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Design your own poster!

April 22, 2009 By: fotdmike Category: Individual Freedoms, Police State, Privacy, Terrorism

A few days back (er… more like ten to be precise) I blogged about those billboard advertisecons that seem to have been appearing all over the place.

Well, seems I’m not the only one to have been a bit disturbed by them. In fact I added a couple of addendums to the original post, with links to other observant folk.

But now someone’s gone one better… “design your own” one better in fact! Heh heh.

Stumbled across this absolutely superb version on one of my Flickr contacts’ pages, and was given permission to repost it here. Just as well, cos I think its excellent…

advertisecon

And if you think the above version’s in slightly bad taste and can come up with a better slogan well, you can customise your own cos there’s an online tool for doing just that here.

What a simpy wiz idea!

-- fotdmike

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