minding my own business when I passed by Peter Merholz’ site and found this link to a really fun site on McLuhan: McLuhan TV – Where Marshall McLuhan’s Words Come to Life. Cool. And in the spirit of sharing, I’ll link to Arthur Kroker’s excellent (and very densely packed) article, Digital Humanism: The Processed World of Marshall McLuhan.
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Good news
from the Digital Divas.
Do you think
you will ever be able to do super- or subscript in html without totally screwing up the leading of a line of text in a graf? We publish medical materials, in which there a lot of super- and subscript elements in a line. And unless we totally fudge it there’s no way to do this well in html. With or without CSS. I held out hope that the line-height attribute would be smart enough to allow it to work. But of course it isn’t.
Among the honourary
pallbearers at Trudeau’s funeral today were Castro, Jimmy Carter, and Leonard Cohen. What an amazing cross-section.
The dirty secret
of the end of my summer was that I watched a lot of Big Brother. It was fascinating – a complete and utter failure in a dozen or more ways. Bill Wyman wrote a good wrap-up, Reality flops, in Salon. But the reasons for the show’s failure might be more basic than that. Go back to Alexis de Tocqueville – he called it. There has always been a tension in North America between the lip service paid to individualism and the dictates of the group. Big Brother just served as evidence that this tension continues to exist. It was all about punishing anyone who stepped out of line, who distinguished her- or himself in any way. It was like the houseguests were in a trench – as soon as one of their heads popped up, wham, it was lopped off by the North American public. Truly pathetic.
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