Publié : 30 avr. 2010, 08:56
Apparement le titre a été choisi consciemment (ca fait encore plus bizarre avec l''explication) :
Why is the program called "Agent Orange"?
Because nothing kills trees like it.
Aren't you aware that Agent Orange was a toxin that wrought untold illness and destruction upon southeast Asia during the Vietnam War? What kind of monster would name a computer program "Agent Orange"?
I am a monster born in 1979, and while I try to be sensitive to such things, I needed a clever name that expressed the concept of 'killing trees,' as this is common idiom in our business for printing cuesheets. I tried "Dendricide" and a few others, but nobody got it; meanwhile, I haven't gotten any negative reaction from the people who actually use this program, and many people think it's genuinely funny. Of course, most of them were born after 1975, too. I have nothing but the deepest respect for the sacrifices made by the men and women of the United States armed forces in peace and in war; an uncle I never knew died in the Vietnam War, and several of my cousins and my brother now serve in the military. But all that was Vietnam, the tragedy, the loss, the cause of freedom against the oppression of Totalitarian Communism, has absolutely nothing to do with printing cue sheets. You may consider my use of the name a form of "sublimation" (in the sense of Herbert Marcuse), an attempt to reclaim a positive meaning in language from something with an otherwise-terrible denotation."
Why is the program called "Agent Orange"?
Because nothing kills trees like it.
Aren't you aware that Agent Orange was a toxin that wrought untold illness and destruction upon southeast Asia during the Vietnam War? What kind of monster would name a computer program "Agent Orange"?
I am a monster born in 1979, and while I try to be sensitive to such things, I needed a clever name that expressed the concept of 'killing trees,' as this is common idiom in our business for printing cuesheets. I tried "Dendricide" and a few others, but nobody got it; meanwhile, I haven't gotten any negative reaction from the people who actually use this program, and many people think it's genuinely funny. Of course, most of them were born after 1975, too. I have nothing but the deepest respect for the sacrifices made by the men and women of the United States armed forces in peace and in war; an uncle I never knew died in the Vietnam War, and several of my cousins and my brother now serve in the military. But all that was Vietnam, the tragedy, the loss, the cause of freedom against the oppression of Totalitarian Communism, has absolutely nothing to do with printing cue sheets. You may consider my use of the name a form of "sublimation" (in the sense of Herbert Marcuse), an attempt to reclaim a positive meaning in language from something with an otherwise-terrible denotation."