CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, and a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.

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November 3, 2009

Someone Should Write a Book on ... (permalink)
"Somebody should write a book on bizarre cases of credit attribution!"
—Douglas R. Hofstadter, Metamagical Themas, 1985, p. 358.

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...but they should say that it was written by Francis Bacon or Jimmy Hoffa.
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