[lbo-talk] world improved when you want to lick a computer

ravi ravi at platosbeard.org
Tue Dec 12 07:55:27 PST 2006


I was amused by the sexual language and analogies used in the piece. Apple products (laptops, iMac, iPod, etc) are sleek, stylish, but hardly something that invokes the idea of sex -- minimalist, clinical/antiseptic, unadorned, boxy, colourless, etc. Cool, or rather ice cold, not so much hot! ;-) Perhaps one of the SGI boxes back in their heyday... the sexual analogy is probably apt in that hardware is at best analogised to the male ;-) ... necessary (in some combinations) to the act, but not worth much attention.

--ravi



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