HI Marcy and everyone. Did anyone else see that yesterday Google had a
little James Joyce face inside the "g"?
best
Ann
On Wednesday, June 16, 2004, at 04:26 PM, Marcy Bauman wrote:
> Hi, folks,
>
> Thought you might enjoy this . . .
>
> Marcy
>
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> Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 3:42 PM -0400
> From: "Kelly, Robert" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: "Bauman, Marcy" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: RE: and in honor of Bloomsday...Bloomsday Virus infects cell
> phones...Bob Kelly
>
> Bloomsday Virus Inflicts James Joyce on Mobile Phone Users
>
> The first ever computer virus that can infect mobile phones has been
> discovered, anti-virus software developers said today, adding that it
> has the potential to render many phones virtually useless.
>
> The French unit of the Russian security software developer Kaspersky
> Labs said that that virus - called Bloomsday - appears to have been
> developed by an international group specialising in creating literary
> viruses that try to "show illiterate technophiles the power of the
> written word."
>
> Bloomsday takes its name from the James Joyce novel Ulysses. June 16,
> 1904 is the day Joyce's protagonist Leopold Bloom famously made his
> travels through Dublin, and is celebrated annually by bibliophiles
> worldwide. Ulysses parallels a story about a day in the life of an
> ordinary Dubliner with Homer's Odyssey.
>
> The virus was apparently released in time for the 100th anniversary of
> the eponymous literary holiday. It infects the Symbian operating system
> that is used in several makes of mobiles, notably the Nokia brand, and
> propagates through the new bluetooth wireless technology that is in
> several new mobile phones.
>
> If the virus succeeds in penetrating the phone, it replaces the phone's
> address book and stored files with the entire densely symbolic novel.
> It
> is able to scan for phones that are also using the Bluetooth technology
> and is able to send a copy of itself to the first handset that it
> finds.
>
>
> "I was really freaked out when I turned on my phone and found this
> convoluted narrative mess crawling across my screen," said Jack
> Clemson,
> a University of Washington student who owns one of the first known
> infected phones. ""Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the
> stairhead,
> bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed..."
> I
> was pretty sure that wasn't my girlfriend texting me about lunch."
>
> The textual complexities and multiple editions of Joyce's novel have
> fueled a great deal of scholarship in the past hundred years, and this
> is likely to get even more complicated since an early examination of
> the
> Bloomsday virus version has revealed it does not correspond exactly to
> any other extant version of the text.
>
> "Ulysses may be the zenith of modernist writing in the novel form, but
> it's barely recognizable as a novel or as any other kind of writing,"
> said Francis Harrod, of the anti-virus software developer F-Secure. "Of
> course the same can be said of text messaging; but nonetheless I
> sincerely doubt America's youth is equal to the task of sudden,
> unanticipated confrontation with this book. It could be extremely
> damaging to their minds."
>
> Anti-virus experts are warning that this mobile phone virus is almost
> surely just the first of many, and that there exists a plethora of
> densely symbolic literature that could be inflicted on an unwary mobile
> phone-using public.
>
> "James Joyce is just the first salvo," warned Harrod. "Melville, Camus,
> Dostoevsky, Woolf... It's only going to get uglier from here on out."
>
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> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 3:27 PM
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> Subject: and in honor of Bloomsday
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>
> . . . did everyone see Google today?
>
> Marcy (off to get an ebook copy of Ulysses)
>
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