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April 2, 2005 12:05 AM
Broken: (Just for fun) Graphic Arts Exchange URL
Not necessarily broken, but an interesting point. Morgan Cloward points out that the Graphic Arts Exchange may want to change its URL from graphicartsexchange.com.
Well, artist historically have been quite open, if they want a web page about their sex changes, more power to them :)
I guess we see what we want to see... or what we are conditioned to see by our internet experiences, anyway.
Personally, I think a graphic art sex change is a good and safe alternative to surgery and I support the idea.
Apparently the graphic art is so different from "traditional" art that it shocks the viewer into... you know.
_@_v - that penisland site is broken btw... they have a menubar that is stuck over some obscuring bits...
Apart from URL issues, why would someone name a pen store "Pen Island"? It implies that it has less area and therefore fewer pens for sale than, for example, Pen Universe. It also implies that it's surrounded by ocean and you need a boat to get there.
The IT help site www.experts-exchange.com used to be at www.expertsexchange.com until someone noticed a similar ambiguity...
I believe Experts Exchange always advertised with the dash, but both URLs would resolve. At least, that's how it was when I last used the site (and noticed the problem!) in '98 or '99.
scatissue.com
oldtimersexchange.com
There were dozens of other ___sexchagne.com sites in the early .com days. Most have shut down in quiet embarrasment.
A classic, similar to Pen Island. From http://www.answers.com/topic/headlines.
Several years ago, when Tommy Thompson was Governor of Wisconsin, a Green Bay area newspaper planned to print the headline, "Thompson's Pen is a Sword." However the spacing between "Pen" and "is" was somehow removed. The error was not caught in time, and many Green Bay residents awoke to see the headline, "Thompson's Penis a Sword" on the front page of their morning newspaper. This error was soon featured during the Headlines segment.
There used to be a mailing list for techies managing the Microsoft Exchange email server system, hosted as msexchange.org. Quite apart from mail being occasionally rejected by over-zealous spam filters, it did cause amusement. In fact, some list members tended to refer to it as mSexChange.
Waht with one thing and another, the list moved to another domain with a less enertaining name and was never the same after that...
well at least they used "x" instead of "e" as the first letter of exchange. otherwise, the GAX would turn into GAE
www.powergenitalia.com I'm told used to be a website for PowerGen's (a power generation company) Italian sector. PowerGen Italia? Power Genitalia? Hyuk hyuk hyuk. . .
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graphica rtsexc hange .com?
What can it all mean?
Posted by: Matt at April 2, 2005 12:37 AM