the swipe and gripe blues

buy blue's goal is to "provide information on who gave what to what political party this last [US] election cycle." if you consider yourself a bluey, you may want to stay away from companies such as K-Mart, KFC, Hilton Hotels, BP and Hallmark cards, to name just a few.



of course, it's not always easy to tell where a smallish company sits within an oligopolistic framework. enter the corporate fall out detector. "The device scans barcodes of goods, and makes a clicking noise based on the environmental or ethical record (selectable via the "sensitivity" switch) of the manufacturer. The more "click click" you hear, the worse the ethics of the company. The system works by correlating several online barcode databases with a pollution database and a corporate ethics database."



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