Moveon.org are the flying toaster screen saver people?????

[underpants]

I was talking to my brother the other night (he thinks W is a leftist) and he gets the basis of his information from US News and World Report. He said that Moveon.org was started by the people who had that flying toaster screensaver in the early PC days. He told me that they had all this money and time on their hands and they decided to become active politically.

Anyone know anything about this?

[Waistdeep]

1. Yes, it's true

Berkeley Systems. Wes Boyd and Joan Blades.

On edit: even better than flying toasters: "You Don't Know Jack".
MoveOn.org Staff page

[underpants]

2. Yeah I just found the article

I should have posted it not the question

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/031006/usnews/6moveon.htm

All this from the couple who brought you the flying-toaster screen saver. Joan Blades and Wes Boyd, a husband-wife team who started the software company that pioneered whimsical winged appliance graphics, founded MoveOn in 1998 as an E-mail campaign urging opposition to Bill Clinton's impeachment, an effort dubbed "Censure and Move On."

Call to action. Blades and Boyd have long been Democrats, but they weren't always politically minded. Their firm, Berkeley Systems, was geared toward developing software for the disabled; that mission was overtaken by the success of its screen savers. After selling the business in 1997, they planned to develop educational software. But "circumstances called us," says Blades. "There was a vacuum of leadership, and we stepped in."

[demnan]

3. I always loved that bad dog one in AfterDark

he was so cute.

[eyesroll]

4. Flying toilets!

I could use the flying toilets here in my current job (I write about the janitorial industry).

[underpants]

5. Do the articles have to do short enough to read in one sitting?

Sorry I couldn't resist.

Wow they sound like some real "page turners" :bounce:

I used to work in the plumbing suply and industrial supply (pipe, fittings, and valves)industry and those publications were real snooze inducers.

[eyesroll]

6. We try to keep them interesting...

There are some business and HR type things that aren't quite as drowsying.

I do get a lot of jokes, though.

[regnaD kciN]

7. Ah, that brings back the memories...

Flying out of the sun
The smell of toast is in the air
When there's a job to be done
The flying toasters will be there.
And it's flap! Flap! Flap!
Now help is on the way.
This vict'ry song they sing:
We pop up to save the day
On mighty toaster wings!

In brightest day of After Dark
When times of trouble are at hand.
The Flying Toasters set a spark
And hope is blazing 'cross the land
And its flap! Flap! Flap!
Salvation from above
This precious gift they bring
Gleaming angels of love
On mighty Toaster Wings!

Like the company I worked for at the time (Synergistic Software), Berkeley Systems got bought out by Sierra, who got bought out by CUC, who got bought out by Cendant, who got bought out by Vivendi. Needless to say, neither of our divisions lasted very long under such "management," which most often resembled a Dilbert cartoon come to life.

[ReadTomPaine]

8. I often think of Moveon.org as the last remnant of...

…the optimistic, anything is possible, 90’s high tech culture trying to save that vision of the future. I am thankful every day that they exist. Boy do I miss the 90's.