July 8, 2008
bozo.*
This magazine cover is incomplete.
Due to a mishap involving an FTP site, someone else should have been on that cover. Who, and why?
Note: it’s not the guy whose head is cropped off. It’s someone else, who is missing altogether…
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Answer
James “Kibo” Parry is the person missing from this list.
Kibo was the USENET acronmy of James Parry, who went around commiting lots of mischief on the internet at around that time (His antics were very popular since they didn’t really harm anyone).
After Kibo found out that Ross Perot (head of EDS/ Perot Data Systems) was standing for US president (along with Bill Clinton and George H Bush), he too went ahead and started a spoof campaign for the office of president. The nomination was archived by a university, and accidentally mirrored by the US White House, so he did, for some time, stand for president :-)
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July 8th, 2008 at 9:42 pm, GMT -0700 ( 1215578559 )
Ross Perot
July 8th, 2008 at 9:52 pm, GMT -0700 ( 1215579167 )
the ‘92 US presidential elections. the someone else conveniently cropped off is Ross Perot.
the result (need?) of Perot’s candidacy is in this very interesting article, talking about the ‘decoy effect’
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....s_politics
July 8th, 2008 at 11:14 pm, GMT -0700 ( 1215584063 )
damn. not perot?
guessing here .. is it Bozo the Clown?
July 8th, 2008 at 11:14 pm, GMT -0700 ( 1215584092 )
bozo because ppl want to chose between the lesser of two or three evils in this case?
July 8th, 2008 at 11:25 pm, GMT -0700 ( 1215584711 )
Kibo (James Parry)
July 9th, 2008 at 12:14 am, GMT -0700 ( 1215587665 )
The guy whose head is cropped off is Ross Perot
I am taking a guess. Is it Scott Barnes ?
July 9th, 2008 at 1:23 am, GMT -0700 ( 1215591800 )
the guy whose head is cutoff is ross perot..
going by the timeline, i would say.. marc andreesen, founder of netscape?
July 9th, 2008 at 5:02 am, GMT -0700 ( 1215604941 )
George Bush, Bill Clinton & Ross Perot
July 9th, 2008 at 9:10 pm, GMT -0700 ( 1215663000 )
Al Gore?
July 10th, 2008 at 6:36 am, GMT -0700 ( 1215696968 )
Can you elaborate on the ‘ftp site mishap’ ? I googled and googled and did not find any reference to it.
July 10th, 2008 at 7:48 am, GMT -0700 ( 1215701324 )
Naaaice :)
July 10th, 2008 at 9:02 am, GMT -0700 ( 1215705735 )
hey, yeah. sooper question!