. I’m sitting here and it’s three in the morning and I’ve come across two sites that have (not quite literally) knocked me off my chair. The first one I just wrote about. The second one is the new {fray} piece by Derek Powazek, illustrated by Claire Robertson: playing with fire. Maybe I get around in the wrong circles or something, but it’s been 5 years or so since Carl (with friends) did Rats to Cats, and I haven’t seen anyone really push the idea of illustration on the web, mixed with great text, in the same way that Derek and Claire have now done. Congratulations are in order.
There’s a new
real-life kernel to what will surely become an urban legend in the Montreal Gazette today. It’s about a guy who returned a defective Visor back-up module to Bureau en Gros (that would be Staples to non-Montrealers) – only to have a friend call him up and let him know that he’d been reading the guy’s diary in the store a minute ago. The story’s been going around Montreal for a couple of days now – I know a couple of journalists who were approached with the story, and the guy whose life was on display is a friend of a friend. Anyhow – each time I’ve heard it the story has mutated a little bit. It’s only a matter of time until we start hearing that the Visor had nuclear secrets on it or something like that.
I have quite a few
famous friends and acquaintances – some of them too famous to mention for fear that someone would get the wrong idea. I don’t know if it qualifies her as “famous” but I’m really happy to see an old high school (and since, on and off) friend’s article as the top story at Slate today.
I came across
a very interesting site through Derek Powazek‘s site this evening: CommunityZero. Anyone can set up a free online community for their friends, for a project, whatever. Many of these have come and gone in the past, but none quite as well executed as this one seems to be. I may play with it soon – as a long-time online community guy, it has been a goal of mine to merge this site with a series of discussions at some point.
Famous dates in Marxian
history, part I: On November 16 1842, Marx first met Engels at the offices of Rheinische Zeitung in Cologne, where Marx was an editor. They would become friends two years later when they met again in Paris, following which they became life long collaborators.
Marx, edited by Engels: […] “the human essence is no abstraction inherent in each single individual. In its reality it is the ensemble of the social relations.” (Theses on Feuerbach, 1845).
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