Providing easy-irony shirts since it looked like a good idea at the time.
Okay, I’ve looked over the site in the light of the new coalition government and I’ve decided that I still like it. I’d still wear the shirts.
But I still don’t think there’s enough here to warrant any sort of word-spreading, which means that you, the reader, are most likely a figment of my imagination.
Luckily I have an active imagination.
A: Unless it says otherwise, Creative Commons Attribution.
A: You can do what you like with my “art”, provided you give me credit for my work and link to this site.
On the other hand, if there is a note next to a post that asks you not to copy it, then I’d ask you to respect that, please.
A: Sure. Knock yourself out; be my guest. Just remember to link back here.
I think Shakespeare said that.
…okay, maybe not. Just click on the picture to go to the shop, okay?
That’s interesting: there appears to be a cafepress.co.uk.
I didn’t know that was going to happen. How convenient.
Okay, two shirts are out and the site is looking vaguely presentable, at least in Firefox. I feel as if I can start to breathe a bit slower.
One more design, and a bit more fiddling with the site, I think; and then I’ll have a think about what to do next.
The second design. Click on the photo to go to the shop.
Here in the UK, not handing your encryption keys to the police if they ask for them is an offense. Telling them that you don’t have the key — or that the file in question is just random numbers — is not an excuse.
(If an officer demands the key to decrypt this shirt, don’t worry: this is a legal shirt. You can tell him, quite truthfully, that it shows the start of my PGP key.)
You can call me Shadowfirebird.
Granted, as a name, it’s a bit of a train crash; but on the other hand if you have to ask why the guy that runs a site selling stuff with a ‘privacy’ theme doesn’t want to give you his real name, then perhaps you haven’t got the hang of this yet.
If you need to contact me then leave a comment. If that doesn’t work for you then I have a gmail account (not “googlemail”); I don’t want to actually spell it out because otherwise I’ll end up getting even more mail from Nigerians than I currently do. (Unless you are in fact Nigerian, in which case, I’d be delighted to hear from you.)
I suppose that this is the place for a bit of shameless self-publicity. In leu of that, I’ll admit to ranting occasionally here; and, slightly more interestingly, collecting stories of the rise and fall of strangeness here.
I realise that this site looks like a dog’s dinner at the moment. Please bear with me.
And my apologies in advance to the creator of this Tumblr template…
Like the new logo?
Here it is. The first design. Click on the picture to see how it looks on shirts, mugs, badges, bags, and ducks.
Why 4,619,873? No-one really knows how many CCTV cameras there are in the UK. The one thing I can say with relative certainty is: 4619873 is the wrong number. (In which case, if you don’t live in the UK, it doesn’t need to stop you buying a shirt.)
In the next couple of weeks I’m going to be posting links to Teeshirts and the like that I’ve designed.
Most of them will be on a pro-privacy theme. Profits (and there won’t be much of them; the aim is not to make money here) will go to a relevant charity — No2id or Liberty, I should think.
Some of them will be more general, and if I scrape a few pence there it will go into a fund to pay for a custom website, pay for a a graphics tablet, like that.
If no-one buys the stuff then I won’t mind. And I won’t be out any money.
