Road to Nowhere

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The Nasdaq slumped—nay, crashed. Everyone and their mother is looking for work in the Bay Area. But why not pretend it never happened and celebrate all things high-tech by officially renaming California’s Highway 101 “The Information Superhighway”?

Sarcasm? Hardly. The San Jose Convention & Visitors Bureau says it’s serious about the idea, and mentions it in an online help-wanted ad seeking a public-affairs director (the ad was first unearthed by the über-techies at Salon.com).

The bureau says the plot was hatched, presumably with a straight face, by a vp of marketing there.



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