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Dumb Cuneiform: Memorialize Your Tweets in Cuneiform

posted by CoolHand on Monday November 09 2015, @04:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the making-sure-future-generations-remember-us-properly dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

You send us your most ephemeral and worthless communications, and we'll carefully transcribe them into the most long-lasting medium known to man - a clay tablet.
...
        Here's how it works:
        Just send us a tweet or text (use the text field in the order form)
        We'll carefully translate it into cuneiform
        We'll stamp it on an actual clay tablet
        and mail it to you.

Favorite jokes? Amazing pickup lines? Your 2-star review of last summer's blockbuster?
KEEP IT FOREVER.

I dunno, the choice of Old Persian is rather questionable when everyone knows the lingua franca was Akkadian, and looking at the tablets it's pretty clear they were using a sharpened chopstick rather than reeds harvested from the banks of the Euphrates. In sum: FAIL.

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  • (Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Monday November 09 2015, @05:05PM

    by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Monday November 09 2015, @05:05PM (#260823) Journal

    Now I'm thinking about what would be involved in building a USB clay tablet printer...

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  • (Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Monday November 09 2015, @05:37PM

    by Joe Desertrat (2454) on Monday November 09 2015, @05:37PM (#260838)

    Now I'm thinking about what would be involved in building a USB clay tablet printer...

    Will there be Linux drivers released for this?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 09 2015, @06:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 09 2015, @06:04PM (#260842)

    Why not adapt a 3D printer to use clay, bake it in an oven to cure?

  • (Score: 4, Funny) by jdavidb on Monday November 09 2015, @06:55PM

    by jdavidb (5690) on Monday November 09 2015, @06:55PM (#260856) Homepage Journal
    The first edition of Programming Perl, long long ago, had hysterical examples of Job from the Old Testament sending out messages from Perl through CTBCPP, Clay Tablet By Carrier Pigeon Protocol, featuring a description of Job's laser clay tablet engraver. Loved that pink camel book - the world has changed a lot since then, and seems to take itself much more seriously.
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    • (Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday November 10 2015, @09:19AM

      by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Tuesday November 10 2015, @09:19AM (#261161) Journal

      > Job's laser clay tablet engraver

      Yeah it looks shiny, but it's way overpriced for the specs and doesn't engrave properly if you are "holding it wrong".

      > the world has changed a lot since then, and seems to take itself much more seriously.

      I think it's just that the geek world has shifted out of the workplace. It used to be that the only place for geeks to get together and share in geek humour and geek culture was at work (and only then if you happened to work in a sufficiently geeky workplace) but now there is the internet, which provides a million places to swap obscure SF references and comedic short stories.