September 14, 2004
Dead ringer...
I hope this catches on as a classroom exercise:
I teach High School Graphic Arts and today we were talking about the study of fonts and how that might apply to every day life. One student brought up the story about the forged memos and the class had a pretty heated discussion over it.I wonder if there is anyone who still believes in the CBS mystery docs? Maybe Josh Marshall... Posted by John Weidner at September 14, 2004 05:33 PM | TrackBackIn our discussion, the student sat down at the computer and using Word...copied from a PDF of the memos that we printed. In about 5 minutes...he came up with something that was nearly an exact match to the PDF documents. He then took it to the photocopier and copied it...copied the copy and then copied that copy. He may have made 4 or 5 generations...
The final photocopy was a dead ringer for the PDF files downloaded from the CBS website. When we cut the signature off of the PDF documents and trimmed the ones we created via the photocopier to size...even I could not tell the difference. Even when we put them on a light table on top of each other...the spacing, kerning, margins, centering were identical...
IBM had superscript capable typewriters in the early seventies and the government always bought IBM.
Have you noticed how bush is spending ourmoney like there's no tommorrow... I suspect he does think there will be no tommorrow... An 'Endtimer'?
Okay, that makes two. (True Believers™, that is. I wonder when the "I Want to Believe... in the Memos" bumperstickers will come out?)
Posted by: Andrea Harris at September 14, 2004 06:48 PMYou know, Jack, there is denial and then there is delusion. You are solidly into delusion.
Posted by: Brian at September 14, 2004 07:33 PM
