Michael Boyle — Page 439

After all this time

November 21, 2000 by Michael Boyle

I’m still occasionally amazed at what I can find on the internet. This extended report on the situation in the Middle East, called Middle East: the faultline from Le Monde diplomatique is a good example of that happening. Primary texts, analyses, maps – almost anything you need to know about the past few years in that area of the world.

Aaron put it well

November 20, 2000 by Michael Boyle

Aaron put it well: “There is still a god.” OK, maybe not. But the thorough housecleaning for the Habs is evidence of something good, and long overdue.

I came across

November 19, 2000 by Michael Boyle

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.

Gotta love Montreal

November 17, 2000 by Michael Boyle

! In other cities people complain about Christmas starting too early. In Montreal people do something about it – they organize, plan, scheme… no idle chatter here. Uh, OK, it’s completely ridiculous, doing things like smearing shop windows with baby oil in protest. But we’re an activist city – we won’t take serious matters like decorating for Christmas too early lying down! The outrage of it all! [embarrassingly, this was found via Swallowing Tacks]

I almost missed

November 16, 2000 by Michael Boyle

Steven Johnson’s additional comments about his Times piece, Go With Fuzzy Logic, in Feed’s ‘Loop’ discussion area. Due to an ampersand in the URL I can’t make the direct link, but head on over and take a look. “According to Florida election officials, punch card machines had 32 errors per 1,000 votes, while the OpScan devices had only 2. As I said in the piece, the real question is: which counties are using punch cards, and which are using OpScan.”