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Microsoft copy: Nietzschean emptiness with a Freudian slip
September 29, 2009
By now you’ve probably seen the monumentally embarrassing Windows 7 party video from Microsoft. Hopefully, you’ve also caught the censored version that imbues an entirely different meaning to ‘make sure you have the right devices to hand’.
And you’ve probably worked out, shortly after asking the question, ‘how could a global corporation with billions of dollars and swathes [...]
Gabriel Smy is a writer working on the web. His passion is making things clear. He is a Content Strategist for a small but perfectly formed web company in Cambridge, UK. As well as SmyWord, he runs the poetry blog Verbatim and writes about his first novel at Tongues of Men. Of course, you should follow him on twitter here. Most popular
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