• Dick Oliver, president of Cedar Software, is The Coolest Guy in the World!!! Not only did he send us a spiffy diploma-thingy, but he also sent us way-rad fractal ties. People, coolness like this should not go unnoticed...if you have the chance to, buy something from Cedar Software. We mean it.

• The Houston Chronicle of June 18th talked about us in their On-Line section. Todd was nice enough to type it up so that we can bring you the text of the article on the web.

• John Kelso from the Austin American-Statesman did a lovely little article on us August 7, 1995 (Austin/Boston, within a day of each other, coincidence? You decide!) Since Chris is from Austin, he had to type this one in just in case you want to see the actual text.

• The Boston Globe wrote an interesting editorial using us on August 6, 1995. The text is here, because you know you're curious.

• Thanks to Dave Winer of HotWired for blurbing us August 3, 1995. Okay, it's in a postscript at the bottom of an article about Microsoft, but still, we're all for it!

• We were listed under the SharewAIR section of the Annals of Improbable Research. Don't know how or why, but the authorities said best leave it alone. I'm not sure we're still here...but, hey, we were, I swear!

• We got put on (and of course taken off of) Netscape's What's New page for July 14.

• We got put on KZON 101.5FM Phoenix's links page. What's really cool about this is that they interviewed Todd on the phone and played that on the radio to, like, gazillions of Phoenixians. Wowee, huh? Wanna hear the actual broadcast? (840k .au) We're proud

• We got put in the Useless Pages archive, right under Mr. Wu's Send-a-Pickle!!!

• Yahoo bestowed us a place in their Entertainment: Humor, Jokes and Fun listing. Immortality, here we come! Teehee.

• The Advanced Graphics Division at Silicon Graphics, Inc., some other scientists devoted to pushing the envelope of discovery and experimentation, saw fit to include us on their Antics and Mayhem page.

• Were were apparently mentioned in passing in Inside Media magazine on 9/20/95. It isn't exactly prominent, but it's there!

• We were also bestowed a place in the world-famous and well-known magazine Photo Electronic Imaging Magazine vol.38, no.10, 1995. "Tom and John" (possibly aliases to protect their identity) were lovely enough to send us photocopies, since we both seem to have let our subscriptions run out. Anyways, the text of the column is available for your reading pleasure.

• A new surge of interest has landed us on USA Today Online's Cyberlistings page (for Oct 15, 1995). Wow! A National Newspaper! Where's our Nobel Prize?

• At about the same time (October 19, 1995), we ended up on the Tres Bizzarre page, which is supposedly a look into the stranger side of the web. I don't think we're as strange as these pages, but then again, its not our decision.

• Were were sort-of-featured in Netsurfer Digest Volume 1, Number 32. Wow! I think I'll go tell my mom. They were so nice, that we have blatantly stolen a copy of the article and put it up here.

• We were picked as the Humor Site of the Every Other Day for a couple days in August. It would have been only one day, but this guy is too lazy to change his link every day. Oh well, thats more "glory" for us I guess.

• We were reviewed as part of the Top 5% of the Internet. We're somewhere in the maze of pages. (5% is a lot of sites!) I think we're under Entertainment/Humor or something like that. We actually are tied with a couple other pages for highest "Experience" score in the category. Does that mean that Todd and Chris are experienced? Beats us!.

• We were mentioned somehow, somewhere, in "The Quad", the newspaper of West Chester University. Who is this Chester guy anyway?

• We were placed on the Underground Internet Poster put out by PC Computing Magazine in December 1995. This was the same issue that they picked the best 1001 sites on the Internet. We're slightly bitter that we were put on the poster, which has 121 sites, but not picked as one of the best 1001 sites. That doesn't make sense. They even had a "Junk Food" Category! Of course, this IS the same magazine that picked their OWN site as one of the top 10 picks.

• We were blurbed in the November 17-23, 1995 issue of LA Weekly. (thats Vol.17, No. 51. p. 125). They blurb us, we blurb them. Fair huh? If anybody is feeling particularly generous, we'd appreciate a copy of this. LA is a long way away.

• We were blessed with a full feature article in the Philadelphia Inquirer on November 30, 1995. They were nice enough to put the text of the whole article online, so we could simply cut and paste the text of the article instead of having to type it in. Thanks Tanya!

• Rumor has it that there was a nifty article in the San Jose Mercury News on December 4, 1995 (page 12C). Todd has relatives there, so we should have the text of this one sometime soon.

• We were mentioned in an editorial in the December 1995 issue of Computers In Nursing Magazine as a great example of basic research. Twinkies as hospital food? Hmmm. Who knows?

• On December 6, 1995, we were placed on something called Suck. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? We're not quite sure. Actually, we're not quite sure what this page IS, much less what being placed on it means for the future of Twinkie research. Several people sent us notes about it though, so whatever it is, people must read it.

• U Magazine sez: we're worthy! Whatever that means, they say they'll be linking to us sometime, but they haven't yet. But we've linked to them, so fair is fair. Turnabout is fair play. My Fair Lady is a good play, too. I'm done now.

• Apparently, the aforementioned article by Tanya Barrientos was picked up by the Knight-Ridder news service. Now twinkie articles are showing up in papers across the country, including the Washington Post (12/6/95), Arizona Star (12/9/95), Toledo Blade (12/??/95), the Jacksonville Times-Union (12/7/95), the New Haven Register (12/??/95), Annapolis Capital (12/??/95), the Yakima, Washington paper, the Abilene Reporter-News (12/11/95), the Detroit Free Press (12/12/95), the Raleigh News and Observer (12/14/95), and the Austin American Statesman (12/23/95). Wow! This is cool in that we get widespread fame, but bad in that it stifles creativity. Its the same damn article in all of them.

• KISW Radio in Seattle placed us on their cool links page. They are propogating the vicious rumor that you can find out the exact shelf life of a Twinkie by looking at this page. Once and for all, this is FALSE! We don't know what the exact shelf life of a Twinkie is. How can we test that when we haven't even been alive that long??

• WLLZ 98.7 in Detroit did a big on the air plug of us. I don't suppose anybody happens to have it on tape and wants to send it to us? Didn't think so.

• We had a couple screen shots on MTV's "The Year in Rock", where Kurt Loder described the page as "an existential contemplation of the lowly Twinkie." We've now hit all the major medias! Hooray! Radio, TV, Books, Magazine, and Web. Do we get a medal now?

Please note: Due to the large volume of mail that we receive, we cannot individually answer all messages. We DO read them all though, and answer those we deem worthy.

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