Monday, March 3, 2003|
The gush for Six Feet Under, which began with a friend extolling its virtues at the gym last fall,
continues to intrigue me. From Saturday's Globe and Mail: "Maybe it's the way every episode of Six Feet Under effortlessly shifts from broad comedy to serious, emotional drama and back again; maybe it's the way drug use is subtly woven into the show (marijuana: good; ecstasy: caution; joints dipped in embalming fluid: very bad); maybe it's how the stories play off the viewer's personal fear of death, which is sometimes more horrifying than any of the bloody violence in that other critically acclaimed drama, The Sopranos; or maybe it's the way a show set in a funeral home becomes a show about life" 1:09:16 PM | permalink | Bare your teeth [] |
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Now this is cool. It turns out I'm running to represent New York City in Congress. Not bad for a Canadian, eh? 1:01:51 PM | permalink | Bare your teeth [] |
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Wired:
The Real Shopping-Cart Revolution
"It is true that most famines today have political causes. It is true that the cause of remaining famines is not that food production is insufficient but that the hungry have no land and no income, and if you have no income the market economy doesn't care whether you live or die." 9:16:06 AM | permalink | Bare your teeth [] |
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Usable Help:
Exploring embedded Help
"If Help is made inseparable from the user experience it might finally stop being mere 'documentation'". 8:40:24 AM | permalink | Bare your teeth [] |
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Gerry McGovern:
Why content management software hasn't worked
"Content management software hasn't worked because it was badly designed and massively over-hyped. Software companies lied about their products, charging criminal prices for crap software. It hasn't worked because organizations didn't understand content. They wanted a quick fix. They issued specifications that bore little relation to what they actually needed." [Via elearningpost] Or maybe it hasn't worked because, like knowledge management, it's an oxymoron. Or perhaps because "content" is such a vague a word that no one knows what managing it would look like. Here's the punchline, though: organizations are able to write and publish effectively "because they have excellent editors and writers, and because they have well-defined, well-policed publishing processes and policies". 8:15:27 AM | permalink | Bare your teeth [] |
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