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Culture Jamming at its best: Normally I don't condone culture jamming as anything more than a means for artists to blow off steam and have fun, so it's nice to see a project pulled off successfully that doesn't bother anyone, and gets an inordinate amount of attention in so doing. Banksy, a culture-jammer artist who specializes in spray-painting templates that distract viewers from the environment in which they appear, went to four of New York City's biggest museums and put up his own art on the walls. Taking advantage of lax security and not-so-busy times, he was successful, to the point that two of his paintings were up for more than a day or two, and he has garnered the front page of the New York Times, CNN, and media interviews galore while putting egg squarely on the face of the art establishment in NYC. Updates on the project are at the Wooster Collective (a fun site for culture jamming). news.google.com search for banksy.
In other culture-jamming news, sniggle has a story on a fella who's been putting prank labels on plants sold in supermarkets.
This MIT geek has come up with an alarm clock that moves after you hit the snooze button - so you have to hunt for it to shut it up.