All You Clever People With Your Computers
Negativeland affiliates Snuggles bring you Dictionaraoke Online. Speaking dictionary meets a weird array of rock songs, which winds up sounding like that one robot-voice from OK Computer wandered off and, well, started doing karaoke. They take a little while to download, but "Walk on the Wild Side" is worth it. Found via
The editorial crisis-management team here in Manhattan spent a long late last night over brandy and Doritos, pondering the e-mail etiquette dilemma raised by the Melbourne bureau yesterday. Members of the marketing department were quick to point out that "no publicity is bad publicity" and outlined a scheme for the good Dr. S to "increase mindshare" as an "academic bad-boy" for whom "rules are made to be broken." Wombat File's legal counsel, joining us by speakerphone from a tax haven she failed to identify, suggested that Art claim an "e-sanity" defense.
Our editorial intern suggested that the whole thing didn't sound like such a big deal, and that the good intentions behind the shared emails would probably become clear to everyone eventually. The editors had an eloquent and complex rebuttal to this youthfully optimistic view, but this morning when we woke up in the conference room next to the empty bag of Doritos, we could not remember a word of it.
Posted by B T at August 02, 2001 10:43 AM