"People who don't work with their hands are parasites" and other truisms by Jenny Holzer • Hacker News Board

Re: "People who don't work with their hands are parasites" and other truisms by Jenny Holzer

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Post by DougBTX » Sat, Oct 18, 2008, 12:31 PM UTC

mynameishere wrote: post #6

Can one of the eight people who unmodded this explain themselves? EDIT: No, no. Quit downmodding me and explain why you upmodded that website. I'm just curious. It seems really dumb and really offtopic, both.

You're probably being downmodded because you wrote "unmodded" instead of "upmodded", which sounds like it means "downmodded" - reversing the meaning of your question.

Anyway, this article probably looks good to people who are looking for Truth, but don't want to spend a lot of time thinking bout it, hence bite-size truthiness. It does intrigue me that they are alphabetised...

Re: "People who don't work with their hands are parasites" and other truisms by Jenny Holzer

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Post by shader » Sat, Oct 18, 2008, 8:23 PM UTC

If you need a quick fix for the terrible style, paste this in your address bar, or run it via firebug:

javascript: function f(){s=document.body.style;s.backgroundColor="white";s.color="black";s.fontSize="10pt";s.fontFamily="arial";}f();

Re: "People who don't work with their hands are parasites" and other truisms by Jenny Holzer

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Post by SwellJoe » Sat, Oct 18, 2008, 8:36 PM UTC

shader wrote: post #12

If you need a quick fix for the terrible style, paste this in your address bar, or run it via firebug: javascript: function f(){s=document.body.style;s.backgroundColor="white";s.color="black";s.fontSize="10pt";s.fontFamily="arial";}f();

Even better: Skip the site entirely.

I want those 38 seconds back.

Re: "People who don't work with their hands are parasites" and other truisms by Jenny Holzer

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Post by Prrometheus » Sun, Oct 19, 2008, 2:58 AM UTC

mynameishere wrote: post #6

Can one of the eight people who unmodded this explain themselves? EDIT: No, no. Quit downmodding me and explain why you upmodded that website. I'm just curious. It seems really dumb and really offtopic, both.

I don't get it either.