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Interesting choice of text in the Keynote '08 icon Apps
This one goes in the "totally useless but an interesting oddity" category. At close inspection, you can see that the text on the "Q4 2008" document that's part of the Keynote '08 icon is actually the first three verses and then a few lines of a song called "The b*tch of Living" from the musical Spring Awakening (more from Wikipedia). Interesting choice of text for a document titled "Q4 2008."

[robg adds: I'll leave the lyrics search up to you, as Geeklog's censor engine makes linking to them a challenge. Although I can't read most of the words in the text on the Keynote icon, if you have the lyrics visible onscreen, it's clear that those are indeed the words being used. Who wants to wager that there might be a subtle change in the icon when the next Keynote update is released? :)]
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Interesting choice of text in the Keynote '08 icon
Authored by: mkuron on Mar 27, '08 08:11:29AM
I wonder how anybody is able to read the text in that icon... anyway, here's the 512 pixel version of the icon in all of its beauty:
http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/6843/keynoteyq7.gif

Does anybody know what's up with Q4 2008? The next version of keynote perhaps?

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This might not be coincidence
Authored by: critcol on Mar 27, '08 08:44:16AM

The song in question was a freebie Download Discovery track from iTunes from the second week in Jan, 2007.

There's an added connection that might help explain it. Or maybe the icon designer was a fan who lobbied to give away the track.

But it's not completely random.



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Interesting choice of text in the Keynote '08 icon
Authored by: Angostura on Mar 27, '08 09:52:56AM
My personal favourites are the preference files created by the old Office v.X suite. They were clearly designed in the days before you could view icons at such large sizes. Alongside two radio button controls is some tiny text. Make the icon large and the lines read:

  • Can you read this
  • I don't think so

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  • More to find ...
    Authored by: tice on Mar 27, '08 05:50:01PM
    UsingMac.com has this and even more icon-texts.

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