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Monday, March 2, 2009
‘KGB’ wants to answer your texts… comrade
(At right: spy texting is blurry by design.)
The Knowledge Generation Bureau has launched “kgbkgb.com” (that’s KGB x 2), a service that will answer questions posed via text. The questions are answered by a staff of so-called “Special Agents” who, if logic follows, are powered by secrecy and vodka.
Ordinarily, this would filed under, “Interesting, but not local,” but the service is going on a nationwide tour to spread the KGB gospel. They’ll be in Austin Tuesday and Wednesday on the “What Does America Really Want To Know” tour. That’s an easy one I can answer without their help: America really wants to know, “OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD WHAT ARE WE GONNA DOOOOO!?!?!?!”
They might have a different take on things than me.
If you’re interested in seeing where the tour will be in Austin, you can follow their tour blog. Incidentally, the Omar they mention who participated in a queso-chugging contest is not me, I swear. I do all my queso-chugging in the privacy of my own home.
Edited to add: Alert Twitter user Julie Gomoll points out that ChaCha.com seems to do exactly the same thing.
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