At Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 11:44:59 Andrew Hickey wrote:

>On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 03:01:27 -0600, Ken Kase <kenkase@nighttimes.com> 
>wrote:
> > Another interesting thing: Earlier this year, I heard a story on 
>National
> > Public Radio about how the Library of Congress preserves music. You 
>won't
> > believe what they're doing! They are transferring CD's to 78 rpm shellac
> > discs because that's the most resilient form of preservation (provided 
>you
> > don't drop them).
>
>I *loved* reading that, and was about to post about it to another
>list, but then I googled to find the relevant information.
>Unfortunately, the date of that broadcast was April 1, 2003...
>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1216161

Take a closer look at the header on the NPR article....it says: "An April 
Fool's Day Treat from All Things Considered".

The sidebar has a saucy little piece about NPR hot Rick Karr: "The next wave 
of the future? NPR's Rick Karr shouts into the horn of a newfangled audio 
recording device that records his voice on a hardened wax cylinder. Rick 
Karr holds an audio-enabled wax cylinder. The grooves on the cylinder can 
play back his own recorded voice. The experimental wax cylinder prototype 
may one day replace shellac -- just as soon as scientists can conquer the 
challenge of melting."

At the bottom of the article is a number of links to April Fool's spoofs 
from previous years.

Methinks people have been hoodwinked. This piece smells like an 
ONION....without the biting satire.

Jaimie Vernon,
Bullseye Records