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Converting to 3D

Yes it is true, a last minute change request by one of our producers is pushing the release date of the All New The Wrong Guide 3.0 (beta) back yet again by several weeks or decades: a painstaking conversion to 3D. We hope the required glasses will not inconvenience our old fans, in fact we believe it will enhance your reading experience and make the website more exciting and lifelike.

web & tech

For the Record...

“Wonderful”

Unclassified review of the iPad – placed on the record by National Security Agency chief Lieutenant General Keith Alexander in a Congressional hearing today (not about the iPad).

From “NSA Chief Loves His iPad” – Forbes (via Daring Fireball)

Wrong Travel

The Wrong Guide to Circumnavigation

Great interview on Slate’s Cultural Gabfest with Seth Stevenson who set out to travel around the world without using an airplane – the discussion gets into the arcane meaning of “curcumnavagation” which apparently doesn’t mean you leave from New York and go to Asia and Europe and end up back in New York – that is too easy, even by bus or train. No, it means “one which passes through at least one pair of points antipodal to each other” as Wikipedia defines it. Stevenson defined it as going at least as far in miles as the circumference of the equator, which he did with his girlfriend  an no air travel. The result is a book called “Grounded: A Down to Earth Journey Around the World.” If you haven’t the time to read it – at least have a listen to the interview – good for anyone wanting to slow it down a bit and see the world.

Slate Cultural Gabfest

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Making a better virtual world...

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Multi-Touch Areas of This Website

  • Pressing hard for 2 seconds activates uncensored posts
  • Swiping left then right opens Internet Explorer version, then crashes
  • Bold clapping sets brightness to zero – secondary claps posts a positive Twitter link
  • Eight finger pinch – Rick Roll (only works with right thumb and left index finger )
  • “The Smudge” – drag pinky around text to smooth out course language
  • “Hands on the Hard Copy” – both hands on page for 24 hours – win a truck
Quote of the Day

But is Dairy Cream Still a Good Investment?

“The economy will be in shambles, throughout 2009, and, for that matter, probably well beyond.”

Warren Buffett in a letter to his investors this weekend.

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The Wrong Guide 3.0...

Is still being assembled at a plant in Argentina.

The recall following the unfortunate deaths of several test children has set our schedule back six months at least. But we are certain The Wrong Guide will be back and better than ever – and in full 16 bit color!

While you wait – please proof-read these past Guides for accuracy and spelling.

interviews

The Wrong Guide Interview: The Wrong Guide

picture-21Hey Wrong Guide, how’s it going?

Good, good…and you?

Fine, Fine. Anything good coming up soon?

We should have a new edition by 2011 and a new video.

What in blazes is taking so long?

My addiction to Goldfish Crackers – retards the creative process…and I have a life.

So what exactly do you mean by “The Wrong Guide”?

You know that time when you make a mistake – go the wrong way – and you end up in a place even better than the one you set out to find? And then you try to go back and figure out how you got there, but you can’t?

It’s about that kinda thing. It’s a guide to the unrepeatable.

That’s exactly what it means…but I could be wrong.

Still, it sounds kinda negative?

I’m not a fan of the words “right·’ or “correct.” All guides are full of it, really. This one is going to be more honest. This is the Anti-Dr. Phil.

Smooth Peanut Butter or Crunchy?

Smooth.

Favorite T.V. show this season?

Anything with dogs And Battlestar Galactica.

Best Interview?

The Wrong Guide Interview: The Wrong Guide. Excellent questions.

Thanks, but you wrote them.

Hey that’s right!

Whimsy

On the Window of a Bangkok Taxi

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Finish This Joke -

Joke with obscured punchine seen written on audience bleacher railing at Obama Inaugural. photographed by David Bergman