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Paper? They still make that stuff?
I'll admit it. Google's Gmail Paper April Fools Day gag got me late last night when I was all tired and groggy and indignant:
"Everyone loves Gmail. But not everyone loves email, or the digital era. What ever happened to stamps, filing cabinets, and the mailman? Well, you asked for it, and it's here. We're bringing it back."
Paper made from post-consumer organic soybean sputum? Genius.
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Stephanie Ogburn Posted 8:29 am
01 Apr 2007
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chrislatray Posted 3:13 am
02 Apr 2007
"Gmail Paper is a scrapbooker's dream. I paper archive all of my son's emails, cut them out in creative shapes, and paste them in my binders."
The Grist gag about Wal*Mart got me, I have to confess.
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caniscandida Posted 3:51 am
02 Apr 2007
Everything we can do to minimize the need for paper is plainly good.
That said, the codex, i.e. the object we usually refer to as a "book," a pile of rectangularly cut pieces of paper with information printed on each side, all of them bound together along one edge, is the most stable and accessible means for making textual information available that we have come up with. To be sure, there are spatial limitations, and the Internet is overcoming them, in some regards.
Nevertheless, there is nothing like holding a book in your hands and reading it.
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