Charlie never should have gotten a CharlieCard. Since then, he’s had his checking account numbers stolen and sold to a Nigerian scammer, gotten busted in divorce court for having had an affair, been fired from his job for time fraud, and finally died at the hands of a low-level Mass. Bay Transportation Authority bureaucrat intent on avenging his daughter’s rape. Weekly Dig
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Hong Kong's MTR (metro system) has an "Octopus" card that's a soup-ed up version of this CharlieCard. You can use it to pay for transit, a latte, a sweater, shoes, soup, whatever.
A good friend of +q and I from undergrad (RG)created a short film on the Octopus card (in leiu of a research paper) for a seminar during our summer studio abroad in HK. He entered it in a film festival at UF the following semester and won 3 of the festival's 5 awards, including Best Religious/Spritual Film (Church of Consumption?)...
Here is the link to the aforementioned Octopus Card movie (I just uploaded it to YouTube so it may not be ready for viewing yet): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PF6wAPeiOw
This is the link to my website which also hosts the Octopus Card film (albeit slowly): http://www.sellegr.com
Disable popups to enter, click on "multimedia" in the main navigation page, then click on "tape cassette #1".
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