Haunting the net [was: Re: [UA] Short Cons]

[Gaston Phillips]

on 7/2/01 12:57 PM, Radoslaw Galus at grey_man at priv.onet.pl wrote:

> Lets say there's this phantom site, which people occasionally stumble
upon
> while surfing. It's a legend of the geek-world. You may come across it
by
> accident but if you're looking for it on purpose, no luck. You can't
save
> it - what you get is a 10mb file of html gibberish. You can't bookmark
it
> either. It has no fixed url - you receive the 404 treatment and the link
> that got to the site in the first place is gone.
> 
[snip]

> What do you guys think?
> 

I like that a lot.  But what if we generalized it slightly?

An encyclopedia entry that gets cited often but is almost impossible to
track down once, and absolutely impossible to track down twice - (Borges
wrote something similar to this... Tlalon of Uqbar, or something?), the
pilot of a series that never got aired, a song by a band who had to be
long dead by the time the song was written...

Stuff like that?

gaston

PS: Jack Chance.  Absolutely.


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