Freud on super-heroes and super-villains?
The man who, in consequence of his unyielding constitution, cannot fall in with this suppression of instinct, becomes a ‘criminal’, an ‘outlaw’, in the face of society – unless his social position or his exceptional capacities enable him to impose himself upon it as a great man, a ‘hero’.
‘Civilised’ Sexual Morality and Modern Nervous Illness (1908)
A few CSS links from around the internet recently:
I’ll be buggered if I can figure out how to get photo-messaging or e-mail or the interweb working on my little T610, which they don’t tell you but doesn’t actually make images of a decent useful size (not 640×480, but 288×352 of all sizes). I’ve fiddled with the settings incessantly. Maybe I need to talk to the company themselves. Anyway – I’ll be buggered if I can send ’em, but I can sure as hell take ’em. Presenting a collage of the first few days with my new phone…
So the first members of the weblogging extended family have been exposed to AOL’s proposed new weblogging tools. The general consensus seems to be that they are of surprisingly good quality and that they are approaching the service more like LiveJournal than Blogger, Typepad or MT. I’m going to need to ponder this stuff a little more before I’m going to be comfortable presenting an opinion. In the meantime – here are the links:
It’s been a slow-posting week on plasticbag.org and that’s directly related to fast-moving, sleepless, hectic first week of new job acclimatisation. It’s still far too early to get a sense of what our every-day work is going to be like, but if it’s anything like what we’ve been doing so far then it’s going to be extraordinarily good fun.
Sometimes at UpMyStreet I’d lament the fact that working life was so infrequently like The West Wing. I’d developed a bit of a taste for thrusting, self-determining creative work while working for the BBC’s Making it Happen project, but UpMyStreet – for all the good work we did and all the cool people I met when I worked there – was not that kind of place. It didn’t have that kind of atmosphere at all.
This job has West Wing potential. Serious West Wing potential in fact… (Guess who was in the building on Friday). I can already see myself striding through corridors telling people about wheat yields in Arkansas, colliding with other walking-conversations about speech-writing and Congress. Will I fall over the camera? Will I remember my lines?
Ok. So this brief post is so entirely not about social software or weblogs or technology or futurism or ‘the industry’. This post is – well – it’s quite a lot more shallow than that. This post (which is nearly over) is quite simply about really really hot people. In particular one really really hot person. In particular this really really hot person – currently showing in a cinema near you… Dear God… Dear beautiful beautiful God…
The web splinters that have been working their way under my typing fingernails today include:
I’ll tell you something for nothing. I’m beginning not to care who’s right about this whole bloody RSS thing. Is it Dave? Is it Mark? Is it the Penry the mild-mannered janitor? I know it’s an important debate, and I know that the world’s not complete unless we have a fourth, fifth and sixth syndication format, and I know that I’m being dismissive of a legitimate and complex debate, but you know on the other hand…
When we went to Apple in Cupertino I got little Oskar a present that I thought he could grow into in a few months. And now he’s wearing it! Aw!
Lili was flustered. “But if you can do a complete revision in eight weeks, why not just finish it, then plan another revision, do that one in eight weeks, and so on? Why take five years before anyone can ride the thing?”
Why indeed?