The Kangakoe page
The GRAND reason why...
Well those MSDom machines, the decent
ones running windows anyway, do have
nice backgrounds. A bit boring though,
those 'marble' platings. !Aquarium made
a refreshing change, but not quite.
Then a certain duck started swimming in
a nice natural environment.
As usual, within a few years, the local
councils decided that the swampy rural
area was just the place to plan their
filthy train-track. Although there
appeared to have been some protest -only
of long haired, soap sniffing hippies,
which bring their little children as a
pathetic excuse to the protest outings-
of course, but nothing serious. Now,
with the train running its regular runs,
that neighbourhood, its social welfare
and the general atmosphere went down of
course.
And it was not for long that the first
real criminals appeared. As is custom in
the civilized world, at first they let
them do their job. Next after an
politically disastrous media outlet, the
high and mighty were forced to do
something about it. And again, as is
custom in our civilized world they
simply cured the symthoms, with the
usual far to harsh and besides the point
sort of measurements.
Some baddies were caught, more people
got killed and live went on, just as
social, as criminal, as it already was.
Newly created baddies still kept
spoiling the fun.
Meanwhile the council had build some
houses on top of the swampy area...
(there is more to that than it seems,
but that‘s for another story which is far
to smelly to elaborate on...) The people
living there spend most of their time
unhappy. Some went out robbing trains,
others went out beating up train-robbers
professionally but most of them found a
save outlet in reading nice books (a
few), watching soap opera (a few more),
or dreaming of finding a way out of this
grotty world (most).
And on a certain day, their collective
imaginations joined and the combined
meta-concert created something truly
unexpected. Their visionary inputs
received the images you are about to
unleash.
They picture an imaginary happy world,
with simple things, simple problems and
even simpler solutions...
KangaKoe was born...
!Kangakoe has features like:
- 'Soft' iconbar
- Mode independent.
Creators:
- Dirk Willem van Gulik, dirk.vangulik@jrc.it (the main part)
- Tijmen van Gulik,tijmen@worldonline.nl
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