Re: [silk] (self-promotion) Startlingly Important Kickstarter

2013-09-19 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: At least one silklister has taken the request to heart: http://boingboing.net/2013/09/18/give-jeremy-bornstein-15037.html Well it's not uncommon among humans to pay ridiculous sums of money to watch other humans make

Re: [silk] (self-promotion) Startlingly Important Kickstarter

2013-09-19 Thread Jeremy Bornstein
People buy all *sorts* of crazy stuff! On 9/19/13 7:36 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: At least one silklister has taken the request to heart: http://boingboing.net/2013/09/18/give-jeremy-bornstein-15037.html Well it's

Re: [silk] (self-promotion) Startlingly Important Kickstarter

2013-09-19 Thread Surabhi Tomar
People buy all *sorts* of crazy stuff! Ridiculous as it may be, people might be more inclined to pay for this than to donate to a charity. One taps into our feelings of guilt, pity and other such negative feelings and the other taps into a sense of fun. Same reason why spending 4k on a dinner