Introducing the The Inequality Asshole Index, spring 2011 edition

Thousands were left out

Today at Camplands we introduce our quarterly Inequality Asshole Index, a highly sophisticated graphic methodology that illustrates those at the forefront of generating unequal societies, relationships and/or dynamics. It is so complex we won’t attempt to explain it. We know grave omissions have been made; just now a war for oil is once again under way, with dozens of assholes lining up to shine. Thus, these coming weeks will determine our next summer index, while this one reflects on the past months.

We hope you enjoy and share this new scientific/statistical standard, soon to be compared to the Economist’s Big Mac Index. Or not. In any case, just so you understand how hard making this list is, neither Sarkozy, Glenn Beck or LeBron James made it. We’ll try to make it up to those guys in some other way.

Regards,

PF & ED

“It’s MI6”: Thom Yorke reveals the truth on The King Of Limbs

Thom Yorke has declared yesterday that the title of Radiohead’s last album, launched a few days ago, actually makes reference to the British Secret Service MI6, frequently blaming them for excessive interference in many developing countries’ politics.  “Some years ago someone said that Hail To The Thief was a rant against George W. Bush: today I want to state that was definitely untrue, that was just a poetic daydream image of a very inspired album. You see, there is this tacit agreement between British artists to move into politics only when we have no idea of what to write about. That’s why Paul McCartney & Wings have been the most political British band of all time“ says the artist that remarks how the lyrics “We will sink and be quiet as mice / While the cat is away and do what we want / Do what we want” from Lotus Flower certainly speak of revolution, whereas “There’s an empty space inside my heart” is just a crappy chorus necessary to sell some million copies.

Joe Biden warns Gaddafi: Libya’s future will be shaped in MountainView

Joe Biden: "How couldn't I smile with this amazing background?"

A few hours ago, GoogleTalk allowed us to interview Joseph Robinette “Joe” Biden, Jr., vice-president of the United States of America, right after the umpteenth meeting on Middle East. The hot topic was surely the Libyan crisis and Biden, with his whitest smile, didn’t hesitate to clarify all our doubts.

CL: Vice-president, this blog is confused… We read reports of Libyan air forces bombing civilians. How did a few thousands rebels survive such an attack? It sounds weird…

JB: Our sources speak actually of nearly one million rebels… In North Africa censuses are pretty weak, but luckily we have GoogleEarth now and Mountain View is improving a software for counting people instantaneously, GoogleRiot.

CL: Do you mean U.S. Army is using Google software at the moment?

JB: I do. After Bush’s administration the Defense wanted to give a clear sign of freshness to the young people, sharing knowledge through open source and freeware softwares. It’s amazing everyone could feel like a general from his house!

CL: It is indeed.. but who, which general suggested the no-fly zone?

JB: Oh, you mean what suggested that. It was GoogleUN. The software calculated that will serve just to stop the genocide, just a little warning. Of course there won’t be any accident, the software guaranteed that.

CL: Genocide?

JB: Yep, thanks to GoogleJargon we named it properly. You see, we developed a plugin for GoogleUN called GoogleArena which interacts with the dictionary present in GoogleJargon and choose the word we need to make these points clear. The data we had from Kosovo were fundamental, and easy to get thanks to GoogleClinton. And the last update of the plugin GoogleEmpire was perfect to adapt some parameters to the whole Global South.

CL: [we have opened GoogleEarth in the meantime] It’s impressive how the information are updated in real time. And it’s already indicated the Cyrenaica.

JB: Oh, that’s GoogleBoundaries, but it’s experimental. Let me see… yes… also these ads by BP, it’s GoogleOil, experimental as well. Like GoogleSaintHelena that suggested us Gheddafi’s exile: we are still working on that.

CL: Sounds great. What’s the next step?

JB: I have no idea, you have to ask MountainView. They are developing GoogleFreedom and implementing GoogleNobelPrize, so in the worst case we will be always right! They are quite busy at the moment, try with GoogleTalk.

CL: We’ll try hard. Thanks vice-president.

JB: Always a pleasure with CampLands. Bye Pablo, bye Duque.