Cat Dicks? Black Death? Welcome to Tobacco!

Happy Saturday, Morphizm pals! It's spring cleaning time, which means airing out the dirty as well as the clean laundry. I've been rummaging through Big Tobacco's drawers, and you wouldn't believe the strange shit I found. I posted the results to AlterNet:

The Sick and Crazy Science Tobacco Companies Pursue to Get You Hooked
Those who complain about how the internet or advances in technology haven't done enough to make us smarter or better may not truly remember what life was like before either. For one, digging up any type of public or private information took loads more work, especially when offending parties, from governments to free-marketers, were allowed to hide behind arbitrary legalese and the lawyers who enforce it. Before the internet, offenders worked in the shadows while their consumers and citizens were overexposed in the light.

But with organizations like the non-profit Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) and their various exercises in citizen journalism, those unhappy days have thankfully passed. Check out one of their more interesting wiki projects called Maximum Weirdness, which rifles through declassified files from University of California, San Francisco's Legacy Tobacco Documents Library and posts both the boring and bizarre results on a wikipedia dedicated strictly to Big Tobacco's metaverse. It might sound like wonk work on paper, but the right mixture of keyword searches can produce some eye-opening, lung-crushing laughs. Or is that cries? You decide... MORE @ ALTERNET