Caterina points to an interesting article in The Atlantic this month. I’ve had many an argument about this with people in Canada who lamented the arrival of Chapters. I love an indie bookshop as much as the next person, but at the same time, the big boxes are much better than they are reputed to be by the nay-sayers. I know my friends who self-publish, or my friend who has a little publishing house, seem to like Chapters just fine. They can get stocked there more easily than in the small shops, no matter how great a particular small shop might be.
The opening ceremonies
of any sports event really sucks. How on earth did anyone decide that making up some lame, watered-down “myth” and acting it out with thousands of people wearing spandex (and usually with faux-native drums of some sort) over the course of a couple of hours could be a good idea? They usually border on the offensive, in fact, when they’re not simply embarrassing.
Sunday in Montreal
features the 2001 Divers/Cit parade, aka the Pride parade. In Montreal, as in few other cities, this is an event for the whole city. It’s one of my favourite events of the year – for most of my friends as well.
Not much more to say
: Bruce Perens on Dimitry Sklyarov and is arrest, and the issues underlying the imperfections in the DMCA.
I love a good rant
: The Talking Moose tells some more truth: “when you run a business by the spreadsheet, you deserve all the hell that you get.” A lot of interesting stuff about content, the place of content developers (aka writers and people like that) and the web.
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