Factoid of the day

In his book International Government (1916), Leonard Woolf referred to an organization called the International Association for the Suppression of Useless Noises. As an expert on Woolf has remarked, this is "a body whose revival is perhaps long overdue": Peter Wilson, "Leonard Woolf and International Government," in Long and Wilson, eds., Thinkers of the Twenty Years' Crisis, p.155 n.37.

Even better would be the creation of an International Association for the Suppression of Muzak (muzak = the canned/homogenized sound that comes out of the ceilings of commercial establishments).