"This article is a very nasty piece of work. Nastiness breathes from the commas and drips like Spanish moss from Wolf's fine sentences. Everything in the piece is contrived to promote disapproval rather than understanding. This hatchet job could be a textbook for a course in persuasive writing: every word, every detail has been chosen for its connotations of folly, decay, and despair rather than its accuracy or appropriateness.
The inaccuracies begin in the first sentence (there is no Marin Boulevard in Sausalito), but I will not chronicle them here; a partial list can be found at http://xanadu.net/wolfsbane"
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.09/rants.html
on Peter Flynn, who created the first broken link
Peter Flynn began the workshop with a talk entitled Now You See It ... Now You Don't [2]. Peter, who works in the Computer Centre at University College Cork (UCC) was Ireland's first Webmaster (and, incidentally, the person who was responsible for the world's first broken link, back in 1991!)
Shorpy is a photo blog about what life a hundred years ago was like: How people looked and what they did for a living, back when not having a job usually meant not eating. Brings our ancesters back, at least to the desktop. Named after Shorpy Higginbotha
Dream Anatomy shows off the anatomical imagination in some of its most astonishing incarnations, from 1500 to the present. We regard the anatomical body as our inner reality, a medium through which we imagine society, culture and the human condition.
EU directives on file sharing. According to some those directives give the right to european to copy files if they don't gain money from it (difference between lucro and profitto). In short it would permit p2p, provided you don't sell what you download.
The CIA and other federal agencies have secretly reclassified over 55,000 pages of records taken from the open shelves at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
I\'m declaring September 11 \"International Enough Day.\" Enough flag-waving, enough violence, enough nationalism. Enough already. September 11 was not an American tragedy, it was a human tragedy. It was a tragedy not just for the people in the US who die