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[realexplodingcat]

What gift has the internet brought me today?

http://eigenradio.media.mit.edu/

Sounds rather like you're sitting in space, maybe far out there on Pluto, and trying to make sense of all the radio frequency noise blasting off the planet Earth. I'll let the site explain itself. What a wacky and fascinating idea.

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[98.livejournal.com]

I am reminded of "IRTNOG".

[explodingcat.livejournal.com]

What is that?

[98.livejournal.com]

Title of a short story. People were getting too busy to keep up with reading all that was being published, even using the various digests. So digests-of-digests followed and so on to the logical(?) extreme conclusion. Each day the government would use arcane formulae to distill the day's printed output into a six letter word and distribute that to the public. Read just one word and feel informed. The first such day's word was "IRTNOG".

[explodingcat.livejournal.com]

Interesting idea. Who wrote it?

Shame we don't have that problem. Faced with too much reading, most people these days just give up reading altogether.

[98.livejournal.com]

Not certain who wrote it but I want to say Thurber. I think I will. Thurber! Thurber! Thurber!

oh yeah? i think it was....

[krasota.livejournal.com]

Bradbury! Bradbury! Bradbury!