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Remaindered Links (after Kottke)...

Posted April 5, 2003 10:38 PM.

Ok. So I'm back in London and I'm struggling to get back up to speed with what's been going on in my absence. It's terrifying how much can happen in a week. It's terrifying how behind you can feel... Keeping hold of that sensation - where you're actually riding the crest of the meme-stream is becoming an ever more difficult way of passing the time...

  • Debates of Artistic Value in Rock Music: A Case Study of the Band Weezer, 1994-2001
    A shameful confession - I haven't read this yet. Normally I make it a bit of a point of honour to read everything that I post up here. I won't post it unless I've read it. But this is really long...
  • What's wrong with Dorian's Eye?
    So I took a picture of my friend Dorian's eye. He works next to me. He'd put in eye drops. I put the picture on my site. Ha! Ha! Very funny! Suddenly - months later - there's a huge online discussion about why his eye's all like that. Everyone's taking it very seriously. Kind of strange.
  • The Weblog Revolution
    Meg Hourihan brings everyone up to speed on this whole "Weblog" thing in one of the most concise and clear introductions I've read.
  • Whitelabel.org / UpMyStreet.com
    After a discussion last week between lots of cool fun people at UMS, the people who are allowed near the code-base put Geo URL metatags into every page on the site. I've not really got a clear sense of what people out there might do with this information, but I'm quite looking forward to finding out...

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