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the original web addiction.

digaman — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 18:35:46 -0800

"A fish, a barrel, and a smoking gun" -- ground zero of Web irony, Blog 1.0, the Picassos of the deflating hyperlink, Suck.com rocked. This is their history, as told by the promisingly named Matt Sharkey at keepgoing.org. (Suck's ex-editrix Cox is Wonkette and Terry Colon's art is everywhere. And God knows we could use a good Suck right about now.)

MiguelCardoso — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:21:49 -0800

The Ancient Library Of Alexandria: Its long-awaited re-opening has been postponed, supposedly because of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. So it seems the age-old dream of historians and poets everywhere(Jorge Luís Borges comes to mind)will have to wait a bit longer... I wonder, though, if Egypt's ever-stricter censorship laws and practices will ever be compatible with a true, universal library such as, by most accounts, the original Alexandria Library was.[Via Nutcote]

endquote — Sun, 30 Sep 2001 18:57:59 -0800

Anyone else remember Wired's theory of The Long Boom from 1997? I guess they were wrong.

bregdan — Tue, 19 Jun 2001 15:20:55 -0800

Talk is cheap Coming soon: 50-90% off. Discuss (in English).