| Toni Alatalo on 17 Feb 2001 13:41:29 -0000 |
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| [Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> a correspondance with nike |
geert lovink wrote: > Date sent: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 14:10:13 -0400 > From: Jason Dionne <[email protected]> > > Nike now lets you personalize your shoes by submitting a word or phrase > which > they will stitch onto your shoes, under the swoosh. So Jonah Peretti filled > out the form and sent them $50 to stitch "sweatshop" onto his shoes. this story was slashdotted yesterday and people there noticed an interesting twist: ---cut--- Quick Fix. (Score:5, Interesting) by dougman ([email protected]) on Friday February 16, @04:02PM EST (#66) (User #908 Info) http://www.theswindle.com I find it intriguing, that moments after this story was posted, the html "wizard" that allows consumers to build their own Nikes was suddenly changed ever so slightly, and I mean ever so slightly - suddenly the textbox to enter your "id" was limited in size to 8 charachters. Just one shy of the 9 chars in the word "sweatshop". And to prove this was deliberate I checked the cache of my second pc which coincidentally had visited just this site a few days ago. The text limit was 12 chars on what was otherwise identical HTML. Fascinating. Unfortunately, I can still think of plenty of regrettable things (to Nike) that fit in 8 chars or less (per shoe). I recommend we all place an order right this moment for a pair of shoes with "goatse" in the left shoe and ".cx" in the right one. ---cut--- The nasty part is that some people thought that the whole correspondance was fake when they notices the 8 char limit.. http://slashdot.org/articles/01/02/16/1746256.shtml is the thread ~Toni _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold