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That's some euphemism, isn't it? 'On vacation'
Seung-Hui Cho's half.com storefront page, according to this story in the London Times that quotes Camille Paglia. Shhhooot. I'm sure I don't have an opinion about how gender politics fits into mass murder. It's interesting, but so is Freud, and half his field thinks he was pretty much full of shit. Nice to see a long list on changes.opml.org Hi everybody. The new Twitter tool must have rekindled interest in the OPML Editor. Dinner conversation The Washington Post has a slideshow on Judy Chicago's famous Dinner Party installation, recently reinstalled in Brooklyn. Narrated by the artist. Good idea, but I wanted more! CNN and the BBC do a nice job with these slideshows for skimmers, some magazines do them (we're starting to at work for one of our magazines). Newspapers, not so much, not so well. Poor old newspapers. It was nice knowing ye. Piled higher and deeper Me too, via Dave, on David Weinberger's Huffington Post post about not piling on McCain's bomb-bomb-bomb bomb-bomb-Iran singing act. It's not just the idea that we're in the macacca age where every remark may be recorded, though that's a great point that Jeff Jarvis has been making for a while now. I think it's also about liberals being broadminded enough to set an example and not stoop to the picayune. If you were horrified when McCain and others seized on John Kerry's misunderstood joke, told just before the 2006 congressional elections, about "ending up in Iraq," you're no better if you exploit this. Moveon.org has done some really good work, but I'm afraid it's in danger of becoming one of those outlets like some liberal blogs that only other liberals pay attention to. Preaching to the choir kind of thing, and asking people to pile it on -- and not reaching the wavering and undecided where the game is won. I've been reading up on mobs and group behavior, movements and crazes and stuff. I'm still foggy on how online group thinking fits in, but I'm beginning to develop a sense for the difference between urging action and inviting the gang to pile on. Somehow it seems like this medium has something baked into it that fosters piling on. On piling on Anybody know about the history of the "piling on" penalty in American football? I've searched a little. I've asked on Yahoo Answers, but I never seem to learn anything there that wasn't already obvious to me! Do you? I'm interested in facts and opinions about: when the rule came into effect; what kinds of behavior led to it; contemporary reportage and debate about it; how you'd explain "why we don't do that" to a little kid; whether the term predated the rule, and how the term may have changed; if you think piling on seems to happen more easily online, and why. Found out about the 13-14-15 puzzle Seems to be one of those little 4-row, 4-column slidy puzzle things, you know with the numbered tiles, that you order by scooting the tiles around? I didn't know they'd been around for a hundred years. Apparently, if the starting positions reverse the 14 and 15 tiles, you can't solve it.
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