which I own three.
I love watching the looks on people's faces as they rack their brains. Sometimes they ask me if I'm a scorpio. Typically though, they ask what happened on Nov 2, and I tell them that's the day we're going to take our country back. It's a great conversation starter -- much more so than a partisan shirt, I've found.
I'll soon be in very good company because apparently, Yahoo! made a NOVEMBER 2 t-shirt for their avatars to wear. (An avatar is an image that you can use to represent your online self in blog comments, IM formats, etc.)
Once just flat images, avatars are now becoming more customizable and even dynamic. I just learned a little more about the expressive capacity of avatars here.
Of course, you can get a T-shirt for your real-world self, or a set of iron-on transfers, at www.november2.org or click here.
I highly recommend it. You know what they say about scorpios, right?
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