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THE WORDLAB WORDLETTER Episode 5
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WordLab - http://www.wordlab.com
Tuesday, February 29, 2000
Happy Leap Year Day! Due to a calendrical
quirk, today is the first Leap Day in a "00"
New Century Year since 1600. We hope you are
all suitably dressed in the appropriate
Late-Elizabethan garb, and are prepared to
shake a spear and shave your bards. Where
did Marlowe go, and where has Jonson ben?
What has John donne, why is the Countess
pem-broke, why did Sir Walter rally and who
will stir France's bacon? All-in all, the
kind of day to make a puncrazy edadaist
swoon.
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WordLab now has over 15,500 unique entries
in 39 categories. Interest has been heating-up
on the WordBoard recently, as more and more
people realize what a valuable tool this is
for their own naming, sloganeering, and general
branding needs. Welcome WordLab Consultants
Sigi, Nameslinger, Elinka, Damon and Maven
to the WordBoard to assist with answering
the higher volume of thread requests. I urge
all of you to take advantage of it when you
need a custom identity solution, and to
jump in there with your own ideas and help
for others' threads whenever possible. We
are building a premier free naming community
here at WordLab, but we need your help.
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Announcing MarketBUG.com - Proprietary
Quantitative Econometric Madness!
Our biggest news to report is that the new
Web project from the folks who bring you
WordLab, Quarx.com, has now launched. Nearly
one year in the making, MarketBUG.com is
here! A unique slant on the stock market
far from the madding crowd of Wall Street,
MarketBUG features the proprietary models,
stock screens and market insights of a
top-rated portfolio manager, Cedd Moses,
all colorfully (insanely) interpreted by
the site's iconoclastic fictional figurehead,
BUG. This is not your typical Wall Street
brainpan! MarketBUG offers a free
two-week trial subscription with no
obligation. Check it out at
http://www.marketbug.com .
Cedd Moses has been ranked at or near
the top in investment performance as
an aggressive-growth portfolio manager
for the majority of his ten-year
professional career. Our Quark at WordLab
has been a close friend of Moses for many
years, and to make a long story short,
Moses and Quark both felt that a dynamic,
web-based delivery of Moses' market mojo,
combined with a bit of the offbeat WordLab
sensibility, would make quite an impact
on an unsuspecting stock market public.
Quark has forever felt the typical straight
and narrow investment Web product left the
door wide open for a Wall Street Madman.
Enter BUG, a career stock trader by turns
irascible and charming, lovable and
disgusting; a bug of a man, but a prince
among worms. BUG can soar to the highest
reaches of human consciousness, then
suddenly plunge to the lowest echelons of
comic depravity, all the while dishing out
insights about the market and what MarketBUG's
proprietary trading models are indicating.
In his cavernous head, BUG travels the world
through Time and Space, while in fact burrowed
underground beneath his Airstream trailer deep
in the desert of his own devices.
In a sense, think of MarketBUG.com as how
WordLab would treat the stock market if WordLab
partnered with a top money manager and had a
daily column. Along with Market Guru Cedd Moses,
the daily BUG Notes are co authored by Quark
and Snark, your loyal WordLab flounderers.
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On MarketBUG's free public BUG Notes page -
http://www.marketbug.com/mb/notes/ - you can
read the daily column, even if
you choose not to subscribe. In the BUG Notes
Archive - http://www.marketbug.com/mb/archive/ -
you can read all the past issues of the BUG
notes. If you really want to PUNish yourself
(and what self-flagellating WordLubber doesn't
want to do that ?), then check out the recent
column from Feb. 24, 2000 - "Hack Scene," which
is BUG's demented view of the Grammy Awards,
nestled among market commentary, of course.
Here is an excerpt:
"I arrived at the new Staples Pavilion and
quietly slopped undercover backstage, where I
was told I would find The Beast (first false
alarm - no Bob Seeger in sight). Scantily clad
hostesses flitted about and pumped me up with
Merry Bilgewater and Ricky Martinis, 'till my
head began to Sting. I had been poisoned!
Everything took on an Everlasting urban
contemporary pulse; I was woozy, but I could
tell I was close, real close, to the forces of
evil. Rounding a mushroom corner, I came cheek
to jowl with a gorgeous tart-tongued giantess
submerged in yards of red satin who was to host
this telethong of aural beefcake. I ducked
under an outstretched limb and scurried BUG-like
down a long hallway following a flock of
cormorants through thickets of maize and obtuse
assemblies of Dixie Chicks. I was assaulted by
American Pie Charts committing senseless acts
of violins, cool Cuban's in smoking jackets
nodding approvingly at my Donna Karan
leg-warmers (from where Janet Reno listened-in
to my every waddle), Diana Kralling on all
fours, Colours magazine threatening to Bury
White, Rickety Martians eating Eminems, in
short the whole sordid spectacle our trippy
pre-Tipper Gore culture has become."
So come on down to the Pod that BUG Built!
And tell your friends.
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