Quote: And if anyone objects that they are not worth the effort, I will cite Cioran (not a classic, at least not yet, but a contemporary thinker who is only now being translated into Italian): ‘While the hemlock was being prepared, Socrates was learning a melody on the flute. “What use will that be to you?”, he was asked. “At least I will learn this melody before I die.” ‘ [Calvino]
I’m meeting up with a friend from University who I haven’t seen in over five years. Nick Carey was this bearded wonder who used to roam around my old halls of residence, getting drunk and misbehaving. He used to have a scruffy mess of curly hair as well. Once, he and Fenner ran naked in the rain at night across Goldney’s lower paddock while I stood, eyebrow raised with an umbrella and their clothes. He’s been in Prague on and off for years now, and I keep losing track of him. I’m fascinated to know what he’s like now. I’m also horrified by him saying something like, “Jesus Christ – what the fuck happened to you?!
The BBC finally decides to cover the whole ICANN controversy: Domain Dispute Drags On. The whole issue frustrates me – particularly the potential loss of .org domain names as held by individual creative sites (such as plasticbag.org).
Why said Microsoft didn’t have a sense of humour? I’ll tell you who – pretty much every single rational and intelligent man, woman or child in the Western hemisphere.
Today I found a page in my referrers log which really quite interests me. It’s a Quick Essentials page for a fellow weblogger, which uses simple javascript window.open commands to open all the sites that he wishes to view on any given day in one go. When you click onto a link windows erupt onto the screen, allowing you to scan them all with tremendous speed. And each link launches sites with similar content. It’s an extraordinarily simple little piece of code, and ideal for an individual’s homepage. You may see aspects of its functionality incorporated into plasticbag.org over the weekend.
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Thanks to Francesca Gavin, London Media Maven, for sending me this particularly … juicy … link from the Ottowa Citizen Online: Dead slug was no treat for horrified snackers. It’s enough to put you off Rice Krispie Squares for ever.
A while ago I was talking about reading Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s From Hell – a savage graphic novel about Jack the Ripper. Featured as part of the book is the transcript of a letter purporting to be from the killer himself. In fact the book contains many dozens of letters written by the general public concerning the murders, each one claiming to be the perpetrator of the Whitechapel murders. In the news today, one such letter has been made public for the first time: “The so-called Openshaw letter is littered with spelling mistakes and bad grammar in a “Cockney” style, and is signed by ‘Jack the Ripper’.”. The article is a fascinating read, and ever more so when you read Moore’s fictional account alongside it…
Helpful insight into my work-related quandary? [cf. yesterday’s post]
Meg returns, and with a new design to boot – plus a really long piece of writing about why she went away and why she came back…