Castro Speech Database
In honor of the past 12 years of Yahoo! Picks, we're calling up favorites from the archives. This feature originally ran the week of February 2, 1998, a time when Picks published weekly and wrapped everything up in a theme, or maybe that should be "a theme."
We quote from this particular week's missive:
"The State of the Web, 1998
Ladies and gentlemen, this week, in lieu of our regular feature, we are honored to present the annual State of the Web Address, a tradition dating back to early 1998. This formal address is mandated in Article XXXII, Paragraph IV of the Yahoo! Charter:
IV. In the first week of February of each year, the men and/or women who write Yahoo! Picks of the Week shall address the State of the Web. They shall then check the copier for paper jams."
And on we went to feature, among other sites, The Castro Speech Database, as compiled by the Latin American Network Information Center. It includes such dillies as the beginning of this 1996 address: "Dear comrades: Can you hear me clearly? We will talk as a family, okay? This will not be a speech on occasion of your departure, when there is plenty of love, kisses, good wishes, and patriotism. Talking as a family means analyzing realities, in private, not in front of the stairs as you are about to board the plane. Besides, the sun is very hot, and it is scalding, so it would not be the best place to say a few things."
Also, check out our votes for the Best Picks of 2007, which does come to you with love, kisses, good wishes, and patriotism.
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