Weekend Update: Tonight's Puzzle
Wired has just sent me, in the mail, an empty silver cardboard tube suitable for mock-pirate exercises.
Can anybody shed any light on this?
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Wired has just sent me, in the mail, an empty silver cardboard tube suitable for mock-pirate exercises.
Can anybody shed any light on this?
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It's a metaphor for the new economy.
Posted by: Kieran | May 02, 2008 at 10:07 PM
Think of it as a shoehorn.... Useful in interactions with John Yoo's new government....
Posted by: jerry | May 02, 2008 at 10:38 PM
They sent me one of those as well, only mine contained an invite to a Wired event in NYC coming up soon. If my PR person hasn't thrown it out by monday I can mail the info to you, assuming I can figure out or guess your email address.
Posted by: Bram Cohen | May 02, 2008 at 10:47 PM
Thanks for the chuckle.
Posted by: Leila Abu-Saba | May 03, 2008 at 12:18 AM
Dude, if you don't know then (pffft..) you DON'T KNOW. But if you find out, tell me willya?
Posted by: Darryl Parvin | May 03, 2008 at 05:13 AM
Did you look in the mirror afterwards?
(ink ring around eye?)
Posted by: Neal | May 03, 2008 at 08:44 AM
I received one of those in my e mail, but some assembly was required.
Posted by: Matt | May 03, 2008 at 09:04 AM
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The Japanese Emperor Taisho was dethroned in 1925, for supposedly being mad. The main evidence for this claim was that he often looked at his Cabinet through a rolled-up cardboard tube. (With the exception of the excellent Baron Okuma, I'd have preferred to have seen even less of his cabinets.)
When I last saw his son, the Emperor Hirohito, at a Sumo match in about 1979, he stood in the Imperial box and looked at one or two of the fights through a cardboard tube. My thought was that he was telling his father's critics to go stick it.
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Posted by: David Lloyd-Jones | May 03, 2008 at 12:07 PM
It's the latest edition of their spinoff magazine - Wireless.
Alternatively, it is a souvenir section of one of the internet tubes.
Posted by: ottnott | May 03, 2008 at 01:07 PM
It's obviously only suitable for enriching uranium. Prepare to be invaded, jihadi.
Posted by: biff3000 | May 03, 2008 at 03:15 PM
It is a "Bush Kalidoscope", where the colored bits are optional like many of his business restrictions and enviornmental controls.
Posted by: Hedley Lamarr | May 03, 2008 at 03:18 PM
They are trying to get you started on building your own icbm.
Posted by: r | May 03, 2008 at 04:34 PM
Perhaps it's an anamorphic viewer. Got a reproduction of Holbein's "The Ambassadors" handy?
Compare
http://www.devorahsperber.com/
chenille_stem_works_htm/
holbein_rug_2_views_800w.html
Posted by: Diamond Jim | May 03, 2008 at 05:33 PM
It's a device that cuts out 99 and 44/100% of what there is to observe but still leaves the mouth free to say what should be done. The perfect gift for an economist.
Posted by: Ponzi Q. Globalization | May 04, 2008 at 07:08 PM
Ponzi Q. wins this thread.
Posted by: MikeBC | May 05, 2008 at 10:31 AM