CompuServe Messages

#Shovel-Ware & Anti-Art

    27-May-93 15:55:29
Sb: #Shovel-Ware & Anti-Art
Fm: John L. Sands 71214,2750
To: ALL
At a small amount of prodding from that famous author of "Guide to CD-ROM", Dana Parker, I have been asked to present the following titles for your consideration. These titles were originally thought up as a series of Art-Only CD-ROMs that would be produced with no data on them. They would instantly be bought by collectors of esoteric ROM titles to be placed in display cases, and by keynote speakers to be used as hand props during their talks. The first title was invented to demonstrate shovel-ware and was called,"LINCOLN, THE MAN, THE CAR, AND THE TOWN IN NEBRASKA." Due to the large storage capacity of the media this title is do-able. Along the same lines was the difinative database of cheeses world wide. The ROM would have a tutorial on cheese manufacture, fun facts and figures about cheese, world production figures for the past 10 years (exportable to Lotus 123), and a nice cookbook selection of cheese recipies. On the same disc would be the difinitive database on ducks finishing with the cookbook selection of duck recipies. The title was,"CHEESE AND QUACKERS" (This was so corney that even Mark Foster wouldn't touch it.) The last (and worst) was a database titled,"DAIRY PRODUCTS OF THE HOLYLAND." The subtitle was, "Cheeses of Nazerith." Cheers, John L. Sands