Let us trim our hair in accordance with Socialist lifestyle

Picked this up from William Gibson's blog -- this is the title of a series of government ads in North Korea exhorting gentlemen to keep their hair cropped short. It sounds like a great album title for the next Spiritualized album.

Quoth the BBC:

It stressed the "negative effects" of long hair on "human intelligence development", noting that long hair "consumes a great deal of nutrition" and could thus rob the brain of energy

One of my favorite parts of their campaign, this one from one of the North Korean newspapers:

"No matter how good the clothes, if one does not wear tidy shoes, one's personality will be downgraded."

There's actually something that Kim Jong Il and I can agree on.

LINK: BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | N Korea wages war on long hair