I've just been listening to Chris Lydon's show with David Remnick on boxing. I didn't think I'd like it, but it's actually really interesting. Some of the comments on the show blog are quite interesting to read too. Boxing is something which seems to appeal to people on a whole multitude of levels: the 'baser' urges as described in some of the comments, but also something similar to René Girard's "mimesis" theory - and you could hear a secularised divine touch in the voices of some of the commentators on Lydon's programme - the sacrificial element, the interplay between the sacred and the profane (the sacred violence, and the profanity of the public display?). It's an interesting topic and one which I will have to think about. 
Just got Norm'd and Ophelia'd for my coverage of the Euston launch t'other day.
I've put up another cartoon. This one is called The Zany Web 2.0 World and is a somewhat jaded take on the Raftery/O'Reilly thing. Crazy Uncles, Steve [Gillmor] and Marc [Canter] appear for your viewing pleasure. 
So, the new Iraqi democracy and the wearing of shorts are incompatible. Democracy sucks - it simply means that if you get enough lunatics together in one room, they can boss other people around.
Om is discussing the news that Google have hired a "Visual Design Lead" ("Leader", shurely?) - Doug Bowman - who has been involved in some real nice, clean work.
...and Dave responds 
Dave has kindly answered my call! Thank you!
The first requirement may be possible - I have an old Mac upstairs which I've been intending to set up for something like that. I'm going to look in to how that could work, especially with regards to remote administration because it is effectively headless.
So, WebEdit, huh. There are some docs which I've found. If I'm grokking this correctly, what it means is that we have a Frontier-specific version of CVS or Subversion that we can use for object databases. That's cool. The OPML Editor / Frontier suprises me with it's depth, every day.
That fits really nicely with how I'm thinking about opmlUtilities.root - the Tool I released for mp3outliner (while we're talking about bootstraps - this is a sort of bootstrap in reverse - it's a fairly inefficient but open way of doing something which we make popular now, so we can make better later) - which I'd like to be a sort of repository for little hacks and ideas. Depending on how powerful WebEdit is, we could almost certainly make it very easy to have as a ground for pet projects and hacks.
Finally, I'll most certainly help others.
