Sound Defender Mugs

"I'm sorry, but you can not wear noise protection when teaching your music classes.".

Late Stage Capitalism and the Biosphere Engage in Some Meaningful Dialogue...

Robots search for people's personal information in the cloud.

At the rock concert...

The Music Seed

A lock labeled 'freedom' covers a man's mouth.

The Cost of Censoring Free Speech.

"Some trees in New Hampshire hate being hugged."

Climate Change

Spammatic blaster - gun to shoot pop-up ads.

The New Normal

Privacy - Surveillance

"No coal here, either - but you never know until you look."

'Maybe a firewall isn't enough to protect our computer from worms and viruses. That's why I additionally installed this fence!'

'Well look, here come the hackers!'

'Jeff is a tackle on his online college football team.'

"The third leading cause of forest fires."

'Theaters from Hell' 'We have no sound engineers, so no there's not a good seat in the house.'

"What the heck? How are we supposed to roam the plains if men put these things everywhere?"

"These targeted ads are getting out of hand."

"You see? I told you if we tied ourselves to this tree they wouldn't cut it down. Persistence is the name of the game. Persistence."

"Hack back with all you've got!"

Things that go beep in the night.

"I want one that detects intrusions by hackers, then blows their computers to bits!"

"That didn't work either! I'm telling you, this is one AGGRESSIVE virus!"

Greenpeace protestor joining the birds.

Quadruple dark hot chocolate. Whoa, everything all right? Sure, yeah, great. I'm a journalist and writer in an era in which the printed word has been totally devalued by free distribution of information on the internet. Can I pay in prose? Point taken.

'The environment people only worry about endangered species, not endangered individuals.'

"Are you sure you updated the anti-virus software?"

"We've got to fix the climate before we run out of trees to print money on."

Bob soon began to hate his new anti-spam software.

"I know eight hours sleep a day is normal... but not at work!"

Spam.

"Hi, I'm the new IT-security-expert! Where is your server room? I want to see if I can overcome your firewall!"

"With all the cybercrimes corporate had to bring in a new guy, Supergeek."