Sunday, October 31, 2004
houdini poof button article art artist writer ILIA fine art gallery
Here's the beginning of a spoof I wrote, you can click on the link to read the full article:
The Houdini Poof Button
an article written by Ilia
There was a collaborative effort amongst the worldwide manufacturers of computer keyboards. The exact date of this secretive meeting is still unknown. The agreement, however, was discovered after much investigation, to our mutual benefits. Each manufacturer agreed to install the Houdini "Poof" Button into each and every keyboard manufactured.
You may have encountered the Houdini "Poof" button while typing an email, a message in a chat room or even using instant messengers. While typing, looking at your screen - all of a sudden whatever you were working on disappears. You hit the "back" key - nothing, you hit ctrl "z" - the data does not return. You swear at the computer to no avail. No matter what you do, you cannot get back the typed message. That's the "poof" part.
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Here's the beginning of a spoof I wrote, you can click on the link to read the full article:
The Houdini Poof Button
an article written by Ilia
There was a collaborative effort amongst the worldwide manufacturers of computer keyboards. The exact date of this secretive meeting is still unknown. The agreement, however, was discovered after much investigation, to our mutual benefits. Each manufacturer agreed to install the Houdini "Poof" Button into each and every keyboard manufactured.
You may have encountered the Houdini "Poof" button while typing an email, a message in a chat room or even using instant messengers. While typing, looking at your screen - all of a sudden whatever you were working on disappears. You hit the "back" key - nothing, you hit ctrl "z" - the data does not return. You swear at the computer to no avail. No matter what you do, you cannot get back the typed message. That's the "poof" part.
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