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[xanadu] flecks ?????
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- Subject: [xanadu] flecks ?????
- From: ____Textpert Alert____ <ianf@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 18:24:46 +0200
- Reply-to: xanadu@xxxxxxxxxx
In an article on de/merits of different web-payments
systems, professional loudmouth Joe Bob Cringely sez
this:
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20000831.html
> [...] PayPal, on the other hand, just shifts around
> dollars and cents from one person to another. Dollars
> and cents, not cyberunits or beanz or flooz or the
> currency my friend Ted Nelson wants us all to use,
> flecks.
^^^^^^
Flecks? "Flecks" as in "Xanadu-Flecks[tm]"? Where has
Ted Nelson described their workings, and what is the
genesis of their, uh-mm, fleck-y name? (Obviously,
I must've slept the last few years under a rock...)
__Ian
ps. observe (and appreciate?) absence of any 167 Ki jpg
attachement to enhance Your Reading Experience.