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| Monday, June 11, 2001 |
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Next in the series, Egalité pour le Net 
| | JY wrote to kindly point out some broken links, plus the fact that he was reading the French translation of The Cluetrain Manifesto (Liberté pour le Net — Manifeste Cluetrain: la fin du train-train des affaires) on the tram this morning. I just notices that, for some reason, I'm listed in the French Amazon site as "Doey Searls." |
| | This seems to be France Day here. I was on the phone earlier with one of the guys from Open Country, a commercial open source start-up, and it turns out he has a place in France as well as Redwood City. He also has my envy. I love France, even though I have a smaller French vocabulary than the average French toddler. Back in the mid-Nineties I did a bunch of work there and I still miss it. |
| | What's most interesting to me about companies like Open Country is that they see real commercial opportunities with open source, and are coming at development from the commercial side of the cultural divide. It's brave work and I wish them well. |
Say where?
| | Looks like I got Slashdotted a couple weeks ago. But... for what? I have no idea. The links are broken. I think the piece in question might have been this one. Or maybe this one. But I have no idea. |
Good shit
| | I'm always amazed to find that the pathology-to-be we might call Bloggalalia — the apparent need to talk about stuff while working on other stuff — somehow serves as inspiration for other people's equally inspiring perspiration. The latest evidence: Bubba Blog, which has the best discuss line I've seen yet. |
Dead ends
| | What creeped me out more than anything this morning was learning that Timothoy McVeigh's name would be added to the Oklahoma City bombing memorial. I heard a number of people talk about how this would "bring closure" to this "terrible episode" and "complete" the "tragic story" of the bombing McVeigh caused. |
| | Translation: we needed one more death. Here's how Bud Welch, whose daughter was killed in the bombing, put it back in June, 1997: |
| | There's been enough bloodshed where this fence now stands. We don't need to have any more. To me the death penalty is vengeance, and vengeance doesn't really help anyone in the healing process.... and... |
| | There are some other basic reasons why I'm opposed to executing him. First, it doesn't make any difference. The bottom line is that my little kid's not coming back. I'll have to deal with this till the day I die. Killing McVeigh will not change that. The second reason is that dead men don't talk. If he's in prison long enough, McVeigh may tell us what his thought processes were, why he did what he did, and who else was involved. I want to hear that information, even if comes out in the form of bragging. |
| | Vengeance doesn't heal. It just raises the numbers on one side of a balance sheet that only tallies pain. |
| | Forgiveness does heal. This is the single most difficult and important lesson taught by the rabbi Jeshua ben Joseph. Two thousand years later the good rabbi's followers, which included Timothy McVeigh and most of the people he killed, still have trouble making sense of it. |
jwz rlz
| | I think my standards have lowered enough that now I think ``good design'' is when the page doesn't irritate the living fuck out of me. |
Unclear
| | Jakob doesn't like .pdf as a screen format. Makes for bad reading, he says. Does this mean OS X will be ugly to read? I don't know. I do know that Apple uses a "PDF-based graphic architecture" in OS X. Guess I need to figure out exactly what that means. |
Using your Ev
Smart-ass tags
| | I didn't know you can put a metatag (so? what is it?) in browsers that will turn off Smart Tags in a user's browser. That's what I found out in the latest TDCRC Bulletin, which also says stuff about Zoroaster. |
Light goes on
| | I woke up at 5:04am and went to the TV to participate in the public execution of Timothy McVeigh. All the coverage was reverent, ponderous and resolutely abstract. None of the witnesses said "It was my job to watch the government kill a man this morning." |
| | At 5:40, while one of the witnesses tried to say something the prior four hadn't, Jeffrey showed up with an armload of stuffed animals. I followed him into our bedroom and we all went back to sleep together. |
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