>>>July 4 , 2002

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Pet snack: You’ll have to decide for yourself whether the site of the Kim Daewoo Dog Meat Co. is a real business, wry social commentary, animal rights propaganda or xenophobic black humour. Use your credit card to order fresh dog meat, apparently a Korean specialty, shipped straight from the butcher’s in Toronto. Available breeds range from a meaty Bulldog to the dieter’s choice of a Whippet. They’ll even buy your dog, if it meets their criteria for good eatin’. Gargle after visiting http://www.dogmeat.org/.

Consumption: From another avenue of consumer culture comes Brilliant Industries, the company that invents the products you didn’t know you needed. A parody of the Ron Popeil-obnoxious-limey-with-a-Cosby-sweater-why-didn’t-I-think-of-that school of advertising, this site promotes products like La-La Musical Fingers to ignore your problems and free software downloads to make money and intimidate people. Operators are standing by at http://www.brilliantindustries.com/.:

-Michael Citrome

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