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Annoyances: Viral Marketing

So this one has been proliferating for several months now with very little end in site.

It’s a collection of photos and limited videos from supposedly all over the world with first sightings made in the Big Basin area of California.

Most recent additions have come in from France and Italy and several other supposed locales.

In the middle of all this hype an anonymous-esque ex-employee of a government facility allegedly known as CARET posted a bunch of documents that he was adroit enough to somehow decamp from within a place he himself proclaimed to be severely secured.

It’s all very fascinating, but it’s obviously another stupid ass viral marketing campaign that has gotten out of hand.

When will companies learn that viral marketing is just silly and borderline nauseating?

My question is: What the hell is this campaign for?

At first I was positive that it was a buildup for the announcement of Half Life 3, but now it’s been said it’s for Halo 3 which I find incredibly hard to believe given this looks nothing like Halo.

So if it’s not for Half Life 3, then does anyone have any information on what game or movie or company it might be for?

Obviously a lot of hard work and effort has gone into this, so I don’t believe it to be some ufo wacko's attempt at a hoax (it’s far too polished for that), but I do believe it to be some fairly substantially financed company’s clever attempt at creating an “intriguing” viral “buzz”…

Anyone?

Oh here’s the link to the BS that we’re supposed to buy was spirited away by the ex-middle management employee from a government facility with multiple gun guarded check points:

http://isaaccaret.fortunecity.com/

Which is markedly still up on Fortune City no less, because our open and completely honest government would never have this taken down if what was being sold for truth actually was true.

Some pictures which, at least to me, seemed very Half Life like:

This one is a supposed drone photographed by “Ty B.” on June 5, 2007, near Saratoga in Big Basin Red Woods State Park, California...


Yet another absurdly crisp photo taken by “Chad” on May 6, 2007, in the Bakersfield, California region...



- shannon
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Paranoia: If you believe they put a man on the moon...

A couple of ex-NASA and Department of Defense consulting scientists wrote a book on surviving an impending invasion by Space Aliens...

Yup, apparently they are serious...according to the article.

Let me consult with the hyper paranoid conspiracy theorist in me and weigh the ramifications.

So...uhm...Alien Terrorists? What's that raise the national terror alert levels to?

If the enemy is some unknown entity that could at any time attack from anywhere without provocation, and with "weapons of mass destruction" that they won't let us, the United States of Fussbudgets, inspect will it finally get the neutral nations on our side?

Whoa, I could swear that cat walked by, and then the same cat walked by again.

So here's how it goes down:

The Aliens will wait until closer to the election to instill widespread panic with their threat of invasion.

We Americans will be left with only one viable option. Forgo the election all together and instate Bush as the "War of the Worlds War Time Presidential Minister of Kickin' Alien Ass"...Bush gets an indefinite Presidential stronghold. World collectively shivers.

Then we wait for an attack that never comes whilst duct taping our windows, doors and clinched orifices shut.

Or, it does come, they blast us to shit and gone, the Mayans return on 12/21/2012 and say "We fucking told you so!" and we all grimace (without the clown and happy meals) as we slip into the routine of harvesting cow innards for our new Alien taskmasters.

I say let the Aliens come, I'm sure all they want are competitive wages.

Of course it could all just be some silly ploy to sale books or snake oil...

Who knows, I got bored about halfway through the article.

Here's the link.

- shannon
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