GGG has been running for 2 month. we have published 50 GGG-strips.
thats 23 3-word-strips, 23 4-word-strips, and a few odd ones. monkeypunk [3] and Phlow [2], silverfang and TOmaxwell have suggested or contributed GGG-strips, the others were done by yours truely…
all of the puzzles have been solved - by a total of 14 people.
a few people have played for awhile and then dissappeared, others have stuck around quite some time…
here is how it breaks down:

phlow: 13
cory: 9
rrothechild VII: 5
worthy_m & monkeypunk: 4 each
Josella: 3
Jack, wurzeltod, RRT & habi 2 each
another road side attraction, Padd, Steve & Scott Tarpley: 1 each

now, if google would finally come around and see the beauty of this game and start to sponsor it, we would now proceed to hand to the top 3 players their hard-earned google shares… he he
[anyone has good connections to google and could line this up?]

here’s my favorite answer to a strip so far: this was an answer to strip: GGG031: 3 words 15. to this Anonymous answered: “A Cat”
awwwwww, thats sooo cute, no?
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[someone called joao felino sent this to the great miss monkey punka after her frenZINE mailing yesterday]

so now i know why my paypal has been limited. because of my jacko nosejob project! [please only click this if yer 18+]
paypal is now asking me to remove [!] these images from my website [!] or else i will lose my account with them…
i am still speechless.
i told them, that i would gladly remove the paypal button, but never ever these images, which i consider to be artistic. so lets see what happens next…

the emails: [more]

Please join us in a crazy, yet profound, journey into a radical new future.

Imagine this… you wake up tomorrow morning and find out that the Dow Jones has just plunged 2,000 points. Trading has been halted. Over the next few weeks:

* Major stock markets around the world crash
* Banks close
* Supermarket shelves are half-empty
* Power is intermittent, gasoline hard to find, email sporadic

Violent gangs and bandits roam the streets. People move to the country - if they can. Governments try to maintain order, yet it appears that the old globalized order is gone, if not forever, then for a long, long time.

Six months later, you hear that Adbusters is working on a post-crash issue. We are sending out word that we can see a positive trend in what happened: innovative survival strategies are emerging, along with thriving local economic systems; borders are being redrawn on bioregional lines. We have a chance to create the new world that we’ve always dreamed about.

Can you take a mental trip into this strange future? Can you imagine what life would be like? Where did you end up? How did you survive? What are you doing now? Send us a lament, a vision, a poem, something mystical. What are the best post-crash jokes going around? What have you seen or heard in your neighborhood?

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No more than 250 words please: be creative and be authentic. The next issue will be a compilation of the best stories sent in, and each published contribution will receive three brand new Adbusters 2005 calendars.

email to kalle[at]adbusters[dot]org

[the latest issue of frenZINE wonders if street art is limited to stickers, graffitti and stencils or if art can just naturally occur in the streets]

paypal has blocked my account without informing me why. they claim that i made a payment via my paypal account that was in violation of their acceptable use policy. however they failed to inform me, what the payment in question was. this is me trying to find out what the deal is:

1. try:
Form Message: why is my account limited?
customer message: i was just trying to make a payment and found out that my account is now limited for some reason. could you please inform me why this is so?

thanx very much

jan zuppinger

1. response:
webform@paypal.ch Dear Jan Zuppinger,

Thank you for contacting PayPal.

If you would like to view the details regarding your limited account
access, click https://www.paypal.com/de/wf/f=ra_default or copy and paste the entire link into the address bar and click on the links provided to complete the outlined steps.

Please note:

Appeals cases and faxed documentation are worked in the order they are received

If your account access is limited, please see the section entitled 'How can I restore my account access?' for information on how to restore your account access

PayPal (Europe) Limited is authorized and regulated by the Financial Services Authority in the United Kingdom as an electronic money institution.

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although practically every MP now has an official website, the sad truth is that virtually none has attracted many people. you could fit the audience of most MP’s websites into a church hall and still have room to play football. online campaigning in Britain has been tagged as “the dog that didn’t bark”, as voters have stayed away from the hundreds of MPs’ websites launched over the course of the past two parliaments. it is easy to see why. Most MPs websites are among the most boring on the internet.

blogs could make mp’s websites somewhat more interesting says sean dodson @ the guardian

i have not mentioned this project here for awhile:

can you guess what it says?

more like so? GGG[GoogleGuessingGame]

the postman usually only brings crap. bills, commercials and other spam on paper.
not so yesterday… i received something in the mail from the brummie dubby different drummer label… its always fab to get their music, but dollboy is especially cool.
“where did this one come from? floating down from one of last summer’s brilliant blue skies? sliding in from a parallel dimension?” they ask on the liner notes. good point… this is so … errr… different, fresh, new; i am sure i have never heard sumink like it… ambient played with actual instruments? pedal steel guitars, harmonica, trumpets, piano…
in some ways its so not a summer release, yet it totally is… [especially in this sad ass of a summer] bombahstic!

dollboy - plans for a modern city DIFCD 28
teasers: cymbaline & celesta & splash