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Fun / foon Tokyo
Friday, August 13, 2004
Blogging's prior art: the "the BLOGG"
SF author Rudy Rucker's is running a guest column on BoingBoing and has uncovered the orgin of "Blogging"... Dr. Seuss!

Dr. Seuss's The Shape of Things...-presents the silhouettes of various things: "A bug, a balloon, a bed, a bike/No shapes are ever quite alike." Among all these familiar items and animals, exactly one nonsensical creature is depicted and described:
Suppose you were shaped like these or those,
Or shaped like a BLOGG!
Or a garden hose ....

Posted by trek/taro at 8:55 PM KDT
Updated: Friday, August 13, 2004 8:57 PM KDT
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