Some time ago, I purchased a piece of clothing in support of my favorite web browser. I’ve found that, in an age where everyone and their mother has a PDA or phone, wearing something like this is still a broad announcement of my geekhood to the surrounding environment.

At the same time, it’s a sort of secret code, like tracing a fish in the sand. It’s amazing how wearing it to social functions causes the Wired the reveal themselves to me. Of course, this effect comes in different forms. I spoke with a computer science girl recently who picked up a Google shirt at a trade show and said that it’s the biggest guy-magnet she’s ever discovered. (Although, as she said of females in computer science: “For them, the odds are good, but the goods are odd.”)

On an unrelated note, it came to my attention that a classic Penny Arcade addressed my same DSL frustrations with a little humour and without slandering any particular company.

But then, they slander companies and individuals all the time.

Mike

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