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Principia Discordia => Propaganda Depository => GASM Command => Topic started by: Cramulus on January 16, 2008, 07:30:10 PM

Title: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: Cramulus on January 16, 2008, 07:30:10 PM
I've started a centralized archive of writings related to this big project we've been talking about recently.

http://www.poee.co.uk/bip/index.php?title=OMGASM

This is important because when we recruit people, we need a quick way to tell them about it without forcing them to dig through our forums and read lengthy threads.

There's a ton of information we discussed that we need to distill into independant bites of information. This will be something we can direct people towards when they want to get on-board.

EVERYONE who has posted or thought about this project is encouraged (uhhhh REQIURED! ~lol~) to help out in building the wiki supporting it. See here:

TO-DO LIST

- We need to figure out what the OMGASM front page should contain. I think it should host all the propaganda we might use to snooker people into our clutches. Images, essays, rants, the sort of things that get people fired up. Stuff we encourage people to edit and repost on other Discordian forums. HOW CAN YOU HELP? Go through the threads about this project and paste relevant posts or ideas in this thread. Someone who wants to help will upload those ideas to the wiki. If you have free time, be that guy. Don't worry if it looks pretty, we'll clean that up later. If you're the kind of person who's good at layout and design, do that.

-I think the front page should have a history which explains the origins of this idea. There was an FSM thread which started the ball rolling and challenged us to one-up them...and now the ball is rolling. HOW CAN YOU HELP? Write the history of the project. Or at least make some notes on the History page for people to edit into an article later...

-Right now we need more images and stuff like that - Vex has started us rolling, could someone please upload his images to the wiki? Barumunk, you're a graphic designer right? Other image people should get on board too! HOW CAN YOU HELP? If you don't have graphic design skillz, find relevant graphics and upload them to the wiki!

-There are no current Golden Apple Seed Missions. This is a big flaw in our project - before we start broad recruiting pushes, we need to have some things in place for people to participate in. HOW CAN YOU HELP? Write up a mission for other Discordians. More importantly, get a Digg and del.ico.us account and tag existing missions (when they appear).



I've used the word OMGASM for lack of a better name. I think Vex proposed The Game at some point, but as a correlary between this project and The MachineTM.
Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: Triple Zero on January 17, 2008, 12:27:22 AM
1. i collected relevant links on this page:

http://del.icio.us/tag/gasm

4. there are already a few semi-missions, they're on the above page. just tag "gasm" on a link, a blog post, forum post, whatever.

also i don't really like the word "sects" on the wikipage, can't it be "cabals"?
Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: Cramulus on January 17, 2008, 02:43:38 AM
oh jeez you're right. Cabal is a MUCH better word than sect.

I typed all that shit at work while taking a break from being INCREDIBLY bogged with deadlines and malfunctioning printers and other publishing bullshit. So it's in no way in a final-form.

I highly recommend you make some edits yerself, as there's a lot to do and I don't have the time to make the edits that need to be made. Does that work?
Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: Cainad (dec.) on January 17, 2008, 05:11:46 AM
I can has BIP wiki account? :aww:
"Create account" is suffering from a bad case of nonexistence.
Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: barumunk on January 17, 2008, 06:22:24 AM
hey great i love rolling balls!   :D

Well I had an idea for BIP, and it was sort of covered in the golden sphere of possibility, but I was wondering (and would like to) rewrite a version of BIP but as a starting point invert all the "negative" words with positive version.... not to replace BIP OBVIOUSLY but as a (sub)version <-----------hahaha i like that word!!!!

... anyway, what you guys think (the idea of it that is)
Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: AFK on January 17, 2008, 01:37:34 PM
Quote from: Cainad on January 17, 2008, 05:11:46 AM
I can has BIP wiki account? :aww:
"Create account" is suffering from a bad case of nonexistence.

You have to ask one of the Sysops.  Those being Synaptyx, LMNO, Prof Cram, and myself.  So, I shall set you up.  Expect a PM shortly. 
Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: Cain on January 17, 2008, 01:51:14 PM
Cross posting:

Quote from: Ratatosk on January 15, 2008, 02:58:05 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 15, 2008, 02:09:00 PM
This reminds me...assuming the power doesn't go down again (not exactly a given at the moment) I'll scout out 10 or so Discordian websites and drop off the addresses in the O:MF forum.

Good idea... we should figure out which we already have active members in and which we need to infiltra... err join. Also, should we have an area in specific to direct people to? Maybe a subforum with sticky essays that we want these people to read, in order to understand what we're planning on doing? I think that Welcome blurb I wrote a while back would be good to modify slightly and post, along with your infowar essays, maybe some of the applicable essays from BiP and I thought I might do a couple essays 'expounding' on some Discordian Lore as it applies to us... maybe ;-)

Also I have a recruitment one I'm working on (how-to).

I'm hoping our eventual aim would be to make a Discordian version of the Encyclopedia of the Afghan Jihad (an 8000 page reference guide to terrorism, written by Al-Qai'da's top operatives and circulated among all recruits via CDs) so I totally agree with this idea.  Cram's idea to use the Wiki, as mentioned in the TFY,S forum, to create a stable base of knowledge which can get everyone 'up to speed' quickly is an excellent idea.

That was part of the larger project I didn't want to mention before, because it would be a lot of work.
Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: Cramulus on January 17, 2008, 01:58:13 PM
Quote from: barumunk on January 17, 2008, 06:22:24 AM
hey great i love rolling balls!   :D

Well I had an idea for BIP, and it was sort of covered in the golden sphere of possibility, but I was wondering (and would like to) rewrite a version of BIP but as a starting point invert all the "negative" words with positive version.... not to replace BIP OBVIOUSLY but as a (sub)version <-----------hahaha i like that word!!!!

... anyway, what you guys think (the idea of it that is)

lol - yeah be our guests and edit / release as much as you want! Pretty much all of the BIP pamphlet is Kopyleft, meaning you can edit it as you see fit. Uhm, except for Roger's rants. I think that if you mince his words, he'll skewer you through the internet somehow.

But this topic was talking about the OMGASM project. Do you feel up to helping out with graphics and writings and spreading the Good Word and stuff?

Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on January 17, 2008, 01:37:34 PM
Quote from: Cainad on January 17, 2008, 05:11:46 AM
I can has BIP wiki account? :aww:
"Create account" is suffering from a bad case of nonexistence.

You have to ask one of the Sysops.  Those being Synaptyx, LMNO, Prof Cram, and myself.  So, I shall set you up.  Expect a PM shortly. 

I'm a sysop now??


I'm pretty sure I'm not. At least, I don't see any account creating tools.
Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: AFK on January 17, 2008, 02:06:07 PM
Yeah, I took the liberty to make you one.  Because you seemed to have the most gumption and drive to actually put stuff on the thing.  It seemed to make sense. 
Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: barumunk on January 17, 2008, 02:15:07 PM
Quote from: Professor Cramulus on January 17, 2008, 01:58:13 PM
But this topic was talking about the OMGASM project. Do you feel up to helping out with graphics and writings and spreading the Good Word and stuff?


Yup i most def do.  :D

and a frind of mine locally (hasnt posted hear really) is also a graphic designa nd keen to participate, which is cool. count us in.
Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: AFK on January 17, 2008, 02:40:55 PM
So I gather one method for networking is going to be through flyers, writings, etc.

Of course another method would be to find groups of established Discordians on the net.  The obvious places will be message boards, but as we know there don't seem to be very many.  But perhaps there are cabals that have websites, complete with contact information, but maybe aren't communicating through message boards.

What I'm getting at, is that at some point, and I maybe getting ahead of the game here, we will want to develop some sort of list or database of contacts for these groups of Discordians.  Probably the easiest and most straightforward way to do this is to identify "leaders" from these groups and get their e-mail addresses.  Then you can send out mass e-mails. 

Eventually, I think it would be really cool to develop some sort of newsletter or newspaper where different cabals and groups can submit what they are up to, rants, events., etc.  It was something I wanted to do with The Discordian Network before the site crashed. 

Anyway, just thinking out loud here. 
Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: Cain on January 17, 2008, 02:43:49 PM
Its a good idea, I think.  And once you have that list, try to get it to as many people on the list as possible too.  Create interconnections.
Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: Bebek Sincap Ratatosk on January 17, 2008, 02:55:38 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on January 17, 2008, 01:37:34 PM
Quote from: Cainad on January 17, 2008, 05:11:46 AM
I can has BIP wiki account? :aww:
"Create account" is suffering from a bad case of nonexistence.

You have to ask one of the Sysops.  Those being Synaptyx, LMNO, Prof Cram, and myself.  So, I shall set you up.  Expect a PM shortly. 

POKE. Me too... I thought I had an account, but it claims not to know anything about some user named ratatosk :(
Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: barumunk on January 17, 2008, 02:58:06 PM
yeah that sounds cool/great  i also thingk it's a good idea to catagorize them by geographic locations.. so people know if there are other people round to do non-interweb mindfucks!!  :evil:
Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: Triple Zero on January 17, 2008, 04:49:48 PM
Quote from: Professor Cramulus on January 17, 2008, 02:43:38 AM
oh jeez you're right. Cabal is a MUCH better word than sect.

I typed all that shit at work while taking a break from being INCREDIBLY bogged with deadlines and malfunctioning printers and other publishing bullshit. So it's in no way in a final-form.

I highly recommend you make some edits yerself, as there's a lot to do and I don't have the time to make the edits that need to be made. Does that work?

yup i edited it.

(i just didn't wanna edit it yesterday because--secretly (nobody could tell, right?)--i was posting while high+drunk, and i didn't really wanna edit a wiki in that state)
Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: Cramulus on January 17, 2008, 05:21:54 PM
Did a lot of editing this morning, including reorganizing and adding more stuff to the main OMGASM page.

Next to be updated is the How You Can Help page. Can you guys help?

http://www.poee.co.uk/bip/index.php?title=How_you_can_help


since right now, the best way to help is to check in at PD and add to the discussion, we should make a central list of the threads about this project.

Now that there are a bunch of them, I'm having trouble finding them. Also, I'm really busy at work ATM. Too busy to be hacking at this. ;-)

Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: Cain on January 17, 2008, 05:24:02 PM
Someone make me an account.

I can't promise anything before the weekend (I have exams tomorrow, and then I'm going to get roaringly drunk, have a fantastic meal, great sex and sleep, for those wondering) but I may be able to come up with something worthwhile on Saturday, once the painkillers kick in.
Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: AFK on January 17, 2008, 05:38:50 PM
You're in, check PMs. 
Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: Cain on January 17, 2008, 05:59:27 PM
Ta muchly.
Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: Cramulus on January 17, 2008, 11:39:48 PM
I've made TONS of edits and additions over at the wiki. Please stop in, have a look around, and comment.


BIG TO-DO

http://www.poee.co.uk/bip/index.php?title=Discordian_Websites_and_Communities

Please list other Discordian sites you're aware of!



Notes
(mostly to self)

We need to flesh out the GASMGASM, the project to spread the word about this project.

I want to have a GASM which is related to putting up posters, flyers, and meme bombs. The core page should contain links to all sorts of printable / distributable media. (like the Meme Bomb Collection, volume Aleph). Project name brainstorm: postergasm, memegasm, bombgasm, shrapnelgasm, seegasm, whoregasm, handgasm (as in handouts), word-of-mouthsgasm: WOMGASM.

The Web2.0 page needs a lot of cleanup. Maybe structured like this:
-What is Web2.0?
-Why is it the right tool for Discordians to use?
-What web2 apps are useful for us, and how to use them

tripzip we should talk about deez nuts.
Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: Cain on January 17, 2008, 11:46:23 PM
I saw 000 had used delicio.us to bookmark/tag Discordian sites.

I could cover StumbleUpon in the same manner, and if one of you was on Digg, that would be mega useful.
Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: Triple Zero on January 18, 2008, 12:30:52 AM
im just collecting relevant links, tagging them.

if anyone got a del.icio.us account, add me to your "network", name's "triplezero".
Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: Cain on January 18, 2008, 10:31:13 AM
OK.  I don't actually have an account, so I am of little use on that end.

Then again, tagging half a dozen sites as Discordian can hardly hurt...I'll look into it tomorrow.
Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: Triple Zero on January 18, 2008, 02:00:50 PM
i cleaned up the page about web2.0 on the wiki. mostly i added some capitalization and headings (i have the feeling people like capital initial letters if they have to read something :-P), fixed a few spelling errors and improved some (but not all) crappy wording.

what would also be useful, since the wiki itself is also about the BIP, is to create a wiki category for the GASM project. cause that makes sense. i'll try and find out how to do it :)

Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: Cramulus on January 18, 2008, 02:04:22 PM
I just got signed up on digg and del.icio.us

Digg is useful in different ways, as far as I can tell.

First, it's only set up so that you can digg news, images, or videos. Not cool websites. (such as the OMGASM wiki) I've been digging them anyway as "news".

Digg has "upcoming links", "popular links" and "dropped links". When you post something, it gets put in upcoming. If it gets a certain number of hits in a certain amount of time, it gets bumped from the upcoming list to the popular list. Otherwise it falls into the dropped links list.

It seems like Digg is good if we want to swarm on an idea. If we digg something, we should follow-up by getting everyone we know with a digg acount to digg it.



At this point I'm starting to think we should have an OMGASM subforum. We only have like five or six threads about this project, but we should centralize discussion. It'll also make it easier for recruits to focus / find the relevant stuff.




Vexati0n - could I trouble you to redesign this image http://www.poee.co.uk/bip/index.php?title=Image:Ag-declaration1.jpg to point at the OMGASM section of the BIP wiki?


Barumunk - I made some comments for you on the talk page of one of the articles you posted (by LHX). If you're looking to do some clean-up / fleshing out of the wiki, one of the things we could really use is someone to go through the current BIP pamphlet (see my sig) and update the wiki pages, as some are out of date. the TOC and contents of the wiki is based on the original BIP pamphlet, and there have been numerous edits since then.
Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: barumunk on January 18, 2008, 02:13:40 PM
 :D Prof.cram: noted. :D


kul, i dont mind getting onto that
Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: Triple Zero on January 18, 2008, 02:15:14 PM
http://www.poee.co.uk/bip/index.php?title=Category:GASM

creating a new category appears to be as easy as adding [[Category:GASM]] underneath every page which you think belongs to the category. which i have just done for every link on the OMGASM page.
Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: Triple Zero on January 18, 2008, 03:45:33 PM
i just got a digg account too (username: ayinsophaur, triplezero was taken..) and dugg the "ron paul lizard heat vision" story. also added you (cramulus) as a friend.

also:
http://del.icio.us/tag/digggasm
http://www.shorttext.com/7pdpf

and a funky logo thanks to roflbot:
(http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/6907/roflbot3umxpw8.jpg)
Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: Bebek Sincap Ratatosk on January 18, 2008, 04:26:44 PM
LOL, just got a del.icio.us account "Daath_Voidius" and digg "DaathVoidius".

Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: Cramulus on January 25, 2008, 03:54:35 PM
Yo, do you other wiki admins think it would be prudent to open up registration to the general public?

Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: Diseris on January 26, 2008, 05:03:43 PM
this space intentionally left blank.

Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: Triple Zero on January 26, 2008, 05:49:45 PM
Quote from: Professor Cramulus on January 25, 2008, 03:54:35 PM
Yo, do you other wiki admins think it would be prudent to open up registration to the general public?

i's up to the wiki admins of course, but i'd say the signup procedure has been rather quickly, and opening it up for the general public will also require moderation and checking for possible spammage/vandalism/etc.

Quote from: Diseris on January 26, 2008, 05:03:43 PMcan someone sign me up there?  got a few poster stops to make this morning...

i can't give you an account, but you can simply download the posters without having an account:
http://www.poee.co.uk/bip/index.php?title=POSTERGASM
Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: Diseris on January 26, 2008, 06:36:24 PM
(http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e244/inthecanpictures/rtg.jpg)

ready to go...

Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: AFK on January 26, 2008, 06:47:13 PM
I'll set you up.  Expect a PM shortly. 

And I tend to agree with 000.  As soon as I see a request I set the account up and during the week I'm pretty much available from 8:30 to 4:30 EST.  Requests on the weekend probably should go to Cram.  Also, if worse comes to worse one could always drop a request with Syn over at POEE as he's the one who started the whole thing. 

Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: Diseris on January 26, 2008, 10:24:19 PM
(http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e244/inthecanpictures/pstrgasm1.jpg)

lame, remember to learn to use the wife's camera phone before you start...

other notes: 

cut your avery labels down to pocket sized chunks, they're great to use for tape.

grrrrrrrrrr.....thought you could just snap and go w/ the camera phone, but it trashes the pict if you don't go out of your way to save it...  got more paper for next time though.
Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: Cramulus on November 30, 2008, 12:58:36 AM
BBBBBUUUUMMMMPPPPP


BUMPED to initiate discussion on some points Manta Obscura offered about the POSTERGASM website:

to suggest possible talking points
THE BOLDNESS has been added by yours truly


Quote from: Manta Obscura on October 22, 2008, 03:58:31 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on October 22, 2008, 03:28:50 PM
Hey, do you think the current POSTERGASM wiki page could be organized better? I'd be interested in hearing what you think.

I actually really like the setup of that Wiki page. The only things that I would change, if I had unlimited autocratic power, would be:

1) Make the "Mission" and "Objective" sections their own sub-headings, like the "Materials" Sub-heading. That way new users' eyes can be instantly drawn to the important sections they're looking for.

2) Transfer the "Why I put up posters" essay to a new sub-heading titled something like "PosterGASM in Action." Another good thing to put under this section would be to include links to people's flickr/photobucket pages, so that a new BIP visitor will see that people actually DO this stuff and don't just talk about it. The pics that are already on the page are a good start, but it would be neat to see a more fleshed-out archive link that went to some of the more notable posters, or links that go to individuals' pages.

3) A more long-term goal: a section which outlines the laws about where posters may be legally put up. I know a few Discordians-in-the-works who are a bit intimidated, thinking that they'll get carted off in a paddy wagon for putting a sign up on a telephone pole or something.

4) Even more long-term: a section which gives illegal places/ways to put stuff up, and how (hypothetically, of course :wink:) one would go about doing it without getting caught. For example, I have tried (and on a few occasions, nearly been caught) carving the message into a less-than public place (not civilian property, mind you; that would be an asshole thing to do) so that my hard work wouldn't be torn down in an hour by a zealous cleaning crew. This section could expand into a whole new Wiki page, called "NinjaGASM," or something.

And that's it, really. Minor criticisms, because the page is pretty solid as it is right now.

~Happiness
Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: Manta Obscura on December 01, 2008, 04:15:25 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on November 30, 2008, 12:58:36 AM
BBBBBUUUUMMMMPPPPP


BUMPED to initiate discussion on some points Manta Obscura offered about the POSTERGASM website:

to suggest possible talking points
THE BOLDNESS has been added by yours truly


Quote from: Manta Obscura on October 22, 2008, 03:58:31 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on October 22, 2008, 03:28:50 PM
Hey, do you think the current POSTERGASM wiki page could be organized better? I'd be interested in hearing what you think.

I actually really like the setup of that Wiki page. The only things that I would change, if I had unlimited autocratic power, would be:

1) Make the "Mission" and "Objective" sections their own sub-headings, like the "Materials" Sub-heading. That way new users' eyes can be instantly drawn to the important sections they're looking for.

2) Transfer the "Why I put up posters" essay to a new sub-heading titled something like "PosterGASM in Action." Another good thing to put under this section would be to include links to people's flickr/photobucket pages, so that a new BIP visitor will see that people actually DO this stuff and don't just talk about it. The pics that are already on the page are a good start, but it would be neat to see a more fleshed-out archive link that went to some of the more notable posters, or links that go to individuals' pages.

3) A more long-term goal: a section which outlines the laws about where posters may be legally put up. I know a few Discordians-in-the-works who are a bit intimidated, thinking that they'll get carted off in a paddy wagon for putting a sign up on a telephone pole or something.

4) Even more long-term: a section which gives illegal places/ways to put stuff up, and how (hypothetically, of course :wink:) one would go about doing it without getting caught. For example, I have tried (and on a few occasions, nearly been caught) carving the message into a less-than public place (not civilian property, mind you; that would be an asshole thing to do) so that my hard work wouldn't be torn down in an hour by a zealous cleaning crew. This section could expand into a whole new Wiki page, called "NinjaGASM," or something.

And that's it, really. Minor criticisms, because the page is pretty solid as it is right now.

~Happiness

I'm in the process of researching graffiti and free-expression laws to address points 3 and 4. Because of the different local and regional laws against various acts of "vandalism," it will take awhile to finish and bring together my research.

Until I get a complete set of rules, here's something to know thy enemy:
http://www.anti-graffiti.org/links.htm
http://www.graffitihurts.org/community_resources/prevention.cfm#anti_graffiti_laws

Note: I know that the posters are not technically "graffiti," but the laws which limit the distribution or placement of printed materials tend to refer to the censored signs as graffiti anyway.
Title: Re: OMGASM at BlackIronPrison.com
Post by: Telarus on April 14, 2011, 10:16:04 PM
Bump, because the thread is worth re-reading.