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Sunday, January 11, 2009

Bush hid the facts

If you're using Windows: 1) Shame on you. 2) Open up Notepad and type in the phrase "Bush hid the facts" without quotation marks. Don't hit Enter, just save the file and close Notepad. Open the file again. OH MY GOD, BUSH AND MICROSOFT ARE TRYING TO SUPPRESS FREE SPEECH AND THEY'RE IN IT TOGETHER!

While I do hate Microsoft, I loathe conspiracy theorists even more. The garbled text you see is a result of a bug in Microsoft (surprise, surprise). It occurs with any phrase which has the order 4-3-3-5 in terms of characters and spaces. The phrase "Bill fed the goats" also elicits the same response. And even though it's true that "Bush hid the truth" doesn't fetch the same garble, "Brad ate the trees" doesn't, either.

This little bug was discovered in 2004 and conspiracy nuts ate it up, spreading it on the Internet like wildfire.

Solution: Save the file as ANSI rather than Unicode, then relax.

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