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General Category => Culture Vultures => Topic started by: Cynthia on June 24, 2008, 02:44:15 PM

Title: Kill the screen saver
Post by: Cynthia on June 24, 2008, 02:44:15 PM

flying toasters no mas (http://green.yahoo.com/blog/forecastearth/49/you-don-t-still-use-a-screen-saver-do-you.html)

Title: Re: Kill the screen saver
Post by: BT on June 27, 2008, 06:03:23 PM

without flying toaters there would be no moveon.org

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Blades and Boyd in 1987 founded Berkeley Systems, a software firm which made a name for itself with its "After Dark" screen-saver series -- remember those flying toasters? Later, the company produced the popular online interactive game show "You Don't Know Jack." Blades and Boyd eventually sold Berkeley Systems to another company.

They launched MoveOn in September 1998 as an online petition urging Congress to censure President Clinton and, well, move on. More than half a million people signed, but the real eye-opener was that many also pledged campaign money to Democrats through its political action committee.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0226-02.htm