GIGO: words unreadable aloud

Tuesday 23 April 2002

David Rees' Comic

Since the NY Times has an article about David Rees, it's time to note my favorite quote from his comic strip:

"Bah. We're living in the 21st century, and people still wage war to impress invisible superheros who live in outer space!"

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Links um die Ecke

Doc Searls mentions some linguistic adventures in Switzerland. My father told the following story years ago. He had just learned some German, so the vocabulary lessons are fresh in his mind when he visits Frankfurt. One of the practice dialogs went like this:

Q: Wo ist der Bahnhof? (Where is the train station?)
A: Links um die Ecke (Left, at the corner.)

So he's walking down the street in Frankfurt, when someone approaches him and says "Wo ist der Bahnhof?"

His reply, "Links um die Ecke", is out of his mouth and the poor tourist is off towards the corner before my Dad realizes what just happened.
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Virtual Records, Emergent Music

Doc Searls had a pointer to this Salon article by Damien Cave, about Joe Byrd's American Metaphysical Circus and his attempts to get some royalties from the record company that apparently still sells it.

And Dave Winer pointed to the Emergent Music weblog.

It keeps looking more and more like it's just about time for someone to turn Virtual Records into a real business.
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