
Announcements and Observations

Vaporware Corporation proudly announces its continued leadership in
online publishing technology.  You've heard of plain ASCII text and
you've heard of hypertext.  Now the wizards at Industrial Smoke and
Mirrors Laboratories have come up with the first "scratch and sniff"
protocol for electronic documents.  A prototype follows:

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                    ___....-----'---`-----....___
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                     ___`---..._______...---'___
                    (___)      _|_|_|_      (___)
                      \\____.-'_.---._`-.____//
                       `~~~~`.__`---'__.'~~~~'
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Instructions for use: take a hammer (a sledge hammer or carpenter's
hammer will do) and firmly strike the CRT of your terminal/PC where
it displays the prototype picture.  As you pick pieces of glass out
of your face and arms, you will note the smell of burning electrical
components.  This is an accurate reproduction of the smells that 
result when a planet-sized hammer strikes a Galaxy class starship.

[All right, so this is "bash and sniff" technology, not "scratch and
sniff" as we promised.  Give us a break, this is just a prototype. 
We're working on it. - KPHH]    WARNING: this is a prototype, and 
should only be used by qualified electricians.  Vaporware Corp. and
the Editor/Publisher of RAH assume no responsibility for any use or 
misuse of this new protocol.
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The deadline for submissions for the December issue of RAH is 
November 24, 1993.                                             {RAH}
