Like a lot of people, I really couldn't care less about the substance of the typewritergate allegations. You mean George W. Bush avoided serving in Vietnam and got help through family connections and was kind of a fuck up? No way...
But I like the Agatha Christie-ish trail of clues, as well as a lot of the sententious commentary. Maybe I'm missing what he was driving at, but I particularly liked the expert who maintained that it's extraordinarily difficult to type a lower case L using MS Word. (And if there is something I'm missing about it and I'm wrong to be amused by it - well, call me frivolous and self-absorbed, but I don't want to know. I prefer to be amused, I mean. That's mostly because MS Word seems to have been deliberately designed to make writing as difficult as possible, yet typing a lower-case L is in fact the one thing I seem to be able to manage without some wizard or other stepping in to commit a bizarre act of sabotage. If, unlike me, you want facts instead of laughs, this guy goes into it in depth, and God bless him for it.)
Anyhow, and moving right along, I love the neologism "pyjamahedeen."
And I thoroughly enjoy all the Dan Rather-bashing, which is enjoyable and satisfying as only the ridicule of the wealthy, the pompous, and the self-important can be.
To wit: this is the best, and most substantive, thing on the subject you're likely to read.
Posted by Dr. Frank at September 17, 2004 05:30 PM | TrackBacksee...for me,much better than dated internet jokes, america would be a better place if stories like that were actually true.
I hope he knows my water bottle is the Inanimate
Overlord Of The Skeeksea Dragons.
A pact may be hard to maintain.
Posted by: just me at September 19, 2004 06:10 AMScore one for "new media". ;)
Posted by: JB at September 19, 2004 01:04 PMHe he....Word still giving you fits, eh??? Glad you're back and you and your monkeys had fun. The interview that Ben has been posting has been very interesting. I guess we all have different views and opinions on the music we listen to. Good stuff!!
Posted by: Zaphod at September 20, 2004 08:58 PMSo what's the deal with Joe Queer? Any comment?
Posted by: nick at September 21, 2004 07:02 AMYeah MS Word can be a raging pain in the ass.
For some real sinister fun, send someone a document they have to edit, enabled with true type fonts. In most cases they can't. Muah ha ha ha ha!
Glad you're back to update us on things.
I've also found the interviews interesting, and pretty insightful. Thanks for the links!
I'm in agreement, couldn't care less, but interesting nonetheless. Frank, did you check out the Daily Kos investigation of the whole thing (originally defending the authenticity of the memos)? Talk about exhaustive.
Posted by: sam at September 22, 2004 10:05 PM