Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Fat Pipe -- The Bumper Sticker
I met Kyle Johnson, the founder and prime (sole?) mover of Bumperactive, at SXSW Interactive a few weeks ago. I told him I wanted to make a bumper sticker out of Tim Bray's "Fat Pipe, Always On, Get out of the way!" motto. (For the record, Tim actually said, "Fast pipe . . .")Anyhow, Kyle and I corresponded briefly, and (magic!) a couple hundred stickers came in the mail (and we gave them away at F2C: Freedom to Connect). You can buy one (or more) of your own here. Bumperactive has a pretty cool idea, a bit similar to FON's business model; it will give you a share of the profits on each sticker, or it will donate that share to an organization of your choice. I chose to give the proceeds from the Fat Pipe sticker to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Kyle did another sticker at my instigation, too. It says, Torture is wrong. I'm upset we can't take this for granted. Proceeds from this one go to Amnesty International.
Comments:
Dave:
Way cool!
Personally I carry no stickers (other than obscure one in back window as supporter of local conservancy (aka land trust) but love the idea.
Will share with a few friends of "a certian age" and mind-bent (operative term being 'bent')
Couple of "long necks" and the puns fly fast and furious.
Maybe we can remember some and put them to good use.
Keep up the good Work(s)
Ciao
Chip
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Way cool!
Personally I carry no stickers (other than obscure one in back window as supporter of local conservancy (aka land trust) but love the idea.
Will share with a few friends of "a certian age" and mind-bent (operative term being 'bent')
Couple of "long necks" and the puns fly fast and furious.
Maybe we can remember some and put them to good use.
Keep up the good Work(s)
Ciao
Chip
