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11 February 2005: The March issue of the science-for-the-layman magazine, Discover, had the following ad on 23:
I like it. Of course, it's just a visual onomatopoeia, but it's as good as many such that have been turned out over the years by visual poets. Which is simply to say that hacks eventually can exploit discoveries quite effectively, after they've been certified and done nearly to death by creative people. It will probably amuse many of my readers to know, by the way, that I do not consider the airplane above a poem. It is instructional, so I assign it to my informrature category. All it would take to make it a poem is for it to be hung in a gallery or put in a book of visual poems, though. This visio-poetic way of teaching language strikes me as clever. If I only had time, I'd probably go further into debt to get a set of the CDS advertised.
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