Red Wheelbarrow

Starbucks

It’s as if I felt a great disturbance in the force (caffeine), as if millions of voices cried out at once and were suddenly silenced.

I like Starbucks. I realize some in the coffee consuming community thinks their coffee tastes too burnt, and that millionaire television pundits think anyone who drinks there is an “elite”, and not as touch with the common man as a pundit in a limo might be, but I like them nonetheless.

Add comment July 1st, 2008

Happy Canada Day

July 1st is Canada day, they day we all give thanks they decided to not put a beaver on our flag.

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Mistakes unpublished?

If you make a mistake on the Internet - or a decision you regret - you can sort-of take it back. But with Google cache and a million monkeys blogging out there, people will certainly notice if you go back and delete old posts. The usually critical of opacity site, Boing Boing, “unpublished” a blogger named Violet Blue (more or less NSFW website, depending where you work) silently. Folks noticed, and they finally responded with their reasoning. Fair enough, but I have always hated the idea of unpublishing especially on a blog. If you might take a blog for a book, it’s like removing a book from all existence that’s already been footnoted in other books. I think they should have said they are not publishing Violet’s stuff in the future, even if they declined to say why. At most, put a disclaimer on all posts related to her on their blog. By not telling us why, it makes me think there’s some pragmatic motive, like an attempt to make the whole site more purely PG-13 with an eye to commercial interests in the future, but no one outside of the people there would know.

Update: Good theory here (near the bottom, as an update to the post).

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